The kagaijin are a race of people who share a common ancestor with modern man, but took a different evolutionary path - a stronger one, in most respects. Prince Tsuyoken is their newest king in training, but every king needs a queen, and he has his sights set on one.
This is a story in the Collar Club.
Caresse's job performance is falling lately, and her boss, Romain, takes charge of the situation. That is true in her private life as well as work.
Rob and Jane are the senior class brainiac nerds, and also the victims of a cruel competition devised by the football jocks and their cheerleader girlfriends. Rob doesn't fare too badly in the competition - his manhood sees the cheerleaders having second thoughts about him. Jane, on the other hand, gets hurt badly by one of the football jocks. Rob and Jane are thrust together to work on a project, and they become closer due to their shared experiences....much closer and intimate.
Fourteen-year-old "wild boy" Charlie put the welfare of his dog, Ace, above all else. So, it was good that, when Ace was hit by a car, they were close to the house of a vet and his boyfriend who would take something other than cash to attend to Ace's wounds.
In July 1941, journalist (but really military intelligence agent) half English-half Burmese Gordon is dispatched to Burma to convince the artist who deflowered him at age fourteen and set him into having the fetish too to return to England to work on the war effort. The artist is in Burma because there are easy boys there and he tries to convince Gordon to stay. Gordon indulges in his old fetish and is also pursued by a Japanese sadist.