Ryan Matthews is a player. He's also the editor-in-chief of student-run Eyewitness News in Portland. But for all the women — and a few men — who have been in and out of his bed (and office, and the Green Room, and the newsroom couch), part of him has never gotten over the woman who left him three years ago.
And then she came back. Teresa Valdez. She came back, gave him his 3-year-old son, and left again. ICE says she's undocumented and want to put her in a camp: to send her back to a country she left when she was a baby and can't remember. She's on the run.
If Ryan wants his woman back, if he wants to care for his son, there are big changes ahead. His days as a player are over.
This is book 2 in a new-adult suspense series, Newsroom PDX.
Sex. Bad language. Lots of Politics. It's Portland — what can I say?
L.J. Breedlove is a former journalist writing mysteries and thrillers about what she knows: complicated people, small towns, big cities, cops, reporters, politicians, assorted bad guys.
L.J. grew up on a cattle ranch and then went to college to be an oceanographer. She decided getting seasick was not a good trait for any oceanographer to have, and discovered journalism instead — a field that liked people who asked questions!
As a reporter and editor, she worked in Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Texas, and Washington, D. C. — places that have become the sites for her books. She got homesick for the Pacific Northwest and came home to work with college newspapers and teach journalism.
She is an over-educated, bleeding-heart liberal with a penchant for heroes such as Jack Reacher. She isn't particularly bothered by the inconsistency. Some of her thrillers have werewolves in them — that doesn’t faze her either.
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