David can't believe it when he finds out that his less than perfect son has dumped his more than perfect girlfriend two days before Valentine's. When David secretly tries to make up for some of the unkind circumstance, things don't go exactly as planned, but hardly for the worse.
A "Delights" novel Part of the Kobekistan universe
The first of 12 books about life in a 21st century Arab country where the old laws of concubinage and slavery still apply. David Ransome has lived in England since he was four, and is a post-graduate student at Oxford University when his grandfather and uncle die, and he inherits the throne of the Emirate of Kobekistan. Read how an easy-going ordinary English young man is transformed by power into a cruel autocratic Emir who is capable of having an annoying concubine strangled.
Steve answers his stepmothers cellphone only to discover a message for Diane Darling. But his stepmother's name is Erica. Curious, he looks into this more - only to learn that his stepmother has been running a porn webcam!
A photographer faces his 50th birthday alone - or so he thinks until his niece shows up with her girlfriend. The party gets hot fast from there, and then his wife also shows up and joins in the fun.