Eliza Blake is a newswoman on the rise. Well liked and respected by her colleagues at Key News, everything is going right for her. She's finally come to terms with her husband's death, and risen above the depression that had temporarily overwhelmed her. She's happy spending time with her adoring young daughter, and a budding romance is making her believe in love all over again.

Then Bill Kendall, a senior anchorman, dies unexpectedly, and Eliza is thrust into the limelight and she is offered her biggest opportunity ever. Everything seems right -- and yet wrong. As Eliza starts to suspect that Kendall's death has ramifications beyond the set of the TV show, she begins to unravel a plot of murder, greed, and jealousy that involves players as high up as the White House. This is Joy Fielding, Mary Higgins Clark territory by a talented newcomer.


Nobody Knows

by Mary Jane Clark

Published 1 August 2002
The repercussions of ambitious reporting have derailed the career of KEY News legal correspondent Cassie Sheridan. A Washington insider, she is forced to the Miami bureau to wait out the end of her contract. While covering a hurricane that's moving up the west coast of Florida, she meets 11-year-old Vincent, who has just made a grisly discovery on the beach. In one week, Cassie traces the connection between Vincent's newfound "treasure" and a secret operation in the dark shadows of sunny Sarasota - a story that has national significance and maybe, just maybe, will win back her reputation. As Cassie moves closer to the truth, a young woman's murderer will stop at nothing to keep the crime a secret.

Farrell Slater, a TV news producer, is at a crossroads. Her job at Key News hangs in the balance when she fails to convince her boss to broadcast the story of the auctioning of the legendary Faberge Moon Egg. While trying to figure out what she will do with her future, she learns that the multi-million dollar treasure isn't all it appears to be. Farrell seizes the opportunity to expose the story and, in the process, save her career.

In this nailbiting media thriller, the mighty world of television news collides with the art world's secrecy, intrigue, and high stakes wheeling and dealing. From a deadly workshop in Brooklyn's "Little Odessa" to the wealth, power, and glamour of New York's prestigious auction scene, no one is safe and everyone is a suspect, all under the threatening gaze of the unforgiving network news cameras.