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

David took his turn in front of the mirror. She was right. If he had the bad luck to run into anyone he knew they would know him instantly. He was no longer a pallid, thin invalid; but then the people he had known didn't frequent the southern suburbs. He grabbed a hat and sunglasses and tossing his keys ran down the stairs to catch up with Noel who was waiting, as promised, and wove behind her in the moderately heavy traffic, keeping her in sight as they drove through the suburbs, and pulling in behind her onto a concrete driveway just as Noel's aunt appeared from the house to hug her tight and beam, while over her shoulder eye with interest the unexpected suntanned length of a crookedly smiling male. Setting Noel aside with open curiosity she said, 'Noel, is this young man with you or have you both just arrived together coincidentally?'


Chapter 38: Little white lies