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

He didn't bother tidying; the ransacked office would be his calling card in case the first had been missed. The need for secrecy was over. He shouldered the bag and made his way out.


'You've had a more profitable night tonight by the look of it.'


'I hardly recognised you. Very becoming. I'll take the bag.'


David denied him the opportunity. Even as Donaldson spoke reflexes had him behind a stack of cane furniture and tipping it on them as he sped for the rear entrance.


'Cut him off,' he heard Donaldson hiss and changed his route as he saw Halley flit past. He'd go for the front. It all went quiet. Treading soundlessly on the balls of his feet, hearing ranging close and distant, holding his breath so it wouldn't interfere, David revolved slowly around the aisles.


Chapter 56: Sidestepping being shot