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Promotions is organizing a Virtual Super Book Blast Tour for The Girl from Long Guyland by Lara Reznik, a Thriller Suspense Book available now
from Violet Crown Publishers.
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awarding a $50 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour. So don’t forget to leave your comment!!!
About the book
THE
GIRL FROM LONG GUYLAND WILL BE ON SALE AT AMAZON FOR 99 CENTS ON DECEMBER 7.
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
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.
About the author
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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