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

The judge's head snapped up. Thierry Richards was heard to quietly explode 'What?' From the jury box came an audible rustling and murmur. From the back of the gallery an angry cry. And from Eleni Stavros there was a gasped, 'No,' as the interpreter doggedly translated on. The Canberra Times journalist was head bent over her notebook.


The judge rapped out a 'Quiet' to the courtroom generally and 'Constable, sit down or leave' to Antonio Stavros in the gallery.


As calmly and evenly as if uninterrupted Elisabeth continued, 'Mrs Stavros, was your husband your life, even though the beatings you received resulted in hospitalisation on at least six occasions?'


Eleni was now swinging her head from side to side, 'No, no.'


Elisabeth maintained the momentum. 'Were the beatings so severe that nine years ago in Melbourne, before moving to Canberra, you left him and laid charges against him? Did you take him to court?'


Chapter 58: A bombshell lands