When left unchecked, under the guise of privilege, human morality can plunge into the abyss of decadence. To get out of the gutter and find someone who will be loved deeply not just treated like flesh that can be easily replaced isn’t an easy task. Some assistance in finding the right vehicle of escape will be needed.
Josephine Gaillard is a frivolous woman preoccupied with seducing young women. Surrounded by her privilege in South Carolina on the verge of the Civil War she can’t predict Josephine is bored and worried about wrinkles that started to adorn her forehead.
Belva Durant is a mixed breed in a divided world. She fell from privilege to poverty knowing both worlds. On the run from a Federal Marshal, she helps slaves escape their barracks conducting them up north to find safety.
When Belva barges into Josephine’s carriage with a pistol, their destinies will entwine. Does the gilded cage have a door to escape it through?
Ahmed is a married man. He’s committed to staying true to his faith and morality he’s trying to uphold his whole life of ascetic denial.
Vadim is the trader of sin. Whatever your kink is, he will find it, offering it for sale even if it is his own flesh.
The price of sin is high, but love, if we dare to call it that name, has a price of its own.
The two men lock eyes in a sauna and their paths are disjointed from their predestined paths.
Hendrika is a new widow who doesn’t grieve the loss of her husband. When her mother tries to get her married again, she finds refuge in her childhood home on Gaillard Estate where her mother was a housekeeper.
Thijmen Gaillard is a bachelor, the desirable kind, a rich heir, fairly handsome, but for some reason on the forbidden list, no one wants to take him in as a son-in-law.
The two childhood friends will reunite trying to figure out where their lives took the wrong turn and whether is too late to change gears.
