On a dark night in far north Queensland, Australia, a car runs off the road and bursts into flames. Driving closely behind Noel Valentine doesn’t hesitate to pull over and drag one of the occupants to safety. In rescuing David Cameron she has an inkling of what she may be setting in train, but no idea that one outcome will be a fight for her own life. His baggage includes a shady lawyer, traitors and money launderers.

Would she have saved him if she had known she would be facing sharks of the finned as well as the two-legged variety?

Her aim? Could it be to stay alive?

#mild sex, 13+

A complicated affair is created by Alana Woods, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.


A Complicated Affair

At 5.25 am barely discernible music commenced, mid-measure, in Noel Valentine's bedroom cum living room. It was enough to wake her, coverless, garmentless and sticky as she was. Coverless and sticky because the night had again been hot and close. Garmentless because it was one of the discovered joys of living alone and further because she enjoyed the privacy of a top floor bedsitter with the luxury of its own balcony and no neighbouring balconies or windows to inhibit her from being garmentless on a hot and close night when she slept with the curtains pulled back and the balcony door wide for any breeze that might stray her way.


Chapter 23: A swim and a meeting