Slut-shamed on the internet five minutes after losing her virginity at the age of 14 in the school toilets, Delphine carves out a career as a very high-class escort, determined that all men must pay, one way or another. This is the opening to Brass, a highly-charged erotic book about a beautiful 20-year-old's highly lucrative romp through her life, with all its ups and downs. She has a cold professional approach to her vocation, with all its deadly, brutal consequences of rape and ultimate humiliation. In the darkness of a hospital ward, Alex Godliman, a brilliant blind physiotherapist, fights for the life of a little girl stricken with cystic fibrosis, who catches covid. He uses controversial, unorthodox methods to fight for her life, which pits him against the National Health Service. Both these committed people have forgone love in the driven pursuit of their careers. Will they ever find it?.