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The Girl from Long Guyland
by Lara Reznik
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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.
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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.
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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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