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 former journalist writing mysteries and thrillers about what she knows: complicated people, small towns, big cities, cops, reporters, politicians, assorted bad guys.
She says: I write about religion, and politics. About race and gender. I believe in the journalism axiom: Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. To which the labor organizer Mother Jones was supposed to have added: And in general raise hell. Works for me.