About Ray – Neon Secrets by Ray Lanfear

Ray Lanfear

Ray Lanfear spent more than sixty years in retail management and earned a Juris Doctor degree. After working with a law firm for six years, he brings a unique legal and business perspective to his fiction.

A longtime Las Vegas resident, he draws on real experiences and the hidden world behind the neon to create stories of crime, addiction, deception, loyalty, and betrayal.

60 yrs

Retail management across the West — people, pressure, and payroll.

J.D.

Earned a Juris Doctor degree later in life.

6 yrs

Worked with a law firm and learned how stories, evidence, and competing versions of the truth are built and challenged.

Vegas

Judy and I got married here in 1963 and saw Elvis live at the Hilton. Years spent close enough to the lights to see what they revealed — and what they concealed.

2026

Neon Secrets — the first novel, inspired by true events.

Retail management across the West — people, pressure, and payroll.

Earned a Juris Doctor degree later in life.

Worked with a law firm and learned how stories, evidence, and competing versions of the truth are built and challenged.

Judy and I got married here in 1963 and saw Elvis live at the Hilton. Years spent close enough to the lights to see what they revealed — and what they concealed.

Neon Secrets — the first novel, inspired by true events.

“Neon Secrets was born from years spent in Las Vegas, a city of dazzling brilliance and hidden contradictions. I lived close enough to its lights to witness not only what they revealed, but also what they concealed.”

Although names and certain details have been altered, the emotional and moral truths within these pages remain rooted in lived experience. This is a story about loyalty, betrayal, and the consequences of looking away in a city built to distract.

To Sophia Rose: When you are old enough to read these pages, I hope you discover that truth and love often ask us to make the same courageous choice.