Dirk Hessian: 19 books

“Deliver a Virgin” takes the reader back in time to the Fourth Crusade period of the early thirteenth century, when a Saracen chieftain, Umar ibn al-Hakam, is smitten by Edward d’Ibelin, the third son of a European prince, who he has spied in the nude in a Syrian lake, and offers a fortune in...

One of the mysteries of the American Civil War is what happened to the Confederacy’s treasury in the waning days of the war. In this novella paralleling actual events, hunky Confederate cavalry officer and aide to President Jefferson Davis, Charles Singleton, is literally caught with his pants down...

The legendary Hotel Ritz Paris is a central character in its own right in this flawed lovers love story in which young American artist, Paul Stainer, is trapped in World War Two occupied Paris. Banished to Europe in 1940 by a wealthy Chicago family because of his gay hedonist lifestyle, nineteen-year-old...

The life of a male prostitute—a jinan—in the Floating World of the Beautiful Way in ancient China in the waning years of the Chu dynasty, 200 BC, was a sensual but cruel, often foreshortened, bitter-sweet existence. The term “clouds and rain” was one that was used to denote sexual orgasm....

When Ross Petigrew, the nineteen-year-old by-blow of an English earl, who has taken his handsome looks, sexual desirability, interest in men, and need for life support to a high-class London male brothel in the 1850s, has a chance encounter with his first master, Lord Dinwiddie, who has temporarily...