Dana Perino — the calm composed Fox News anchor who spent years behind the most powerful podium in American politics as White House Press Secretary — just hit the New York Times bestseller list with a romance novel and absolutely nobody saw that coming.

Her book Purple State is a love story about a liberal woman falling for a conservative man — written because Perino genuinely believes that too many young people are letting politics get in the way of love — and she told the Wall Street Journal that she thinks of all these young people as her nieces and wants them to stop worrying their young lives away. The woman who once stood at that podium and answered the hardest questions in the world just wrote a romance novel — and somehow that tells you everything you need to know about who she really is.