In a recent FBI: Most Wanted episode, Kristin Gaines discussed when she was captured and tortured in the past. She told her ex-husband the scars on her back were not from a car accident as she told him previously. "Anything you can imagine they could do to me, they did." I took that as a challenge and imagined what she went through and wrote it down.
The lives of two fugitive brothers of successive Phoenician kings become entwined in the villa of the Greek philosopher exile Phaedo, where one fugitive is Phaedo's fourteen-year-old catamite, Hiero, and the other, Prince Xander, brother of the current Phoenician king, is a hidden guest. Hiero and Xander's lives as sometimes lovers continue to intersect over the years of trying to gain the throne.
The Umbra Viventem, beings of strange and incredible power live in this world. With abilities that defy all human understanding, a regular young boy will fall head-first into a world of living shadows when he finds a young girl alone in a box. Love, power, and pleasure await as he learns about this strange creature and why she is so sexy and cute.