A Secret Worth Keeping

At twenty-seven, Willa Kate Johnson has already accomplished what most people spend a lifetime chasing. A Harvard-educated lawyer, brilliant strategist, and trusted White House Press Secretary, Willa has become one of President Fitzgerald Grant's most indispensable advisers. In front of the cameras, she is polished, fearless, and always in control.

But behind the closed doors of the White House, Willa is hiding the one secret that could destroy everything.

She is in love with the President of the United States.

Their relationship began quietly, long before either of them understood how dangerous it could become. What started with late nights in the West Wing and conversations that went far beyond politics slowly turned into something neither Fitz nor Willa could walk away from.

Fitz is married to Mellie Grant. Willa works steps away from the First Lady. Every word they say, every glance they exchange, and every moment they spend alone could expose them.

And then there is Olivia Pope.

Once the President's trusted White House communications strategist, Olivia leaves the administration and opens her own crisis-management firm, taking a group of brilliant, damaged, and fiercely loyal "gladiators" with her. Olivia becomes Washington's ultimate fixer-the woman powerful people call when their secrets are about to become headlines.

But Olivia doesn't know the biggest secret in Washington yet.

When a young woman claims she had an affair with the President, Olivia is pulled into a mystery that seems straightforward at first. The deeper she digs, however, the more she realizes that someone has been carefully protecting the President from a truth far more complicated than a simple political scandal.