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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 Ruffina Oserio for Readers' Favorite
Hello Again, from the Land Of Morning Calm: A Cara Youngblood Moon Novel (Book 2) by R.L. Lee is a powerful novel about coping with the caprices of life, relationship issues, and parenting, a book with an international cultural setting between South Korea and Northern California. Cara Moon has just returned home to her family in Northern California after a painful divorce from her husband, a Korean diplomat, Moon Hyo. With her wounds still fresh, she has to struggle to re-adapt to her rural setting and become part of the family again. But is this going to be easy for her with a son to raise alone and an unhealthy relationship with her best friend, Michael Lee? With her vast cultural heritage, having gained the reputation of a seasoned interpreter in South Korea, she has to choose between reconnecting with the world she once knew and remaining stuck in her rural area.
A very beautiful story that handles themes of change and family in a way that is rarely done. Cara is a powerful character, a professional in her field, a woman with great intelligence, but she is also a broken woman, a character dealing with changes in life that she never saw coming while she was engrossed in her career. R.L. Lee injects life into the characters and makes them a reflection of the different sensations readers are familiar with. The setting is beautiful and one has the feeling that it is well researched — the images come out vividly and the cultures distinctly. The colorful writing features insightful passages and streams of consciousness that allow readers to connect — emotionally and psychologically — to the characters. Hello Again, from the Land Of Morning Calm: A Cara Youngblood Moon Novel is a gripping, enjoyable story with strong cultural and psychological underpinnings.
