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

Elisabeth reached out her hand. It hovered, trembling, over the sun-streaked hair of her little brother, then slowly descended to sit on his bowed neck. A heart-wrenching gesture: for Robert, still coming to terms with all that she had withheld; for the courtroom, subdued by the enormity of emotion they were witnessing; and for Ray and Julia, adoptive parents who loved their boy more than life itself.


And the judge? It wasn't often he presided over such an emotional ending. He let them have their moment before thanking the jury for their deliberations and dismissing them. The jury room door was barely closed before he was saying, 'Mr Richards, Miss Sharman, will you be ready to proceed with sentencing in two weeks?' To Elisabeth's mechanical 'Yes, your Honour,' and Thierry's echo, he said, 'Adjourn the court,' and was off the bench and through the rear door before anyone had time to think.


Chapter 83: The jury gives its verdict