Lucky

ISBN-13: 9781450241748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 660 str.

Denis Gray

Opis

It is June 1925, the dawning of a new, spectacular riverboat season, and Noble Prince s Red-Hot Rhythm Band is set to play hot jazz on the Mississippi Walter Von Bulow, the owner of the Morning Queen, has recently discovered Lucinda Lucky Martinson. Lucky s a talented young jazz singer. Von Bulow hires her in the year 1925, to sing in Prince s band. But she s in New Orleans for other reasons: Lucky Martinson s on a personal quest to reconcile her past. Lucky s left Harlem and her boyfriend Tolliver Williams a fellow jazz musician Lucky s in love with. She s put her personal and professional life at risk in traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana to unbury truths and lies. Lucky s sucked further into New Orleans s network of mystery and intrigue once she uncovers these family secrets in a historical city where voodoo and superstition co-exist, and can destroy the people you love. Noble Prince nurtures Lucky s singing ambitions, but Victor Malreaux a young, dynamic trumpet player in the Prince band nurtures her soul. Victor falls in love with Lucky. But Victor Malreaux as well as Noble Prince are in for a rude awakening from Lucky Martinson; each for different reasons."