Living in the British Virgin Islands is a great help to British banker Robert Duncan, whose sexual fetish is robbing fourteen-year-old boys of their virginity. The natives are willing to lay down for him for money. Fourteen-year-old blond angel Jimmy, who is visiting his divorced and remarried mother, is looking for help to gain favor with the randy upper form boys at Eton. Robert is willing, but he's in a race with Jimmy's stepfather for the honors.
Sex with the wife has grown boring and stale. An encounter with the next door neighbor sends a man into a journey into a world he never dreamed of entering.
Bounty hunter Jacob Harding tracks down an escaped slave, fourteen-year-old Nat, from a Virginia plantation. He wonders why the plantation owner is offering such a high fee to get Nat back, but after Harding encounters the boy and finds out how he can be used, he doesn’t wonder anymore.
The setting is Zimbabwe in the mid 1980s, when the whites are being pushed out by a new black ruling class and the land is still lawless, the police more lawless than the rest. A Shona tribe police chief in central Zimbabwe wants fourteen-year-old European boys. The Whitfelds, trying to hold onto their dairy outside Gweru, have a fourteen-year-old blond foster boy, one who already is tasting sex from black men and craves more. The Whitfelds's answer to being able to stay on is an obvious one.
Twenty-year-old art magazine writer Phillip is sent to the Philippines to write a feature on an artist who initiated him at fourteen and who had to leave the States because of his interest in teen boys. Phillip finds that interest hasn't lagged in the Philippines.
Elian, having survived a boat trip from Cuba to Florida that his parents didn’t survive, has gone to an aunt in Miami. She sends him to her estranged husband, Duardo, in Islamorada Key for the summer to work on Duardo’s charter boat. Duardo also has a gay bar and initiates Elian to serve men there. Elian is pulled into more sinister work on the charter boat, though.
An American novelist is in Berlin, Germany, researching his next book at the state library. He has visited Germany before to feed his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys, fourteen being the age of consent in Germany. He is trying to curb that fetish, though, and has come to Berlin this time solely to research. He has to walk through a park where homeless boys lurk, though, to get to the library. Temptation rears its head.
A newly arrived fourteen-year-old military academy cadet meets a randy redneck night fisherman in a truck by a lake where the cadet has been dumped, nearly naked, in a hazing ritual.