Nicole is reeling from the news that Andy has a son with his former girlfriend. Although reluctant to give him up, she realises that the child will always be an unbreakable bond between his father and mother.
Now, in the final months of her MA degree at Edinburgh University, Nicole finds herself increasingly attracted to Lex, her charming Australian tutor. Standing in her way are university protocols which frown on staff-student liaisons.
Is this relationship also going nowhere?
The Sweetest Lie is a spicy literary romance of loves old and new, lost and found, which poses age-old questions about love, friendship and the eternal triangle.
Approx 100,000 words