Fourteen-year-old Stephan swims like a fish and looks like a Michelangelo statue as he plays in the sea off the Lido di Venezia beach in Venice in 1924. As he stretches and dries off on the sand, he is ogled by expatriate American banker Jeremy Biddle, German doctor Reinhard Gleason, English patrician Sir Clarence Hailley, and French priest Father Franz. Each of the men aches in want for the boy and each of them has him--but at a price.
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.
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.
After being kicked out of his own house by his estranged wife Jill, Jack Jackson is now offered a chance to move back in there. In so doing, nothing will ever be the same for either of them or their lovers.
Margo is close to 50 and although I'm only 24, she is the one woman I aim to make my own; because I have a score to settle with my Dad. And so I make a Dinner Date for Two at an out of town venue that plays soothing dance music. But will it work when taboos are rife and passion wild? Who knows?
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.
What would have happened if Hitler had been a little more lucky? What would life have been like in the UK under German occupation? Especially, what would have happened to the more attractive of the women? Most of the action takes place in 1947. Germany won the war. Belgium, France, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and Spain are all part of Greater Germany and are effectively provinces. The UK is still occupied by the German army.
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.