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R. L. Lee was born into a lively and loving Italian-American family in a small railroad town in rural Northern California. It was a great, uncomplicated childhood where she indulged her imagination and dreamed of one day seeing the world.
After college, she ventured into the workforce at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business. She moved from the Bay Area to the state capitol and on to healthcare, law, banking, and financial services.
Between her career changes, she became a professional dancer, where she did summer tours with a popular local Big Band, and performed on television, at charity functions, and dance venues in and around the Sacramento area.
Her most enduring passion is storytelling, having previously written two novels, a theatrical play, and several screenplays. All My Love, from The Land Of Morning Calm, Book 1 of the Cara Youngblood Moon Novels, is her first foray into the published arena.
The Cara Youngblood Moon Series is a compilation of factual and fictionalized events, people, and places. It has been a four-year work of love, a journey of warm memories, and a realization of a long-awaited achievement.
R. L. Lee now happily lives, works, and writes in her hometown in Northern California.
Reviewed by Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite
I loved this book. For me, it was a walk down Memory Lane. Just looking at the table of contents, I knew it would be meaningful for me. Palo Alto and Stanford University. I've been there. Seoul, South Korea, 1988. I was there working for AP during the Olympics and back to my regular job at Army Headquarters in Yongsan, once the Olympics were over. Northern California, yes. Japan, yes. I had to read this book. My only fear was, what if R.L. Lee can’t write? It would have been so disappointing. I say “would have been” because, to my delight, All My Love, from The Land of Morning Calm is fantastic! I loved it. It brought back such strong memories from an important time in my life. It was just what I needed.
What impressed me most about this book were the descriptions of places, in other words, the setting. It would appear that R.L. Lee and I have been to a lot of the same places. The descriptions are perfect. Don’t get me wrong. The other elements of fiction were equally on point in this book. The characters are realistic. The tone is pitch perfect. The plot is good. But rarely have I read a book that featured so many places I have lived and those places were described so well. That was special for me, but it is a special story anyway. Sometimes you’re just glad you picked up a book. Pick up this one and see.
