Nine-year-old Jazzy needs the Video Man, her own private superhero, because Ms.Carroll has gone missing.
Cage Washington doesn't think he's a superhero at all, but he's got friends, and they'll do their best to rescue Carroll.
But it isn't just Carroll they're hunting. There is a forced conversion therapy camp operating somewhere outside of Portland. And for a price, they'll kidnap your LGBTQIA kid and 'fix' them.
And they want Carroll Gilligan. With Carroll, it's not about family, or fixing her.
It's about revenge.
Book 12 in the political suspense series Newsroom PDX.
Foul language, some sex, lots of politics. Because it's Portland.
A former journalist writing mysteries and thrillers about what she knows: complicated people, small towns, big cities, cops, reporters, politicians, assorted bad guys.
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.