Something to Talk About

Jo is a powerful Hollywood showrunner. Emma is her assistant. At the SAG Awards, a photographer catches Jo making Emma laugh on the red carpet, and the tabloids decide the two women are a couple.

The rumor puts Emma's shot at a promotion at risk, and it threatens Jo's new movie. Neither woman has done anything to feed the gossip. But as it spreads, they spend more time together, and Jo lets Emma see sides of her that she keeps from most people.

Emma is wary of risking both a friendship and her career. Jo guards her private life closely. Each begins to wonder whether the rumor might be true, and whether acting on the attraction is worth the publicity that would follow.

The book is a slow-burn queer romance told in alternating points of view, set in the film and television industry. The boss and employee dynamic gets direct attention, as do workplace sexual harassment after #MeToo and the cost of being publicly out. The question that drives it is whether two people can choose each other while the whole industry watches.