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

Noel was uncomfortable thinking about it. 'Your clothes had started smouldering. Your hair was on fire.'


She firmed her lip. 'I smothered them. Then I tried to get the other chap out, but he was stuck and ... it was too hot.' She rubbed her palms down her thighs. Her hands were small, the wrists delicate. Once, the skin would have been smooth and pale. 'The police said afterwards that he was already dead. His neck had been broken and he wouldn't have felt the flames. They said he couldn't have been wearing his seat belt.'


She came back to his face. 'I tried to get you further away from the fire but you weighed a ton. I didn't shift you very far.'


David could see the memory of it written vividly before him.


Chapter 25: An unsettling kiss