Matt Williams, a shy and talented teenage photographer, has always felt like an outsider in the world of sports at Jamestown High. But behind the lens, he sees everything—and someone. While the rest of the school cheers for Ricky Forrester, the basketball star, Matt is drawn to someone in the stands: Ricky’s mother, the elegant and alluring Mary Forrester. A quiet obsession begins to grow—captured in stolen moments, lingering glances, and secret photographs.
The Cairo, Egypt, of the 1920s is a wide-open city for the varied sexual preferences of men seeking men or boys. Ali Selim Pasha is a notorious despoiler of older boys, and when fourteen-year-old handsome blond American fortune heir David Ames arrives to visit King Tut's tomb, Ali is only one of several men anxious and prepared to debauch him. Ali is the first one to snatch and imprison him, though, and to weave an atmosphere of want around the boy to prepare him for his first time.
In a terrible car crash, college professor Sam loses the love of his life, his wife Lila. Disabled by the impact, he must learn how to navigate for himself, with the help of a beautiful new friend, who is herself in a wheelchair. Her whole life has been celibate, not by choice. Being in the chair makes her sex-invisible, she believes. Will that be Sam's fate, as well? (Revised 2/22/2023)