Life was becoming complicated in hiding his fetish for fourteen-year-old boys in Washington, D.C., so a music professor and symphony orchestra celloist moved to rural Bridgewater, Virginia, to avoid temptation. An invitation to mentor a fourteen-year-old violin prodigy at the Garth-Newel music center in the Allegheny Mountains, though, in addition to the charms of the son of a B&B owner, puts temptations squarely in the professor's path.
What would make a sophisticated, well-educated American man in his early thirties take a job running coffee and cinnamon plantations in rural East Timor for a Portuguese export house? It couldn't be because the age of consent for teenage boys there is fourteen, could it?
Includes Cover Illustration: Why are the raccoons digging in mom's flower garden? And why does she keep a food-blender in her bedroom. She's taken to prowling the neighborhood, at night, in her underwear. Is mom losing it– or is it because of something mommy saw?
She was a hermaphrodite. A thirty-year-old former 'Stripper' with vibrant burgundy-colored hair, who'd caused a sensation and joined the Victoria Police - desperate to carve out a niche for herself as a Policewoman, ‘Trainee’ Constable Sonya Campbell had found herself persona non grata at the Glenbervie Police Station in Melbourne leafy north-western suburbs. Sonya Rebecca Campbell had fallen foul of 'The Sisterhood' - the select cadre of lesbian and Bi policewomen at Glenbervie.
When Ethan refuses the body scanner at JFK, he expects a routine pat-down—not to be pulled behind a closed door by a commanding TSA agent with eyes like sharpened glass. In the hush beyond the terminal’s noise, she inspects him with clinical precision, blurring the line between authority and desire.