The Hill People — Keith M. Donaldson

Rookie U.S. Senator Roanne Dalton suspects her colleagues are working with drug company lobbyists to pressure the FDA into rejecting a drug touted as the cure for cancer. Short of committing political suicide, Dalton is powerless to act and arranges a meeting with local Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning newspaper reporter, Laura Wolfe, to ask for help.

Not one to abandon such a challenge, Laura dives into the investigation and soon discovers that those who work on Capitol Hill live in their own world. She hits several dead ends, but it's not until Dalton's top aide gets Laura into the Hill's fabled underground that gossip starts turning to leads -- and murder.

As her developing story takes on more twists and turns than a hairpin curve, Laura lands right in the middle of a deadly conspiracy, one that just might spell the end of her journalism career … and her life.