After losing her mother years ago, Katie becomes a sexual rebel to get her father's attention back. Once the extreme outside the house doesn't work. She decides it's time to work on him directly instead.
Miranda is not the stick insect so venerated by fashion houses. A lifetime of teasing by her younger associates leaves the delectably plump girl resigned to being an also-ran, till the cruel taunts of an arrogant male alerts an older women to her situation. Miranda is taken under her wing and that of her mature friends, and learns how to become very desirable - and get exactly what she demands from males, especially the one who brought her to light. He is also taught how to respect women.
Kalina and her twin sister Emily are stranded on a deserted Isle with the only other survivor of a shipwreck. Mr. Donovan teaches them both the ways of the world without any fancy talk. Soon, fate has her stranded alone and she is suddenly confronted by a shipload of Pirates looking for booty. She witnesses their rough treatment of two female prisoners, mother and daughter, and sees them all depart leaving only the young daughter crying on the beach. Now she must comfort the young girl.
The rumors of wild orgies at Lady Templeton's "Little Dinner Parties" had seemed far-fetched to Harold. At least until the night he decided to attend in person.
In the first in a series of the prostituting of the fourteen-year-old Gabriel in the Europe of the 1930s, Gabriel is initiated and put to use by an Austrian baron industrialist in Tangiers, Morocco.