BLURB:
Laila
Levin enjoys a successful marriage and a thriving career as an I.T. executive
in Austin, Texas, but she can't quite shake her lifelong sense of not truly
belonging anywhere.
When
her company announces a major layoff, Laila finds herself caught between an
unscrupulous CEO and her promiscuous boss. Then news of her college roommate's
suicide stirs up a dark secret involving three devious friends from her past.
One has betrayed a vow, another wants to rekindle their romance, and the third
is out for revenge.
Suddenly
for Laila, it's 1969 again. She's only seventeen, and she's left her sheltered
home in Long Island for college in Connecticut. Amid protests of the Vietnam
War, she's tempted by the sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that rule her
generation. Laila gets swept up in a deceptive love triangle with two older
locals and initiated into their unethical hippie family. Too late she realizes
her search to belong has led to tragedy.
Laila
must now juggle the demands of her perplexed husband and her baby boomer past
forcing her to make choices that endanger her survival and challenge her
conscience.
She
learns that the lines between right and wrong are often blurred, and sometimes
you have to risk everything to be true to yourself.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Excerpt:
CHAPTER ONE
Lost in Texas
Austin,
Texas, 2012
A couple
dozen stars and the eye of a yellow moon pierce light through a sky filled with
smoke. I look out the broken window to the ground below. Crumpled in the weeds
is a lifeless body with red-flecked eyes, a bushy mustache, and sweet smile.
Vapor seeps
into the room. I can barely breathe. Ben wraps his arms around me as I weep.
Denise lies in a catatonic state perched on the bed. Why is she only wearing
her bra and panties?
Chris
stumbles inside the room. His eyes glow like diamonds. He cranes his head out
the window. “We gotta do something, man.”
“I’ll call
for an ambulance,” I say.
Ben gulps,
“That’s not a good idea.”
“We have to,”
I insist. “For Godsakes.”
He’s dead,
Laila,” Chris says.
Tears sting
my eyes.
WITH A JOLT,
I awake whimpering. The nightmare has infested my dreams for years. It may be
time to see a shrink.
The anxiety
subsides when my husband Eduardo arrives with a cappuccino and the morning
paper. “Are you okay? It sounded like you were crying.”
I clear my
throat. “No, no, I’m fine. Just a dream, I guess.” I’ve never discussed these
recurring nightmares with him. Eduardo’s got his own problems. He was recently
laid off in a corporate downsize and refuses to talk about it. There’s lots of
tension in our home right now. Maybe we should both see a shrink.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Lara Reznik
grew up on Long Island but escaped to New Mexico in 1970 in a Karmann Ghia that
she and her boyfriend jump-started cross-country. As an English major at the
University of New Mexico, Lara studied under esteemed authors Rudolfo Anaya and
the late Tony Hillerman. She also attended a summer program at the prestigious
Iowa Writers Workshop.
Ambidextrous
from birth, Lara preferred her right-brained creative side, but discovered she
could make a better living with her left-brain skills, so entered the I.T.
field in 1985.
Lara
published her first novel, The Girl From Long Guyland in November 2012. The
novel ranked #1 during its recent Amazon Kindle promotion and has over 115,000
Kindle downloads. In addition to her novels, Lara has written and optioned
three screenplays that have garnered semifinalist and finalist wins in the
Austin Heart of Film, Southwest Writers, TV Writer, Chesterfield and Writer's
Digest contests. Currently, Lara is working on a new novel based on her
screenplay, The M&M Boys.
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