Police officer Todd Keenan is as straight as they come.  He lives his life carefully, never wanting scandal or anything unsavory to be connected to his name.  The fact that he is attracted to his neighbor Erin Brown makes him unsettled – she is everything he is not.  Erin is confident and sexy, but Todd can’t get past her seemingly nomadic and laissez faire attitude.  However, Todd isn’t honest with Erin or with himself as he ends their steamy and erotic relationship.  That single decision proves to be the biggest mistake Todd has ever made in his entire life. 

After ten years Todd has finally returned to the town that started it all and he finds Erin a changed lady.  The beautiful and blatantly sexual woman he left behind is nothing like the Erin he finds working in a coffee shop.  One thing is still the same – Todd desires her just as much and he aims to prove that he is the man for her.  Convincing her to trust him again will take some time.  Add in the unexpected help from his best friend Ben, and Todd finds out exactly what it means to be Laid Bare. 

Todd and Erin’s relationship is based on what happened between them years before and the horrible tragedy which happened to Erin before Todd’s return.  Love is a matter of trust and Todd definitely has his hands full with Erin, that’s for sure.  Burned once by the man she loved, Erin wasn’t about to give him ammunition to hurt her a second time.  I can’t say that I blame her, but I am glad that she was putty in Todd’s hands because her capitulation was just that much sweeter.  Add in Ben’s presence to this erotic contemporary and I was in reader heaven.