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    Lucky: A Novel

    By Denis Gray

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    It is June 1925, the dawning of a new, spectacular riverboat season, and Noble Princes 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. Luckys a talented young jazz singer. Von Bulow hires her in the year 1925, to sing in Princes band. But shes in New Orleans for other reasons: Lucky Martinsons on a personal quest to reconcile her past. Luckys left Harlem and her boyfriend Tolliver Williamsa fellow jazz musician Luckys in love with. Shes put her personal and professional life at risk in traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana to unbury truths and lies. Luckys sucked further into New Orleanss 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 Luckys singing ambitions, but Victor Malreauxa young, dynamic trumpet player in the Prince bandnurtures 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 diff erent reasons.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJul 22, 2010
    ISBN9781450241755
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    Denis Gray

    Denis Gray lives in Long Island, NY with his wife Barbara.

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