Leaving L.A.

By Rexanne Becnel

There's a first time for everything as thirty-nine-year-old Zoe Vidrine learned the hard way. She was pregnant Now the aging rock 'n' roller had to change her tune fast. Her plan: leave behind the temptations of L.A.--and her famous hard-partying ex who had got her into this mess--and return to her family's Louisiana homestead to regroup. It had been twenty years, and the Day Glo hippie haven where Zoe had spent an unhappy childhood was gone, remodeled in the signature pastels of her prim sister Alice. Alice's aesthetic sense was hard enough to swallow, but her holier-than-thou attitude set the stage for a showdown. Still, as the sisters gradually came to terms with their shared past, would there be a meeting of the minds? Talk about firsts

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037388107X
• ISBN13: 9780373881079
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Harlequin Next
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

interesting tale of two sisters

In Los Angeles, thirty-nine year old rocker Zoe Vidrine is stunned to learn she is pregnant. Knowing the party lifestyle would prove hard to resist and not wanting to harm the life she carries, Zoe decides to leave L.A. and her hedonistic druggie ex behind and return to her Louisiana roots though she left there without a look back over two decades ago to escape her ditsy hippie mom. Her widowed sister Alice does not welcome Zoe back though she allows her to stay at her farm. Zoe detests the holier than thou attitude of Alice, whose late husband was a minister. However, Alice fears her wild sibling's influence on her teenage nephew. Meanwhile newspaper editor Joe Reeves is attracted to Zoe, but though she reciprocates she trusts no one; not even her sister let alone a guy wanting her body though she admits he seems to desire her though she is pregnant. LEAVING L.A. is a fascinating family drama starring estranged sisters whose outlooks on life are dramatically opposite. Zoe, in spite of her sister's constant anger which seems unfair and misplaced is the more intriguing of the siblings as Alice is prim and responsible. Their relationship makes the tale as each sees the other as the great sinner with Zoe disgusted with the pious in your face religion of her sister while Alice detests her sibling's loose behavior influencing her son. Though the ending is way too simple for this family feud, Rexanne Becnel provides an interesting tale of two sisters. Harriet Klausner