My name is Caroline Aldercy Shepherd. I'm a thirty-something Australian woman living in the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario. I moved to the Confederation of Canada from my native Commonwealth of Australia in April 2009. Life has been a weird mix of ups and downs since then. The great Confederation of Canada is the most xenophobic country on the planet Earth. They're hostile to immigrants, doesn't matter if you're Black, White, Indian, Hispanic, Chinese, Arabic or whatever. I can honestly say that I hate Canadians, folks. I make fun of them every Canada Day. What drove a Australian gal like myself to this cold dump? My estranged husband Henry Wellington is a member of Parliament in the Commonwealth of Australia. He's wealthy, powerful and titled. And he wants me dead after I threw hot coffee on his nuts when he beat me up one time too many.
There are bad men and bad women out there. Lots of us fall in love with them and marry them without knowing what they are. My estranged husband is a sociopath. The fact that he's six feet two inches tall, blond-haired and blue-eyed, born into wealth and power, helped mask what he is to the world. The son of a bitch likes to use women as punching bags. When we met at Melbourne University twenty years ago, he seemed like a nice chap. If I only knew then what I know now. All my girlfriends were jealous when we got hitched. Henry Wellington's family is close to the Queen of England herself. Also, he's heir to the Wellington fortune, estimated at sixty million U.S. dollars. I ran away from him and I will never come back. In my eyes, hell is the place I left behind. Compared to that, boring old Canada is an okay place. Especially since it's the place where I finally found true love.
I took a teaching position at the University of Ottawa, and settled into my new life. The job doesn't pay much but hey, it's a living. Teaching is and always will be my first love. I didn't realize it would lead to my other chance at love. It's at the University of Ottawa that I met Stanley D'Argent. A six-foot-three, well-built and handsome young Black man originally from the Republic of Haiti. Stanley is a student in the Telfer MBA Program at the University of Ottawa. This handsome young Black guy simply took my breath away the first time I laid eyes on him. Now, I'm not prejudiced or anything but I've never been into Black guys. We have quite a few in the Australian City of Gosford, New South Wales, where I was born and raised. A lot of the Black guys in Gosford are Aboriginal Australians and a few of them are African immigrants. Stanley was different from them. He carried himself like a prince, without being arrogant. He was also effortlessly brilliant and confident in a way few men are.