Affairs of State

The President of the United States needs to kill the First Lady’s secret lover … and it’s not about sex.

Shock. Fear. Then determination.

When First Lady Elizabeth Caen overhears the President of the United States planning an assassination that will change history and threaten democracy itself, she knows she has to act. But with no hard evidence, her word won’t stand against her philandering, abusive husband and the powerful sect that is secretly pulling the strings of government. She’s forced to turn to the only man she can trust, her secret lover.

Owen Richter isn’t your ordinary computer criminal. By day, he hides in the guise of a respected computer scientist, known throughout Silicon Valley as the go-to man when others give up. But by night, he’s a hardened hacker extraordinaire, making millions breaking into corporate networks to expose dirty secrets, then riding the stock-price collapse all the way to the bank. He prefers his women hot and married – after an rollicking time in bed, married women give a sexy kiss and go home. No expectations. No commitment. And that’s what he wants. Owen gets the shock of his life at the first tryst with a new paramour when she reveals herself to be Elizabeth Caen, First Lady of the United States.

Determined to thwart the assassination, Elizabeth is forced to ask Owen for help. With Elizabeth’s complicity, he hacks into her husband’s private laptop computer looking for evidence of the assassination plot – and while he’s at it, of the president’s own philandering.

What they find is more shocking than they could have imagined.

Are Owen’s hacking skills a match for the President of the United States and his co-conspirators? When their hacking is discovered, Elizabeth and Owen flee to the high seas on Owen’s ocean-racing sailboat, hunted by warships, falling in love, and working feverishly to uncover the conspiracy before it’s too late.