Ellison Lee lives a double life. Well triple, if you count the one he shows his parents. He's an anchor for the student-run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland. A business major on the six-year plan like so many of the EWN staff. His family is very proud of him. They had hoped for a STEM major, but this is good too.
And then there's E. Lee. He's a pole dancer at the Stag, a gay bar down in Chinatown. He makes good money, and he likes it. Someday he'll give it up, but not now, not yet.
E. Lee's lover is a man he only knows as P3. He doesn't know where he lives, what he does for a living, nothing. He only knows that this is a man he wants to keep forever.
Ryan Matthews does know P3, however, and he doesn't think Ellison Lee has any business getting near the psychopath who tried to kill him a year ago.
E. Lee? Well, that may be a different story. And if there is one thing Ryan Matthews does believe in, it's second chances.
Year 3, book 4. The 19th book of the Newsroom PDX series, a political suspense story in downtown Portland. Expect foul language, some sex, lot's of politics — 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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