Lana has just gone through a divorce from her cold uncaring husband and has no uneasiness about staying in the huge house that her ex let her keep. Just for safety, she still has the locks changed. She has no clue of the excitement, the love, and the terror coming her way.
She also has a security system put in. The guy, Leon, who comes to install this new security system, had a pretty major crush on her in school. This crush hasn’t gone away. Once he sees her again, it turns into an obsession.
It’s never a secret that Leon is obsessed with her and will do anything to ensure he is the one who has Lana, but Lana doesn’t suspect a thing. Her uneasiness that something is wrong, a feeling that she is being watched, adds suspense early on in the story. This suspense is palpable to the reader, especially since you know who is doing the watching and how.
Creepy Leon believes that Lana is his. He is convinced that what he feels for Lana is love, but he refuses to let her live her own life because in his eyes, she must be with him and no other man. Jealousy and rage eat away at him, and these feelings only grow more intense as time passes. What will he do if Lana refuses to spend her life with him?
Strange things begin to happen in Lana’s house. A picture in a silver frame keeps ending up on her bed, but she isn’t the one putting it there. She finds a snake in her living room. There’s loud knocking on her front door at around 12:30 in the morning.
Her relationship with Roadking, a guy she met while doing research for an article, slowly becomes serious. He is nothing like her ex-husband, and she falls head over heel in love with him. The weird things happening in her house now escalates to cars being damaged and finally to murder.
No one except Leon knows why these things are happening. Lana has no idea the danger she is in. Until I’m able to read the sequel of this unputdownable book, I will keep wondering what is going to happen when the story continues.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. If you would like to purchase this awesome book for yourself or someone else you know, I’ve provided an Amazon link for you below.
Amazon Link: Boulder Girl, Remember Me When the Moon Hangs Low
Recommended Article: The Soundtrack of Life – Guest Post by Cynthia L. Clark
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Favorite Sentences:
In Lana’s mind, her life’s journey had been accompanied by an elaborate soundtrack of diverse music.
Note: The author has provided a list of all the songs mentioned in the story in the back of the book. The chapter each song is in is provided as is the artist and year of release.
He had become forbidding, detached, and sociopathic, feeling insignificant, worthless, and angry.
But after seeing her again, the seed for an obsession for Lana had been planted—this time with a crazed, dangerous, psychotic strength that would overshadow any adolescent crush that he had had before.
It was a great Harley jacket, but to Lana it represented something that she learned about herself—the emotional damage done by Lucas through his neglect had not destroyed her ability to feel.
Thoughts of evil acts of revenge swirled in Leon’s head like a tornado.
New Words Learned:
atole – a thick drink of Mexican origin that is made with cornmeal, water, raw sugar, cinnamon, and vanilla and is served warm
bizcochito – a crisp cookie of New Mexican origin flavored with anise and cinnamon
Note: The bizcochito is the official state cookie of New Mexico.
calamari – squid cooked as food, esp. as an Italian dish
Flatirons – The Flatirons are the striking, slanted, reddish-brown sandstone formations that make up a portion of Boulder’s foothills on the west side of town. They are Boulder’s most iconic landmark.
https://www.bouldercoloradousa.com/things-to-do/insider-guides/flatirons
fontina – a type of Italian cheese, semisoft to firm, made of cow’s or sheep’s milk.
Italian margarita – An Italian margarita is a twist on a standard margarita cocktail made with tequila and fresh lime juice. However, instead of an orange liqueur like Cointreau, an Italian margarita uses an Italian liqueur like limoncello, Aperol, or amaretto.
https://www.wellplated.com/italian-margarita
Macallan – single malt whisky
Negra Modelo – Negra Modelo, better known as “the cream of the beer,” is a Munich-type beer with 5.3º of alcohol that offers a balanced flavor and a delicate aroma of dark malt, caramel and hops.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/75/667
pad thai – a stir-fried rice noodle dish commonly served as a street food and at most restaurants in Thailand as part of the country’s cuisine. It is typically made with rice noodles, shrimp, chicken, beef or tofu, peanuts, a scrambled egg, and bean sprouts, among other vegetables
travertine tile – Travertine is a type of limestone that is formed by mineral deposits from natural springs. This sedimentary stone is created by a rapid precipitation of calcium carbonate, known as calcite. Other minerals mix together with the calcite to create unique swirls and movement that give travertine its distinctive character.
https://www.tileshop.com/resources/what-is-travertine-tile
tryptophan – an amino acid that’s found in foods like turkey, chicken, meat, cheese, yogurt, eggs, and fish
https://www.sleep.org/articles/what-is-tryptophan/
About the Author:
Cynthia L. Clark was born and raised in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in Boulder County, Colorado, where she continues to live. The tale of Boulder Girl, Remember Me When the Moon Hangs Low had circulated in her imagination for decades before she finally put it into words. She shares a love of rock and classic cars with the characters in the story. She earned a B.A. in Economics and J.D. Law degree from the University of Colorado Boulder. This is her first novel.
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