From the Author: Las Vegas in the seventies was a turbulent time. Sara is a small town woman from the heart of Minnesota, fresh out of treatment for alcoholism. Her mother's lipstick, in that perfect shade of rose, imprinted on a well-worn Colonial Hotel matchbook cover from Las Vegas, Nevada, was a piece of the puzzle. It is the beginning of Sara's story. Sara could wait no longer to find her mother's story and her own. She sets out to find answers to her mother's past and her own future in Las Vegas, a town filled with hippies, hookers, and tourists blended into a psychedelic quilt. Sara's story is part mine. Sobriety gave me wings so I could fly - Joan Rydberg