Ryan Matthews has a memory problem. Some memories just don't exist — nothing before age 10, really.
Some memories conflict.
If you asked him a year ago about his home life, he would have said his adoptive parents loved him, and he loved them, and they probably didn't deserve the wild teen he became.
So what about the scars on his arm? Or his stomach? What about the images that haunt his nightmares?
If you can't trust your own memories, what can you trust?
Book 11 in the Newsroom PDX suspense series, set in a college newsroom in downtown Portland.
Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Just like Portland.
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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