"Martin is a kind, decent, good-looking man. And look where it's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His best friend John is too busy looking for sex on the Internet to offer support, and anyway, he prefers infamy to sympathy. Martin's other best friend Caroline is keen to help but she has her own problems: she's convinced her boyfriend is a closet case. And to top it all, Martin's sweet but exhausting hippie father turns up, wearing his 'Proud to be an Embarrassing Parent' badge. Grim." "So Martin does what every out and proud gay man in London is encouraged to do: he jumps head first into hedonism. He joins a gym, and throws himself into the gay club scene, a world of drugs and muscles, hard bodies and harder music. Meanwhile Caroline is learning that being Shameless has its price, and so does she. How long can they keep up with the lifestyle? And can they find the man of their dreams when sex has become a substitute for love, and pleasure is measured in beats per minute?" --Book Jacket.