How did the Marquise & Valmont first meet ? What made their love so dangerous ? The answers lie in this discovered manuscript – --Dangerous Liaisons: The Prequel. Lost for 250 years, here are the very first letters which passed between the young Marquise-to-be and the young Vicomte de Valmont. These reveal the beginnings of their dangerous attraction, their posturing, their powerplay. Here also are the letters of their friends, foes and family: characters who fight to assert control over the young Marquise-to-be and Valmont. The key to Sophie, the Marquise-to-be lies here: why she disdains to live by the rules of society of the 'ancien regime', why she throws off the constraints placed upon her sex, why she seeks control over the young male libertines who surround her –--including the Vicomte de Valmont. As her private letters unfurl, it becomes clear that not all predators are men: ---‘[I was] born to avenge my sex and to dominate yours’ Les Liaisons Dangereuses: Letter 81. Review: Dangerous Liaisons: The Prequel (Volume I) is wonderfully accomplished. Stylistically it's elegant, diverse and rich…this is the bottom line - it's a really good story. (John Taylor – BBC Radio 4 producer of multiple adaptations including Proust and C.S. Lewis). --Dangerous Liaisons: The Prequel (Volume I) is the first in a trilogy and is a stand-alone novel of 73,000 words