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

Then it was back to the courthouse, still in full regalia, running the gauntlet of reassembled media who trailed behind after the initial fairly well-mannered onslaught, noses twitching. Watching anxiously by the doors were the Montgomery's with Adele Constantine and, a short distance apart, the Stavros', mother, son, and daughter. Ray and Julia converged on Elisabeth, faces betraying their anxiety.


'We have another witness,' Robert told them. Julia's face flared with hope but the light extinguished with Robert's next words. 'It might help get the lesser charge.'


'Yes,' Elisabeth said. To subject yourself to it, she could have added. They mustered back behind the bar table while the sheriff's officer regrouped the court, Mary Eleni in the witness box, Russell in the dock. Thierry and David Crombie were at the bar table, Thierry sitting patiently, Dave alive with ill-concealed curiosity.


Chapter 78: An unexpected witness