Although not essential, read Book 2: Love in the Cupboard first for the best experience. If you also read Book 3: Love & Misdirection, so much more will be gained from the plot and characters.

Perdita glimpsed her reflection in the bathroom mirror. If she’d been attacked by an over-ripe tomato, she wouldn’t have appeared much different. But peering at her blotchy skin and swollen eyes was not going to help with either Setback Num-ber One or Setback Number Two. She splashed her face with water, smoothed down her brown bob and went back to the sofa to bury herself under her duvet and
think. The doorbell rang. It was too early for the post. Squeezing her eyes tightly shut,
she buried herself deeper under the bedding. But the doorbell pealed again. ‘Perdita?’ A male voice sounded through the letterbox. And she recognised it.
‘Perdita, we know you’re in there. We heard you moving about.’ Damn. What had happened to privacy? Although Luke and Gavin were the clos-