Love doesn't knock on your front door every day, but boy when it does...

Gary Lucas, London's top lawyer and the estranged son of a mafia boss, has been in love with the same woman sine they were children. Now, Bells is divorced and heading towards his safe, isolated life like a hurricane.

In this steamy prequel to the 'Lay Me Bare' series, readers are invited to go way back in time and fall deeper.

L M Allen is the best selling author of steamy and suspenseful romance. She lives in a manic house with three teenagers and two dogs. There is never five minutes peace and she wouldn't have it any other way.

'I'd only get bored. It's probably the ADHD.'