The Anchor

Her body recognized the voice before her mind caught up.

Cable news anchor Helena Richards is live on television when her new executive producer says her first word into her earpiece - and Helena recognizes that voice instantly. Cool. Professional. Completely familiar. Her hand tightens on the desk. She delivers the next line of copy perfectly. The audience sees nothing.

Helena has spent thirteen years becoming the most controlled woman in primetime. Three executive producers have fled her show in eighteen months. The fourth one has just walked into her control room - and nobody warned her it was her ex.

Valerie Clark, Peabody Award-winning documentary journalist, took the job for the money. That's the lie she packed first. She left Helena thirteen years ago - and she's only starting to understand how wrong she was to leave.

Now Val is in the control room, and her voice lives inside Helena's head for hours every broadcast night. Professional instruction that lands too close. Camera cues that sound like something else entirely. Every word dragging up memories Helena buried a decade ago - some that still ache, some so sexy they burn.

The audience only sees a flawless broadcast. They have no idea that Helena is unraveling one whispered word at a time.

The Anchor is an ice queen, second chance, forced proximity sapphic romance from the author of Collision Course and Cabin Fever. Slow burn. High heat. Emotionally devastating. For readers who like their ice queens complicated and their happy endings earned.