L. J. Breedlove

She's Going to Get Married Katy Williams proposed to her football coach in the newsroom - and he said yes. But then things got difficult. The only pastor who speaks to her can't marry them unless they're willing to publicly confess their sin and live apart until the ceremony. He's apologetic, but the deacons said no exceptions, not even for the football coach.So Katy turns to her former landlord, her source for all things Texan. Get the judge to do...

Called HomeIt gets messy when your loyalties are split. For all of his life, Ben Waters knew he would grow up, find a woman among his tribe, marry and have children. His grandfather, the chairman of the Yakama Tribal Council, had instilled it into him from day one. It was his duty. But then? He went away to college, because the tribe needed educated members, and he found a woman - and she wasn't Yakama. And he walked away from her. But now, the...

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 are 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...

A Promise to Keep Abby Stafford promised that all girls would have access to the life-saving serum that would see them through first transition. The first test subjects proved it worked. They had the doses they needed to begin. What they didn't have was access to the girls who needed it. And there were pack Alphas who would rather let them die than allow change to come to the packs. They kept to the old ways, they insisted. And watched their daughters...

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,...

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...

People's lives are on the line, and Katy Williams can't even pick up the phone. She's learning how to edit without using her hands. Her wrists are still damaged from the arson fire last month. It's left her in pain and cranky. Although her reporters at the Plains City Gazette swear they can't tell the difference - she's always been cranky. Funny. She thinks the arson fire may have damaged her sense of humor too. It's Texas, 1988. The arson fire...

Football and the FlagIt's Texas in the 1980s.A young black high school quarterback says he won't play varsity football because they carry the confederate flag. Katy Williams, editor at the local newspaper, is stunned by the reaction of the town -- and her staff -- which ranges from indifference to the flag to outrage that anyone would challenge it at all. When five of the starting line follow Clay Peabody off the team, the situation turns explosive....

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...