Robert Clover, a devout Catholic, haunted by a shattered marriage and the shame of his own sterility, journeys to the Mediterranean island of San Jaime, where he hopes a miracle will cure his infertility. While there, he's befriended by Buck, a Canadian writer who is battling his homosexual yearnings by bedding any woman on the island he can find. Robert soon falls passionately in love with Nieves, a twenty-year-old housekeeper, and when she becomes pregnant, he believes his miracle has been granted...or has it? While Buck, unable to ignore his desires, falls for Paco, a local man, and is targeted for blackmail.
Here are 12 scorching novels of lust, adventure, crime, tragedy and romance by John B. Thompson, an under-appreciated author of sharply observant, brilliantly-written stories of the deep south in the 1950s & '60s. Unfortunately, his books were packaged and marketed as "sleaze" for their uncompromising explicitness. So his bold work fell into obscurity. Now they are back in print for the first time in over 60 years.
Kitty is happily married to a young, virile man...but she's never experienced a desire that scorches her from head to toe...or the great, body-shaking climax that other women have...... so she goes looking for it, a personal and physical journey that will change her life. 
Greenhill Police chief Buck Peters, the deacon of his local church, investigates the murder the "town tramp." The prime suspect is Kip Belton, the police commissioner, whose alibi is that he was with his wife, Lacey, at the time of the killing. There's just one problem with that story. Buck knows it's a lie...because when the murder happened, the Chief was having sex with Lacey in Belton's backyard. And that's only the beginning of Buck's problems. 
Honey is a young, mixed-race woman involved in a tempestuous romance with white boy. Together they discover that passion is color-blind...and dangerous. It's a frank story of love and hate, of generosity and selfishness, of tradition-bound Southerners caught up in a conflict of races, emotions and desires...told across two raw, edgy, novels: Honey and the sequel Love in Louisiana, back in print for the first time in over seventy years and combined into one edition.
Ivan Balin is a Chinese-Russian man who lives in Tokyo and dreams of moving to America. He is involved in heated affair with Faye Wilson, an intensely erotic, and intensely neurotic, American woman in Tokyo, but he also finds himself passionately drawn to Tamiko, a high-bred, Japanese beauty. Tamiko is skilled in the arts of love, but forbidden to practice them with men of other races -- until she decides that to win Ivan for herself, she must spirit him away to a mountain retreat and break every taboo she knows.