Gardner Fox

THE INTIMATE SECRETS AND FABULOUS LIFE OF THE MOST FAMOUS WOMAN OF ALL TIME!<P> What was Cleopatra really like? How did she gain the power to make men and break nations – to make herself the most beguiling symbol of sex the world has ever known? Here is a sweeping exploration of the secret life and many loves of Egypt&apos;s fabled queen—her affairs with the great Julius Caesar and the lusty Mark Antony… the slave boys and gladiators who served her private pleasures… the strange erotic...

Captured by Tripoli&apos;s Barbary pirates, Stephen Fletcher was first enslaved, then assigned to guard the Pasha&apos;s harem. Surrounded by sultry, sloe-eyed beauties whom he dared not touch under pain of torture, Fletcher lived only to escape – until he met lovely Eve Doremus. An American like himself, Eve had been bought by Marlani, the Pasha’s favorite, to bedevil Fletcher for rejecting her advances. Together, Fletcher and Eve fought their way through every temptation and indignity in their...

Queen. High priestess. Harlot. Huntress of men. She knew ways of love that no man could resist or forget. Kings and warriors were her slaves. Armies and empires threw their swords and their treasures at her feet. But it was never enough. No one man could satisfy her insatiable longings…

Men like Mike Gannon and Black John Bennett made their living off the Erie Canal, forever battling one another for control of canal shipping. <P> Women like Moira Kennally—the wanton widow turned Madam—and the Egyptian, owner of the notorious parlor The Golden Tassel—made their living off men like Mike and Black John, offering their passionate embraces in return for the hard-earned dollars the canalers wrested from «The Big Ditch.» <P> Together and apart they lived and loved in...