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.
An author of teen (and sex) novels, photographer of sexy men and boys, and connoisseur of fourteen-teen-year-old boys sees an older man who arouses him and finds a fourteen-year-old version of him on an Internet dating site. The inevitable, with a quirk, results.
At fourteen, handsome, sunny, blue-eyed, and handful Ron is very much ahead of his times. He has already dabbled in trouble most don't contemplate before getting out of their teens, and he even has gotten familiar with alcohol. He is shipped off to an uncle in Singapore, but he hasn't finished learning life ahead of his time yet. In Singapore he finds his way to the House of Perfect Bliss and its procurer, Jun Lee.
Sex and politics by wise and erotic metaphors of collections (veneries) of animals
While a collecton of crows is a murder, a set of owls is a parliament. That seems most appropriate for a group of wise people who influence politics, and help Hal correct his unfortunate virginity. Getting rid of it, and nurturing him along with the other owls, makes for a happy band of brothers and sisters, moving the political stables in the best of directions.
After 20 plus years of marriage Alan is frustrated with a wife who has lost interest in sex and refuses to accommodate his erotic desires. One day in a big traffic jam he performs a generous act of kindness for a strange and beautiful woman and reaps rewards far beyond his wildest dreams.
'Probationary' Constable Kelly O'Rourke was the harbinger of a change at the suburban 'Uniform Branch' at Flemington - the young blonde was the first policewomen to work 'General Duties' and that was really something! Joined by her former 'roomie' from the Glen Waverley 'Police Training Academy' and another blonde, Kelly intends to carve out a niche for female police officers...though not quite as Chief Commissioner 'Mick' Miller and the 1977 Equal Opportunities Act may have intended in 1980
Prequel to 'How Does Your Garden Grow...?' Senior Constable Rosemary 'Rosie' Egan wanted to carve out a niche for herself at Mount Thomas, but she didn't plan on what would happen when she investigated Savannah Hamilton-Smythe...?