The lives of two fugitive brothers of successive Phoenician kings become entwined in the villa of the Greek philosopher exile Phaedo, where one fugitive is Phaedo's fourteen-year-old catamite, Hiero, and the other, Prince Xander, brother of the current Phoenician king, is a hidden guest. Hiero and Xander's lives as sometimes lovers continue to intersect over the years of trying to gain the throne.
A young English gentleman takes his valet and bedmate to sea with him as personal cabin boy during the Seven Year's War between England and France. Their ship, the "Essex," sinks in the battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759. The gentleman is lost and the boy takes shrapnel to the head, causing amnesia, but is saved and sent back for surgery and recuperation at Longford Castle. Here, various men discover the boy's talents in bed and use him as the boy slowly regains his memory.
Brad is a respectable forty-year-old banker in the circus wintering town of Peru, Indiana, but he has a hankering for young men. He's working, in postwar 1949, on a scheme to "adopt," with fake papers, one of three boys he covers from a German male brothel, when, in Peru, he happens to come onto a knife-thrower's assistant, Alfonso, who has tried to drown himself in the Wabash River.
In the mystical warring Greek city states era in the prerecorded mists of time, princes schemed for kingdoms and kings schemed for consolidation of kingdoms in a convoluted maze in maze activity of epic proportions. Fourteen-year-old Nikon is a minor prince faced with scheming to stay alive no less than in becoming king. In epic style this is his story of journeying through this labyrinth.
For Halloween: Twice yearly in the late 18th century, the choir master of Munich Cathedral, in Bavaria, Otto Strickler, takes a coach up to Castle Ringang in the perpetual shadow of the Alps to collect a large donation from the patron, the forever forty-year-old Baron Derick von Obertstdorf. Each time the baron requires Strickler to bring an unsullied fourteen-year-old boy angel with him for the night. It's handsome, blond, boy treble soloist, and orphan Jan Becker's turn.
A fourteen-year-old American student, traveling alone, comes under the sway of a Japanese military officer and vastly expands his sexual experience on the night train from Aomori to Tokyo in 1940.
In 1821 Dorchester, gullible but well-endowed Barnaby marries the seductive older widow Delilah. What starts as eager nightly passion turns into cuckold delight when he spies her "fortune-telling" sessions — riding naked gentlemen for coin. Instead of fury, Barnaby grows rock-hard watching. But when his rival Colm claims her too, jealous lust leads to one ball-shattering, scandalous climax. A filthy Regency tale of naive passion, slut wife betrayal, and sticky revenge.
Anne was known as "Red" Anne because she had flaming red hair and her question of paternity was an unknown factor. Her mother died in childbirth and the daughter was a Tomboy with no time for frivolous pursuits.