GRL 2019 AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT - The Scoop by Louisa Keller

In my attempt to cover some of the attending authors for this year's GRL,

I am reviewing 

Louisa Keller's

The Scoop!

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“I don’t normally open up to anyone like this…”

Neil: Until I met Easton Devereux, I had no idea that a single night could change my life. One minute our eyes were meeting in a hotel bar, and the next I was falling hard for him. Instead of holding back like I normally do, I found myself wanting to share every part of myself with Easton—my deepest secrets, my darkest fears, and every inch of my body. Saying goodbye in the morning was the hardest thing I’d had to do in years, and I drove up to Maine lamenting the fact that we only had one night together. Or so I thought…

When Monday morning rolls around, I find myself standing in my brand-new classroom, where I will spend the next year teaching philosophy to the students at an elite private high school. And who is sitting there, drumming his fingers on his desk? None other than my life-changing one-night stand.

“There are things you don’t know about me. Big things.”

Easton: At twenty-three years old, I’m well on my way to achieving my goal of becoming an award-winning journalist. When my boss sends me to the exclusive Laurelhurst Academy to go undercover as a student, I’m over the moon. This is my chance to break a huge story. But everything starts to crumble around me when I find myself face-to-face with the man I slept with—and started falling for—right before arriving at Laurelhurst.

I desperately want to tell Neil the truth about who I am, but blowing my cover is not an option. For one thing, I can’t do anything that might jeopardize the story I’m breaking. But the bigger issue is Neil’s safety, because I was sent to Laurelhurst to uncover the principal’s homophobic hiring and firing practices, and the more Neil knows, the more likely his job will be in jeopardy.

The Scoop is a contemporary romance with student/teacher, hurt/comfort, and hidden relationship themes, plus a very happy ending.

REVIEW

My Rating - 5 Stars!

Louisa Keller's The Scoop is a great teacher/student romance. 

This is the story of Easton and Neil, who meet and have a hook up that feels meaningful. Ends up they're in class together, as student/teacher. Taboo, right? Well, Neil doesn't know that Easton's actually an undercover reporter posing as a student. 

The heart of their story revolves around the fact that Neil's a closeted professor working for a homophobic university administration. With this being the administration Easton's investigating, the secrets and lies are all they have. Neil's hiding his relationship with Easton from everyone, and Easton's hiding his undercover status from Neil, as well as everyone else. Yikes! 

Having a relationship based on lies, their romance is more than just a taboo one. Their story involves PTSD, a fire, and trauma. Their story is one of learning to live with pain. It's a story of learning to trust and take chances. 

The author's writing is fantastic, with loveable characters, a great storyline, and a wonderful pace. 

Louisa Keller's The Scoop sucked me in from the start, leaving me reading late into the night. I couldn't put his superb romance down. 

Louisa Keller

Louisa Keller is a queer adventuress who has spent most of her life living in New England and the Pacific Northwest. While her academic background revolves mainly around French Studies and Philosophy, she has strayed from these considerably in her professional pursuits. Over the years Louisa has been a tutor, goat farmer, concierge, and freelance copywriter. She has also hiked hundreds of miles across northern Spain, volunteered at a medical clinic in Honduras, and spent many a summer living in small cabins and platform tents. When she's not off gallivanting, Louisa can be found with a whiskey-ginger ale in one hand and a Philip Pullman book in the other.