Hold Me

Disclaimer: While place descriptions and news events may coincide with the real world, all characters and the plot are fictional.
== Publisher Description ==
Newsroom rules: Stay Safe. Get the story. Get back to the newsroom.
When the college basketball team traveled to Boise for a Thanksgiving tournament, the sports director 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 now it's in the newsroom.
The new editors at Eyewitness News in Portland have a lot going on: run one of the largest newsrooms in the city, all done by college students. Cover the nightly Black Lives Matter protests downtown. Start a new personal relationship. But all of that takes a back seat when the pandemic comes home.
The university and the city need the information EWN can provide. If they can keep enough people healthy to get the job done.
Stay safe. Get the story. Sometimes you can't do both.
Book 4 in the series: Newsroom PDX.
Some sex, a bit kinky. Bad language. Lots of politics. Heartbreak. It's Portland.
Released on 4 May 2021.
=== Author's Dedication ===
To all of those who are fighting to keep us save during this pandemic: the first responders, the health professionals, those who believe good government must be based on scientific evidence, and those who tell the stories that matter. Thank you.
=== Period covered: ===
Sunday November 15, 2020 to Monday December 14, 2020
=== Real life events referred to: ===
* Boise State Broncos to resume football practice Tuesday after COVID-19 issues (ESPN)
* Idaho reaches grim milestone: More than 100,000 virus cases (Mountain Home News)
* Thanksgiving Week Lull Belies Coming COVID-19 Surge, Health Officials Say (Boise State Public Radio)
* The NCAA was created to protect college athletes. Now it’s trotting them out during a pandemic (Washington Post)
* Dozens of University of Oregon students test positive for coronavirus (OPB)
* Coronavirus in Oregon: State reports 1,244 new cases, double-digit deaths for second straight day (Oregonian)
* As Oregon COVID-19 cases climb, a surge of diagnoses are in the Portland area (OPB)
* Pandemic’s impact to Portland’s homeless population still unknown (Koin)
* Giving a homeless child some food, warm clothes and a place to sleep is our civil duty (Statesman Journal)
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