Ilar Robinson returns to Triesenbourg for an important event. He allows himself to become a honey trap to seduce a British diplomat. The Harlequin agrees to help and reveals that one of Ilar's cousins is secretly in love with him. Betrayal is in the air.
No sex. Lorcan settles into his new school and ventures into politics. He has a number of boyfriends, but is on one in particular that he has set his heart.
Very much attached to where he lives a young teenager has to come to terms with a move he does not wish to make and the pressures of being unusually gifted.
Ben Halpern the thief with ambition meets Marius for the final showdown. He wants to be Marius's partner in crime as well as Marius's Menial. Ben uses an audacious plan and his body to prove it.
A chance of reconciliation between Frazer and John begins well until John loses his nerve and too late tries to tell the truth about himself and the nature of his desire for Frazer. Feeling betrayed and angry, Frazer in new found contempt and hatred for John gives him what he craves. Heat broken John picks himself up and receives the addresses of an older man.
Battered and bruised from his encounter with Sidney Tate's thugs, Ben tells all to his dearest friend Frazer. But all he really wants to do is give his heart to Oliver. Frazer suggests a transport of delight.
Diffident John meets the mostly straight Frazer and finds himself pretending that he is straight. Reluctantly John soon finds himself publicly fucking an acquaintance and enjoys every minute. But it is the straight Frazer to whom he really wishes to give his heart.
A Life long relationship between two privileged friends as they prepare for university reveals secrets that only one of them knows about, but will have consequences for them both.