Australian Affairs: Taken. Miranda Lee

       CHAPTER ONE

      MURPHY’S LAW STATED that if anything could possibly go wrong, then eventually it would.

      Jess did not subscribe to this theory, despite the fact that her surname was Murphy. But her father was a firm believer. Whenever anything annoying or frustrating happened, such as a flat tyre when he was driving a bride to her wedding—Joe owned a hire-car business—then he blamed it on Murphy’s Law: bad weather at the weekends; down-turns in the stock market. Recently, he’d even blamed the defeat of his favourite football team in the grand final on Murphy’s Law.

      Admittedly, her dad was somewhat superstitious by nature.

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