It was supposed to be a simple first assignment, infiltrate a party of the young and powerful to find enough gossip to help revitalize a struggling newspaper. Inexperienced reporter Beth finds more than she bargained for and finds herself embroiled in a story beyond the gossip pages. Will she try to escape or will she do whatever it takes to break the story of a lifetime?
When 14-year-old Tom's family immigrates to Boston from England in 1804, Tom goes to a merchant ship as an apprentice sailor. A British frigate impresses sailors from the ship, however, making the small, young, blond, handsome Tom a cabin boy on the brig HMS "Raven," the duties of which include opening his thighs for the ship's officers and sailors. They change his name to Jamie and sail to the Barbary Coast, where Jamie, going on shore leave in Tripoli is taken into a male brothel
Mistress Agnes Fairchild is a pillar of the covert dominant women's society in Victorian London, a good friend and associate of Mistress Ella Hempleton, owner of Arachne House of correction for males. Agnes provides a service which allows her to indulge her dominance to the extreme, where the only way to correct certain males is a permanent solution. This spin-off from 'Ella's House' shows how her services are utilised in the disposal of a rapist, and the triumphal awakening of his victim
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.