L.J. Breedlove

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  • Bibliography:
    62 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 2013
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Mac Davis

1 - Trust No One (Apr-2013)
2 - In God's Name (Jul-2020)
3 - Serve & Protect (Jun-2021)
4 - When No One Came (May-2022)
5 - Blood and Water (Jan-2023)
6 - One Big Lie (May-2024)
7 - Power Corrupts (May-2025)

A Newspaper in Texas

1 - Sins of Omission (Jan-2014)
2 - Pledge Allegiance (Sep-2014)
3 - A Virtuous Woman (Dec-2020)
4 - Deep Cover (Jan-2022)
5 - Weddings, Politics & Football (Dec-2022)

Newsroom PDX

1 - Choose (Feb-2021)
2 - Don't Go (Mar-2021)
3 - Hold Me (May-2021)
4 - Rage (Jun-2021)
5 - Be the Change (Jul-2021)
5.5 - Opening Pandora's Box (Aug-2021)
6 - In Charge (Aug-2021)
7 - Do the Job (Sep-2021)
7.5 - Interludes (Nov-2021)
8 - Hear Me (Oct-2021)
9 - Miss You (Nov-2021)
10 - Memory (Dec-2021)
10.5 - When Ryan Met Master A (Jan-2022)
11 - Hunted (Jan-2022)
12 - Seen (Feb-2022)
12.5 - Kaleidoscope of Memory (Apr-2022)
13 - Past Lives (Apr-2022)
14 - Life in Focus (Apr-2022)
15 - Smart Girl (Jun-2022)
16 - Hero (Jul-2022)
17 - A Story Well Told (Aug-2022)
18 - Who Do I Tell? (Oct-2022)
19 - My Body (Nov-2022)
20 - A Literary Life (Mar-2023)

Talkeetna

1 - Everybody Lies (Jan-2014)
2 - Somebody's Secrets (Sep-2020)
3 - Nobody Cares (Sep-2021)
4 - Nobody's Fool (Sep-2022)
5 - Is Anybody Alive? (Sep-2023)
6 - Somebody New (Sep-2024)
7 - Dead Body in the Dark (Sep-2025)

Wolf Harbor

0.5 - I Love You Two (Feb-2022)
0.5 - Woman of Hat Island (Nov-2022)
1 - Alpha Female (Mar-2022)
2 - Alpha's Alpha (Apr-2022)
3 - Power Grab (Jun-2022)
4 - Safe Haven (Jan-2023)
5 - Missing Pieces (Jan-2023)
6 - Beta Wolf (Jan-2023)
7 - Seek and You Shall Find (Jun-2023)
8 - To Have and to Hold (Jul-2023)
9 - All the Hidden Places (Sep-2023)
10 - Girls School (Nov-2023)
11 - Redemption Road (Jan-2024)
12 - Battle Lines (Mar-2024)
13 - Women of Power (Apr-2024)

Wolf Harbor Rescue

1 - Seek and You Shall Find (Jun-2023)
2 - To Have and to Hold (Jul-2023)
3 - All the Hidden Places (Sep-2023)
4 - Leading Them Home (Jun-2024)
5 - The Truth Sets You Free (Aug-2024)
6 - Someone Worth Living For (Nov-2024)

Book List in Order: 62 titles

  • Trust No One

    Mac Davis - 1

    Howard Parker wants to be Secretary of Homeland Security, and he's not letting some punk Marines stand in his way, even if one is now a reporter in his hometown of Seattle. Mac Davis likes being a reporter.No one shoots at him, he eats real meals reg...

  • Everybody Lies

    Talkeetna - 1

    Alaska's most hated lobbyist is dead. To State Patrol Lieutenant Paul Kitka, it seems simple -- abused wife flees to Alaska, husband follows, she shoots him -- and any Alaskan jury would acquit her. But Candace Marshall says she didn't do it. And it ...

  • Sins of Omission

    A Newspaper in Texas - 1

    Somewhere, Bob Anderson -- local banker, city council member, and now murder victim -- had the goods on a bunch of people in Plains City, Texas. Everybody wanted the files; no one could find them . Katy Williams was hired to make the Plains City Gaze...

  • Pledge Allegiance

    A Newspaper in Texas - 2

    Football and the Flag It's Texas in the 1980s. Football is king. A gifted Black high school quarterback says he won't play varsity football because they carry the Confederate flag. The town's reaction stuns Katy Williams, news editor at the local new...

  • In God's Name

    Mac Davis - 2

    SOMETIMES THE PAST WON'T STAY BURIEDJanet 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 isn't sure how he ended up being a cop repo...

  • Somebody's Secrets

    Talkeetna - 2

    Yes, you can go home again. But will you leave it alive?Paul Kitka hasn't returned to Sitka, Alaska, in 18 years -- not since a cop shot and killed his father. Now he's a cop himself, a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol. When his brother is arres...

  • A Virtuous Woman

    A Newspaper in Texas - 3

    A Woman's Place?Ruthie Brewster was on a mission to make sure every abused woman in Plains City, Texas, has a safe place to go.Until someone killed her.Plains City Gazette news editor Katy Williams admired Ruthie a lot. She's appalled: The police...

  • Choose

    Newsroom PDX - 1

    WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN ALL YOUR CHOICES SUCK?As far as the student-run Eyewitness News is concerned, J.J. is a journalist. And if he wants to cover the Black Lives Matter protests, EWN needs him there. He'll be a big name someday, the editors say.J.J.'s...

  • Don't Go

    Newsroom PDX - 2

    HE HAS A SON.Ryan Matthews is a player. He's also the editor-in-chief of student-run Eyewitness News in Portland. But for all the women — and a few men — who have been in and out of his bed (and office, and the Green Room, and the newsr...



  • Hold Me

    Newsroom PDX - 3

    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 n...

  • Rage

    Newsroom PDX - 4

    ALL HE FEELS IS RAGE.His father is dead. His lover is dead. Friends are gone or still recovering. The newsroom staff is exhausted. Everyone is looking to Cage Washington to show them the way through this crisis, and he has nothing to give them.Cage i...

  • Serve & Protect

    Mac Davis - 3

    A CALL TO ARMSSeattle Police Lieutenant Nick Rodriguez is worried about a growing number of domestic violence calls where the accused is a gun hoarder. Worried enough that he gives Mac Davis a call one morning at 2 a.m. to the house where a man just ...

  • Be the Change

    Newsroom PDX - 5

    He Doesn't Feel Like a HeroWhite supremacy groups have targeted the student-run Eyewitness News for their coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests. Protests become riots; death threats become real attempts. And the EWN staff doesn't know who they ...

  • In Charge

    Newsroom PDX - 6

    When They Came for the JournalistsIt has been a rough year for the student-run Eyewitness News. Protests, police brutality, the pandemic, and then white supremacists built a scaffold and hung a noose outside their building. Emily Andersen is the edit...

  • Opening Pandora's Box

    Newsroom PDX - 5.5

    Opening Pandora's Box Ryan Matthews had a standard answer to questions about his past. He'd been adopted by an older couple when he was 10. They loved him, and he loved them, and they probably didn't deserve the wild teen he'd been.But that answ...

  • Do the Job

    Newsroom PDX - 7

    Just Do the JobWill Bristol never intended to be the 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 sta...

  • Nobody Cares

    Talkeetna - 3

    Find them. Find the missing women.Paul Kitka, a lieutenant in the Alaska State Patrol, is half-Tlingit, half white. And when an Inuit elder from Bethel gets the brush-off from the Anchorage police, it's Paul she turns to.Her granddaughter, a student ...

  • Hear Me

    Newsroom PDX - 8

    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 de...

  • Interludes

    Newsroom PDX - 7.5

    In the Night World, There are SecretsNewsroom PDX is a suspense series featuring the students who run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland. They've got rules — not many, they aren't very good with rules, but some: Stay safe. Get the story. Come...



  • Miss You

    Newsroom PDX - 9

    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 hi...

  • Memory

    Newsroom PDX - 10

    When You Can't Trust Your Own MemoriesRyan Matthews has a memory problem. Some memories just don't exist — nothing before age 10 really.Some memories conflict.If you asked him a year ago about his home life, he would have said his adoptive par...

  • Deep Cover

    A Newspaper in Texas - 4

    She Won't Let Her People DownPeople'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 cra...

  • Hunted

    Newsroom PDX - 11

    Someone is Hunting ThemNine-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. ...

  • When Ryan Met Master A

    Newsroom PDX - 10.5

    Ryan Matthews might have been the star in the Eyewitness News' longest running soap opera. But there was a lot that was happening off the screen that his fellow student journalists didn't know about. At least Ryan didn't think they did. One neve...

  • I Love You Two

    Wolf Harbor - 0.5

    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 mid...

  • Seen

    Newsroom PDX - 12

    He's Everybody's Kid BrotherCorey Washington's oldest brother had been the advertising manager at the student-run Eyewitness News in Portland. His older brother Cage had been a videographer for years, and everyone hero-worshipped him — includi...

  • Alpha Female

    Wolf Harbor - 1

    A Fitness Spa Like You've Never Experienced Before Professor Abby Stafford was burned out. She was overweight, middle-aged, and tired. She'd even thought about suicide, but there were her dogs. Who would care for them? So she kept trudging...

  • Alpha's Alpha

    Wolf Harbor - 2

    Torn Between Two Lovers, Feeling Like A Fool Abby Stafford, new Alpha of the Hat Island Pack, has a lot to deal with. The serum the Hat Island Pack has developed will save the lives of shifter girls everywhere -- and change the world forever, if...

  • Kaleidoscope of Memory

    Newsroom PDX - 12.5

    The Kaleidoscope of Memories Ryan Matthews said his memories were like a kaleidoscope — all bright shards, that one moment made a bright image, and fell apart the next. And that was before someone hit him over the head with a sap and scram...



  • Life in Focus

    Newsroom PDX - 14

    When Someone Needs You to be Someone DifferentJoe Castro was the newsroom stoner — every college newsroom needs one, his editor quipped, and even he thought it was funny. Then his three younger siblings ran away from their abusive stepfather a...

  • Past Lives

    Newsroom PDX - 13

    Who Killed the Man Everyone Hated?The university president has breakthrough COVID, and everyone seems to see it as a chance to gain power — even if it's for a day or two. So, the interim Vice President for Student Affairs, who is also in the h...

  • When No One Came

    Mac Davis - 4

    IT'S EVERY COP'S WORST NIGHTMARESeattle Police Detective Joe Dunbar knew he'd screwed up big time, maybe even fatally. He swallowed hard, followed by a deep breath to steady himself. He'd managed to dodge the gunfire coming from the dark and nearly d...

  • Power Grab

    Wolf Harbor - 3

    Someone knows where shifters came from Alpha Abby Stafford sent Benny Garrison, a Teacher in the Hat Island pack, with her mate to the oldest pack in the world -- find their stories, she commanded, wishing she could go. But Benny didn't c...

  • Smart Girl

    Newsroom PDX - 15

    Nobody Likes a Smart GirlThe college newsroom in downtown Portland is home to an eclectic group of students who wrote, filmed, edited and produced the news for a television show, a newspaper, and a website. And oh, the radio station, and the literary...

  • Hero

    Newsroom PDX - 16

    When You're the HeroMiguel Garcia saved the day in January. His quick thinking stopped the Eyewitness News building from going up in flames with all of his friends and co-workers trapped inside.And he relives that moment almost nightly in his nightma...

  • A Story Well Told

    Newsroom PDX - 17

    When Hearing the Story Isn't EnoughThe 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...

  • Nobody's Fool

    Talkeetna - 4

    Even Heroes Make MistakesLanky 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 n...

  • Who Do I Tell?

    Newsroom PDX - 18

    How Many People Can One Person Be?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 ...

  • My Body

    Newsroom PDX - 19

    A Conservative VoiceLuke Kent had come to the student-run Eyewitness News in downtown Portland with a chip on his shoulder. He freely admitted it: he thought EWN was a bunch of ignorant liberals who were going to hell if they didn't repent. And he to...



  • Woman of Hat Island

    Wolf Harbor - 0.5

    Weathering the Winds of ChangeYui 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. S...

  • Weddings, Politics & Football

    A Newspaper in Texas - 5

    She's Going to Get MarriedKaty 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...

  • Beta Wolf

    Wolf Harbor - 6

    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. S...

  • Blood and Water

    Mac Davis - 5

    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 ha...

  • Missing Pieces

    Wolf Harbor - 5

    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 another bigger problem. She doesn't have all the pi...

  • Safe Haven

    Wolf Harbor - 4

    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 didnâ€...

  • A Literary Life

    Newsroom PDX - 20

    The Literary World UpstairsThe second-floor EWN newsroom was full of eccentric, bright, diverse news junkies. The first-floor business and advertising staff stayed away from there. Ad staff prided themselves on never having even seen the second floor...

  • Seek and You Shall Find

    Wolf Harbor - 7
    Wolf Harbor Rescue - 1

    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...

  • To Have and to Hold

    Wolf Harbor - 8
    Wolf Harbor Rescue - 2

    How do you confront your fears when they are all in your head?The email had been clear. Cujo Brown needed to return to Monte Carlo now. That wasn't going to be all that easy to get away from Hat Island. The pack — and especially his Alpha ...

  • All the Hidden Places

    Wolf Harbor - 9
    Wolf Harbor Rescue - 3

    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 swo...



  • Is Anybody Alive?

    Talkeetna - 5

    Mayday.When the call came over the radio at Purdue Flight Service, Candace Marshall started making the calls — first to her boss, Lanky Purdue, and to her fiancé, police Lt. Paul Kitka. And then she had a whole list of people to notify....

  • Girls School

    Wolf Harbor - 10

    No One Knows Where They Come FromThe Wolf Harbor Boarding School was mostly just a fantasy, until the students started showing up on their doorstep. First there was Pi, a Cambodian teenager. He joined the three young women who were already there, and...

  • Redemption Road

    Wolf Harbor - 11

    Some Things Haunt You ForeverThere 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 stabl...

  • Battle Lines

    Wolf Harbor - 12

    Fourteen of the most powerful shifters in the world will meet in Seattle. They will bring their staff, their agendas, and their vendettas. Most of all, they will determine the future of shifters, and the survival of the species may depend upon what t...

  • Women of Power

    Wolf Harbor - 13

    Can there be a third way?There exists a set of myths and prophesies known as the Wolf's Codex — the Okami Kōdekkusu, probably the only written history of the shifter species. It comes from the before times, it's said. Lost for millennia...

  • One Big Lie

    Mac Davis - 6

    She Has No One Else to Turn toKate Fairchild was waiting in the conference room of the Seattle Examiner when Mac Davis got off deadline. Well, she probably wasn't Fairchild anymore, Mac thought. She'd gotten married, and she was the type of woman who...

  • Leading Them Home

    Wolf Harbor Rescue - 4

    Hungry for a HomeWhen newly made shifter men started turning up in Vancouver, the Alpha thought it was a boon — he wanted an army to march against the shifter rulers on the Northwest Council of Alphas. He didn't ask many questions. He should h...

  • The Truth Sets You Free

    Wolf Harbor Rescue - 5

    Down in GeorgiaThe last time Indigo Barnaby had been in Georgia, his name hadn't been Indigo Barnaby. He'd been happy to leave the state behind, and he didn't much want to go back either. But apparently, he was going there.At least he wasn't going al...

  • Somebody New

    Talkeetna - 6

    She's Changed.Naomi survived. A serial killer kidnapped her along with dozens of other women over a three-year period. When they were rescued, Naomi wasn't the same person she had been. How could she be? She'd seen unspeakable things. Had unspeakable...

  • Someone Worth Living For

    Wolf Harbor Rescue - 6

    She's Not Going to Let GoSynde Bell never had much. She grew up poor in Iowa, ran away at 16 to Las Vegas, and clawed her way to success as a dancer the hard way. But dancing was a young person's game, and at 48, she knew she wasn't going to be danci...

  • Alpha Baby

    Expecting the UnexpectedAbby Stafford, Alpha of the Hat Island pack, is pregnant. It's not anything anyone thought would happen, least of all her, but she's going to have twins. A lot of people are interested in her babies. As much as she would like ...

  • Power Corrupts

    Mac Davis - 7

    Justice for AllNearly a year ago, a group of corrupt cops tried to kill two cops, and failed, thanks in part to Mac Davis, a Marine turned cop reporter for the Seattle Examiner. And as is often the case, the attempt to cover it up was an even bigger ...

  • Dead Body in the Dark

    Talkeetna - 7

    A Favor Is OwedThe Iditarod. A race across 1000 miles of Alaska done by dog sled, with a racer and a dozen or so dogs. The ceremonial start is in Anchorage; the real start is in Willow on the first Saturday of March. It will end some 10-15 days later...

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L.J. Breedlove has published 62 books.

The next book by L.J. Breedlove, Dead Body in the Dark, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by L.J. Breedlove, Trust No One, was published in April 2013.

Yes. L.J. Breedlove has 6 series.
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