Handbook of Sea-Level Research. Ian Shennan

      She had heard Kevin Riordan boast that his son intended to run for City Council in this year’s local body elections, with an eye to contesting the Mayoralty some time in the future. Logically, that meant Matthew Riordan had almost as much of a vested interest in keeping compromising photographs out of the public eye as Rachel did.

      It was that ‘almost’ which gave him his ruthless edge. He was prepared to subject himself to public humiliation and rely on his PR clout for damage control afterwards…but surely only as a last resort. At the moment the primary value of the photographs to him must be as a weapon to hang over her head.

      All Rachel had to do was keep cool and try to exercise some damage control of her own.

      If only she had known what she was getting into she would never have taken on the job of watching over Merrilyn Freeman’s wretched dinner party!