L. J Breedlove

NEWSROOM RULES: STAY SAFE. GET THE STORY. When the college basketball team traveled to Boise for a Thanksgiving tournament, the sports editor thought she did everything right: social distancing, testing before the trip, masks, no parties. But no one told her, or the team, or the alumni aboard the trip, the truth: a coach came down with COVID and had to be left behind on a ventilator in Boise. The COVID numbers are rising in Portland. At the university. And...

Weathering the Winds of Change Yui Ito Yoshida had always lived on Hat Island. She didn't think she could live anywhere else. She'd faced trauma as a child, more trauma as an adult, but now? Now she had a mate, two children, and she was happy. Safe. She laughed when they called her the Woman of Hat Island, but she had to acknowledge she was deeply rooted here. It was her refuge. Then Stefan Lebenev showed up to reopen the Wolf Harbor Resort. And she...

A rumor says a mad man has one of the missing wolvesCujo Brown stayed behind in Hayden Lake to make sure his birth pack didn't self-destruct after the death of the old Alpha and the installation of the new Alpha - his father.His father had sworn allegiance to the Northwest Council of Alphas and promised to see to the well-being of the future generations of shifters - starting with giving the girls the serum that would save their lives at first shift.It...

Is Blood Really Thicker than Water? Life is good. Mac Davis, a former Marine, is now a cop reporter for the Seattle Examiner. He's had stories nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He has a reputation as a hard-nosed reporter, and a good man to have at your back when trouble comes knocking. And even Mac admits, around him, trouble usually does. He has a career, a girlfriend, even a house. He has friends. He belongs. But his past is knocking on the...

Janet Andrews is a respected journalist and editor. But once, she was someone else. Now, they're coming for her, and this time? They aren't going to let her go. Mac Davis still isn't sure how he ended up being a cop reporter. But he's pretty sure he wouldn't still be a reporter if it wasn't for Janet Andrews. He probably would be in jail, if not dead. So he owes her. And he knows it. Now, she's in trouble. She's being hunted. Mac doesn't plan to...

Cinderella's Godmother had it EasyAfter all, Cinderella was young, fit from hard labor and lean eating. Clean her up, buy her a fancy dress, and she's fit for a dance with the handsome prince. Any Nordstrom personal shopper could do it.But take a middle-aged, overweight college professor who's only been a wolf shifter for a week? Now that's a challenge, Abby Stafford thought whimsically. But here she was off to the ball, on the arm of Jake Lewis,...

Problems, But No Solutions Alpha Abby Stafford keeps inheriting messes to clean up, and she feels like she's just scrambling to stay ahead of the crises. And every crisis seems to lead to an even bigger problem. She doesn't have all the pieces she needs to solve them either. It wasn't like her scholarly work. There was a process to that. A literature review of what was already known. Observation, interviews, data collection. A time for reflection...

The student-run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland has a lot of balls in the air: a series on homelessness, a new look at why downtown is so empty, an investigation into the man who tried to kill some of the staff, and a whole host of other stories. Plenty to keep them all busy, the news editor thought. And now what? A war in Ukraine? How was she supposed to cover that? Still reeling from the recent events, the staff gears up to try to do the story...

She's Not Going to RunBianca Parks is the face of the student-run Eyewitness News in Portland, Oregon. She's the person everyone sees on the nightly newscast, the most recognizable face - more than the editor-in-chief, more than anyone. She describes herself as a Blacktina - both a Black woman and a Latina. And she's been the target of hate and abuse online since she first walked up on the anchor set and smiled at the camera.The online hate has been...

Paul Kitka likes fast cars, women and his job as a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol.Candace Marshall doesn't know what she likes - being married to an abusive husband does that. She came to Alaska to kill herself: figured it was easy there, just pick a trail and keep going. Something will get you, the terrain, the wildlife, or the weather. But she discovered something she did like - Alaska. And after all, that trail would always be there.Then...