Fourteen-year-old, homeless Santiago finds a home as a "giving privileges" mascot at a firehouse where all of the firemen are randy for fourteen-year-old boys.
After exposing a corrupt official and winning a major award, the quiet IT guy and photographer finds himself at the center of a company celebration. There he meets Livia — the magazine’s charismatic and stunning social media star. What begins as a surprising conversation slowly turns into an intense, chaotic, and unforgettable night filled with jealousy, rock music, honest confessions, and raw attraction.
By 1920, the Chinese authorities in northeast China's Manchuria respond to the vast influx of White Russian refugees flowing into the city of Harbin, escaping the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, by disenfranchising the refugees, making them nonpersons. They are on their own to thrive or die. Beautiful, small fourteen-year-old boy Pyotr survives by selling himself to an auction house serving men with a boy fetish and unusual sexual tastes.
A Learning Together Story Part of the Stories from the Hearth universe
John Patel's wife is at the bottom of barrel. Alcohol, drugs, and prostitution are consuming her. He doesn't want to leave. She's his high school sweetheart and he loves her as much now as he did then. How does he deal with it and take care of their six-year-old daughter? This is his story. Set in the Learning Together Universe, it takes place ten years prior to the rest of the series. Being it's in the Learning Together Universe there is spanking, of course. Caution: dark subject matter.