Emotional manipulation, sexual exploitation, and attempted gang rape are Dirk's lot as he travels to California Seeking Zeke, the sequel to Soaring with a Hawk and Missing Aaron. Dirk abandons his pioneer family's farm after a scandal involving sex with his class mate Jonas who used Dirk's adolescent attraction to Zeke to blackmail the young blond farmer into providing sexual favors. Once in San Francisco and finally free of Jonas' malevolent influence, Dirk learns about love and betrayal from Pete. Realizing that sex didn't necessarily entail love, Dirk has satisfying interludes with Red and Ling before encountering a gang of drunken rowdies looking for sex--willing or not.