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 TWENTY-FOUR
Easy Rider
Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1969
The guy in
the passenger seat of the Mercedes ordered Joey and me to get into the back
seat of the car. He had a bushy mustache streaked with grey, and a sparkling
diamond stud in his ear. He brushed my cheek with his finger and said, “I’m
Angel,” then poked the driver’s arm. “Get a move on.”
I caught the driver winking at me in the rearview
mirror and realized it was Rojo.
“You got it, boss.” Rojo said, and stepped on the
gas pedal.
I clung to the plush leather seat as Rojo sped the
car down the icy roads.
Angel turned up the volume of the radio and sang
along to Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” in an off-key raspy voice. When
the song ended, he leered at me through rimless spectacles. “So, what’s a nice
girl from Long Guyland doing with a couple of jerks like Ben and Chris?”
Did he know I’d been with both of them? Did
everyone know?
I-I guess I’m not as nice as you might think.”
Angel laughed. He had perfect white-chicklet teeth
and a sexy smile. “You’re cute, honey.”
Joey cleared his throat. “Laila’s a classy chick.
Too good for those dudes, if you ask me.”
Angel whacked Joey’s head with his hand. Not hard,
but enough to show he called the shots.
“No one asked you, jerk-face. Let her speak for
herself.”
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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