Elisabeth Sharman has a secret.
As a senior solicitor with the Australian Capital Territory Legal Aid Office she's defending a 19 year old with amnesia. He can't remember committing the murder for which he's on trial. Or says he can't.
Robert Murphy has a problem: Elisabeth.
He's her instructing solicitor and she's not playing by the legal rules. She's new to the office. No-one knows her modus operandi. But it's more, much more, than an unusual methodology.
She's using her feminine wiles with him - to good effect - and he's afraid her motives aren't pure.
Will the secret, when revealed, explain everything? Or will the result be catastrophic?
#mild sex, 13+
'A legal affair' is created by Alana Woods, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

A Legal Affair

It was a silent return journey but a not uncompanionable one. Their thoughts hovered around similar subjects, the variation resulting purely from point of view. To differing degrees they thought of Russell and his unshareable vigil. They thought of Thierry Richards - Elisabeth and Robert concerned with strategy, Elisabeth doggedly, Judy with recent revelations in mind. They hoped with fingers crossed that Mary Eleni would appear as summonsed; that, if there was a shield before Mrs Stavros, they could penetrate it; that there was a shield to penetrate; that at least one of the Stavros' would prove malleable.


The crossed fingers carried a large burden.


Detective Sergeant Phillip Milne was the next witness.


'The time difference, the money, the Stavros' behaviour,' Robert said, as though continuing an already begun conversation.


And as though she had been taking an active part Elisabeth replied, 'Yes.'


'Phil'll know what we're on about but he'll answer them as they come.'


Chapter 39: The voice of a Titan