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LADY LUCK'S MAP OF VEGAS
By: Barbara Samuel
Ballantine
January 2005
Featuring: India; Jack
304 pages
ISBN: 0345469127
Hardcover
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Romance Contemporary
A successful Web designer, forty-year-old India has a fabulously hip life in Denver and a sexy Irish lover in New York who jets out to see her on bi-weekly visits. The long-distance romance suits India just fine: Though Jack is the only man who has ever made India feel truly alive, she doesnโt want things to get too serious. But then her father passes away, and India must honor the promise she made to him: to look after her mother when heโs gone. Suddenly India finds herself back in Colorado Springs with the woman who both intrigues and infuriates her. Eldora is sixty something and exquisitely gorgeous, but her larger-than-life personality can suck the air out of a room. True to form, Eldora throws India a curveball, insisting that they hit the road to look for Indiaโs twin, Gypsy, a brilliant artist who lives a vagabondโs existence in the remote mountain towns of New Mexico. It looks like India canโt avoid her motherโs intensity any longer, especially after she discovers stunning secrets from Eldoraโs past. Thirty years ago, Eldora regaled her twin girls with glamorous stories about her days as a Las Vegas showgirlโ stories of martinis and music at the Sahara, back when Frank and Sammy ruled the town. But the story of how she really ended up in Sin City, and the unsavory life sheโd run from with her daughters in tow, is full of details sheโs never seen fit to shareโuntil now. As mother and daughter sail down Route 66, the very road Eldora drove those many years ago, looking for Gypsy, while passing motels, diners, and souvenir shops, Eldora must relive a lifetime of memories that have tormented her before she can put them to rest once and for all...
AwardsRomance Writers of America RITA, Novel with Strong Romantic Elements, July 2006
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