PDX 2021 Spring


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Then They Came for the Journalists Will Bristol never intended to be editor-in-chief of Eyewitness News in downtown Portland. He had planned to coast through his senior year as an investigative reporter, build his portfolio and go out to a newspaper somewhere to start his career. When there was no one else to do but an unqualified white supremacist who wanted to dismantle the newsroom piece by piece, Will knew he had to step up. He was terrified he wasn't good enough, however. The white supremacists that had infiltrated the university campus security weren't done. Not by a long shot. This is a boxed set of books in Newsroom PDX, a series about a college newsroom in downtown Portland during some of the most tumultuous times the city has ever faced. Meet Will Bristol, the reluctant editor-in-chief, Bianca Parks, whose face on the nightly news has made her a target, and Ben Waters, who has always done what his tribe has asked, even now, when he's asked to come home. Welcome to PDX Year 2, books 1-3, now out in an omnibus.




PDX Portland 2021 Summer


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When Your Memories Are Suspect, Count on Your Friends Home is where when you have to go there, they have to take you in. This is the fourth omnibus in Newsroom PDX, a pollical suspense series about a college newsroom in downtown Portland during some of the most tumultuous times the city has ever faced. Ryan Matthews has always known his memory was full of holes. Turns out some of the things he remembers are true either. But he's about to find out just how messed up his memories really are. Fortunately, he's got people he knows are true. People who will be there for him — no matter how bad it gets. Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Rather like the city itself. This omnibus includes Memory, the novella Fire Drill, and Hunted.




PDX Portland 2022 Spring-Fall


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Who Decides Who You Are? The personal is political. — Carol Hanisch What if you know something, but you're not sure what it is you know, and moreover, you're not sure anyone would believe you if you told them? P3 — Percy Abbott III — is afraid to find out. Jennifer's willingness to copyedit the reams of writing by inexperienced reporters makes the newsroom favorite. Nobody messes with the copyeditor! It's a rule. (And this gang of non-conformists have few rules they're willing to abide by.) But going out for coffee isn't going to hurt anything. Right? Portland is famous for its literary community of writers, readers, bookstores, coffeehouses, and literary magazines like the Portland Review — a part of Newsroom PDX. Covid had been devastating, but the literary community is coming back. But the scars from the pandemic haven't gone away. This is the seventh omnibus in Newsroom PDX, a pollical suspense series about a college newsroom in downtown Portland during some of the most tumultuous times the city has ever faced. Foul language. Some sex. Lots of politics. Rather like the city itself. This omnibus includes Who Do I Tell?, My Body, and A Literary Life.




Notable Women of Portland


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The story of Portland, Oregon, like much of history, has usually been told with a focus on male leaders. This book offers a reframing of Portland's history. Many women made their mark and radically changed the Oregon frontier, including Native Americans Polly Johnson and Josette Nouette; pioneers Minerva Carter and Charlotte Terwilliger; doctors Marie Equi, Mary Priscilla Avery Sawtelle, and Bethina Owens-Adair; artists Eliza Barchus and Lily E. White; suffragists Abigail Scott Duniway, Hattie Redmond, and Eva Emery Dye; lawyer Mary Gysin Leonard; Air Force pilot Hazel Ying Lee; politicians Barbara Roberts and Margaret Carter; and authors Frances Fuller Victor, Beverly Cleary, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, Ursula Le Guin, and Jean Auel. These women, along with groups of women such as "Wendy the Welders," made Portland what it is today.




Redemption Road


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Some Things Haunt You Forever There is trouble in the Okanogan. Benny and Ryder Garrison grew up there, a part of their father's shifter pack. But their father has disappeared, and the pack has slowly disintegrated — and it wasn't the most stable of packs to begin with. The neighboring Penticton pack in British Columbia is causing problems — again — and the Penticton Alpha is thought to be a part of the pipeline that allowed Vancouver to amass a young shifter army. That fell apart when Hat Island Alpha Abby Stafford killed the Vancouver Alpha, but there are still all those young shifters, just waiting for a leader. The whole region is about to go up in flames — just days before the big meeting of the World Council of Alphas in Seattle. Fix it, Abby ordered. And really, Benny and Ryder are the only two who probably can. Interlopers to the region aren't welcomed in the best of times. When Jessie Nickerson insists she's coming along because there's a rumor her missing fiancé might be up there, the brothers barely muster a protest. The region's mess might be easier to face than their own demons, however — Ryder with nightmares of the Iraq war, Jessie with her search for her missing fiancé, and Benny with his fears of the Hat Island pack has done. A book in the Wolf Harbor universe, Redemption Road follows Girls School.




Beta Wolf


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They Were Promised A Home Beta wolves. Powerful, dominant wolves banished by their birth packs because they were a threat to their pack Alphas. Cast out as lone wolves, they drifted, solitary yet belonging to a species that yearned to belong. Some found a place in the military. Some found other places. But there was always the danger of the first rule — do nothing that reveals shifters to humans. Betas who did, found an enforcer on their doorstep. And then, a pack rose up on Hat Island, home to Yui Ito, and her mate Okami Yoshida. The pack there had been killed off during World War II, all but Yui. For 80 years there had been no pack on Hat Island. And now there was. A female Alpha had called a pack into being. And the word came. Yui was calling the betas home. They were owed. There was a pack that would accept them — if they wanted one. There was nothing a beta wanted more than that — to belong to a pack, to know that there were people who had your back. Nothing. Come to Wolf Harbor, a paranormal suspense series, featuring strong women, sexy men, and wolves.




Nobody's Fool


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Even Heroes Make Mistakes Lanky Purdue is an Alaskan icon. He's been there forever — the dashing Air Force pilot, the man who flew medicines into villages in dark winters, the man who has rescued more stranded climbers than anyone can count. If you need help, Lanky Purdue is the man you go to. So when Belle Robards shows up at Purdue Flight Service in the dead of winter looking for help, it's no great surprise to Dace Marshall, his office manager. So yes, she's wearing a skirt, high heeled boots and a fur jacket — in Talkeetna at 10 below — and she won't tell Dace what the problem is. But Lanky wouldn't fall for a pretty face and a bogus sob story. Would he?




Seek and You Shall Find


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Promises to Keep Cujo Brown owed no one anything. He had been a lone wolf for 40 plus years, and he liked it that way. No strings attached. Not to a pack. Not to a woman. Not even to his employer — most certainly not to his old employer. He had an NDA that didn't even allow him to speak their name. And he was fine with that. Back before he'd been banished from his home pack in Hayden Lake, Cujo Brown had attended a Boys Scout camp at Hat Island. And there, he'd formed some of the only bonds he has ever really known. When he retired from the agency-not-to-be named, something tugged him back to Wolf Harbor on Hat Island. Dr. Stefan Lebenev, also one of those teen-aged scouts from long ago, had figured out a serum that would help young shifter girls get through their first shift. He had a grant to finish out the details, and he needed a security chief. Well, that was most certainly within Cujo's skill set. And so Cujo took on a new identity — security chief and fitness coach. Lebenev was a brilliant researcher. But he wasn't any good with people. If he had been, well, maybe he would have vetted his grant funder better. Maybe, he would have listened when people tried to tell him what was happening to his test subjects — post-menopause human women — wasn't right. But the stakes were so high. The survival of the shifter species was at stake. And everyone swallowed their objections and concerns. Even Cujo. It wasn't like he had a lot of morals or ethics to start with, he told himself. Why flinch now? He'd done worse for less gains. Much worse. But then an elderly woman named Olivia Trainer came to the island. And Cujo was bewitched. Mate, his wolf said. Lone wolves can't have mates, Cujo told his wolf. Mate, the wolf insisted. It didn't matter. Stefan Lebenev traded Olivia for continued funding just as he had all the other test subjects. Wolf Harbor didn't have the resources to counsel new wolves, he insisted. The grant funder did. But that wasn't what the grant funder was doing. Mate, his wolf howled. They're torturing our mate! A fitness coach wasn't going to be able to rescue Olivia Trainer. Not even a security chief for a fitness resort could do that. But Cujo Brown had other skills at his disposal. And he is going after his mate. First in a new spin-off series of Wolf Harbor. The series features Cujo Brown, the bad boy readers crush on, and his mission to rescue the women who were test subjects at Wolf Harbor — starting with his mate. Follows immediately after the prequel, Woman of Hat Island, and parallels the main Wolf Harbor series!




Trust No One


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WHEN YOU COME FOR THE WRONG MAN Howard Parker wants to be Secretary of Homeland Security. And he isn't going to let a bunch of Marines who were in the wrong place at the wrong time stand in his way — even if one of them is now a reporter in Seattle, his home town. What are the odds? Former Marine Mac Davis likes being a cop reporter. He gets a regular paycheck, and no one is shooting at him. What's not to like? So yeah, he has to hang out around cops, but every job has its downsides. Then someone tries to kill him. Roughs up his aunt. Kidnaps an old Marine buddy. And Mac is going to find out why. And then? He'll put a stop to it. One way or another. If the tools of a reporter won't get the job done? Well then, he's got other tools to use. Book 1 in the Mac Davis thrillers featuring a Marine turned cop reporter in Seattle.




Safe Haven


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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 die. Unacceptable, Abby Stafford said. She just needed to figure out what to do about it. Because shifter girls deserved a future. And she was going to give them one. Book 4 in Wolf Harbor, a paranormal suspense series.