From the cramped offices of Soho to the elegant bedrooms of St John's Wood, from the nude beaches of Spain to the green fields of Sussex, men and women are on fire, there's a fever in the blood, there's - Lust on the Loose. Deep in conference across his desk with saucy Patsy Fretwork, detective Billy Dazzle agrees to give her the incriminating photos he took of her gangster husband, Danny, misbehaving at a nude-bathing party. It's a decision that places him in a delicate position, not only with Dangerous Danny, now returned from an extended vacation on the Costa del Crime, but also with voluptuous policewoman Sophie Stark, a guardian of the law who'll do absolutely anything to get her man...

She's out there somewhere - a woman of mystery and menace, with a knock 'em dead body that's coining her the cash. The papers call her the Topless Raider and her victims just pray she'll come back and roll them over again... Assignments don't come any tougher than this - ice-cool detective Archie Monk has been handed the hottest case of the year. It's up to him to find the voluptuous blonde who has bared her all in building societies throughout the land - and made off with the money. Helping with enquiries is leggy journalist Robyn Chestnut. She's all mouth and no knickers but there's nobody better when it comes to grabbing exclusives. Together they team up to hunt down the red-hot robber and put where she belongs - back behind bras!

They're putting the male sex under the microscope, they're changing the way men think and act, they're pulling down the trousers of the male establishment. They are the cruel and beautiful mistresses of The Primrose Court and they're enforcing - Lust Under Licence. Disgraced tycoon Tom Glass lies in a hospital bed trying to recover his memory after a fall from his tenth-floor penthouse. His past envelops him in vivid erotic detail, leaving him in constant need of the tender mercies of his personal nurse. As for the present... Is he actually engaged to the silver-blonde TV weather girl who has an inventive way with his bedside equipment? Is it true his pretty but demure assistant is experimenting with a fitness regime founded on multiple orgasm? And - most significant of all - is his love-life really under investigation by the pneumatic jack-booted she-devils of the Sex Police?

Out of the red - and into the blue. Once-grand publishers The Whimsical Press are on their uppers but chief executive Miranda Lynch has a plan - to publish a line of bestselling erotic novels. So, if dreamy editor Lucian Swan wants to keep his job he'd better find some sexy books - fast. Though the world of the clitorati is new to Lucian, he soon gets to grips with lustful lady writers who believe in the value of hands-on research. There's angel-faced Karen Hastings, out to shaft everyone but her husband, and swivel-hipped Caroline Fitzjohn who redefines the meaning of editorial input - not to mention Marilyn Savage, the industry's most insatiable literary agent... Will Lucian pull it off? Will Blue Desire Books save the company's fortunes? And will Miranda's below-the-belt initiative bring home the coveted Baxendale Prize?