How Far She’s Come

A few months before graduating from Stanford, Cheyenne Florian, the narrator of this timely, unsettling thriller from Brown (A Necessary End), became an internet sensation when a nude video of her went viral, so she has reason to doubt the motives of billionaire Edwin Gordon when he offers her a newscaster job at his Independent News Network. During the interview on Gordon’s private plane at the Palo Alto, Calif., airport, he manages to persuade her that he’s hiring her for her talent, as displayed in her vlogs, and she agrees to fly with him to New York. Soon after joining the INN staff, Cheyenne is ogled by one male producer and groped by another. More disturbingly, an anonymous source starts sending her excerpts from the 1991 diary of another young female newscaster, whose experiences in the business oddly parallel her own. The constant pressures on Cheyenne as she seeks to avoid her predecessor’s unhappy fate, sometimes overt, sometimes subtle, are convincingly portrayed. This provocative tale will resonate with many in the era of the #MeToo movement. [em]Agent: Elisabeth Weed, Weed Literary Agency. (May) [/em]