The Neveda Escapists' Club
by Jane Lark
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GENRE: Women's Fiction: Thriller
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BLURB:
Zac senses the connection he has with the single
stranger within minutes of their meeting. She, like him, sought a place to
escape. But she isn't running anymore. He is. Ali falls into a holiday affair
with a troubled young man. She would never choose a man like him if she was at
home. So what will happen when the Las Vegas fantasy is over and her sunglasses
tinted view of the world returns to reality? She is supposed to forget
everything. It was meant to stop there...
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EXCERPT
The odds of him being a murderer were virtually none. The
odds of him being a rapist… I’d make sure we stayed in public places. A thief
or a trickster… They were real risks but if I did not leave my purse lying
around in his presence, so what. And even if he took my purse most of my cash
and cards were in the safe in my room.
If we went out I could have fun and forget about Joseph and
the past.
‘Yes.’ I took my first step into the proper spirit of Las
Vegas; that was why I had come here, not to hide in my room or aimlessly walk
about shops. ‘Thank you, I would like to meet up. Where?’
‘I’ll meet you outside the nearest Walgreens twenty minutes
after I have left the table. OK?’ The statement was made with his head down and
slightly turned.
‘OK.’
‘End of conversation.’
The waitress arrived with my drink as couples sat either
side of me filling up all the chairs.
He was less flirtatious with men at the table, but he still
smiled a lot and spoke to me at times in a way that brought me into the
couples’ conversation. Spending an evening with him would make Las Vegas
exciting. Nothing would be exciting on my own.
The woman arrived to replace Zac.
I stood up even before he had left. ‘I think that’s my
signal to give up.’ I had lost a hundred and sixty dollars. I walked away.
I cashed in the chips I had left then went to the bar and
bought a gin and tonic that I could drink quickly.
For a woman who a week ago had been a successful,
level-headed lawyer, I had lost my mind. Every bit of evidence, if I read it in
a client’s file, would say, do not do this. But I had come here to do what I
wouldn’t normally do and I had come here to fight fear.
The gin and tonic trembled in the glass as my hand shook
when I lifted it.
I drank the clear, deceivingly pure looking liquid in gulps,
watching the gilded clock behind the bar tick the seconds away.
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My Review
The Nevada Escapists’ Club is a great read. I loved how Ali and Zac met. They were quite the pair and I enjoyed the adventure they went on. Such a wonderful, relatable and likable characters.
The Nevada Escapists’ Club is the first book I have read by Jane Lark. It will not be the last. If her other stories are this well written, then I want to read all them all. This one gets full five stars from me. I highly recommend it!
I received this book from the author, but was not required to write a review. This review is 100% my own honest opinion.
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