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

Standing, he placed the revolver next to the shotgun and raised his hands high above his head. Just in time. The four men were in the midst of deployment, all but Halley with lethal looking weapons. David stepped clear of the car, keeping his hands well up. They stopped. In tableau they eyed each other off.


'Whatever it is he's told you,' David called, 'it's a lie. He killed Nick.'


Halley said something quietly into the ear of Leonora's father.


'You just keep your mouth shut. It wouldn't take much to make any of us shoot.' Steven approached, his grey eyes glass, his knuckles white. Halley backed him up and the two remaining younger men closed on each side. David wasn't looking forward to them seeing Nick, chestless, behind the Jaguar. They formed a circle of anger around him.


David did, the iciness of Carrington-Chalmer's stare riveting. They moved as one to where they could view the evidence.


Chapter 71: An intruder revealed