A crack army unit - the Special Marine Corps, consisting of five British and five American soldiers - is on a top-secret mission to investigate and, if necessary, eliminate, an illegal private army on a tropical island in the mid-Atlantic. Tony is one of the British soldiers, and this is his first proper action.What the tough, hard soldiers find out when they investigate the island is that their enemies don't shoot them with bullets. They have discovered a powerful weapon, the Pheromone Bomb, which produces a gas - and anyone affected by the gas is filled with irresistible homoerotic urges. Tony and his best mate Mervyn are among those who escape the initial disastrous encounter with the island's private army, but what are they going to do with an enemy who with a blast of his secret weapon can turn lifelong confirmed heterosexuals into helpless, rampant homosexuals?

Lisa Sherwin is a young and spirited fine-arts graduate. She has her own flat, a small but expanding antiques business and a healthy interest in sex. She is due to marry her wealthy, rugby-playing fiancé, Paul, in a matter of weeks but as the day draws closer she's having second thoughts, especially as he wants her to give up work and sees her sexual needs as unimportant.

The rural English village in which they live is home to some eccentric and bohemian characters including the passionate and cultured David Maccabene, who introduces Lisa to new ways of thinking and kinky ways of loving. In a bid to escape the stuffy conservatism of Paul's overbearing family, Lisa seeks satisfaction and help from her new-found friends. She manages this with alacrity, outraging her future in-laws and finding talents she never knew she had.

By the best-selling author of Country Matters.