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The Boxer and the Poet
James Thayer
Black Lyon Publishing, LLC
March 2008
ISBN#: 978-0-9793252-9-8
Contemporary
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Synopsis:
Locked in a desk for decades, a lost poem
destined to bring together the unlikeliest of partners ...
He’d been wrecked but good this time. At thirty-four, down-and-out boxer
Dennis Jones is loveless, motherless, penniless and
directionless. When he opens his eyes after a particularly brutal fight, he
sees a raven-haired, blue-eyed demon in the guise of an
angel. What she wants to do to his life is laughable, insane … Yet what does
he have to lose?
New Orleans Garden District socialite and poetry professor
Isobel Autrey needs a fighter. One who will do what she wants with no
questions asked. Someone who can cut through the obstacles
between her and Edgar Allan Poe’s last, undiscovered great work.
Weaving through ancient secret society rites, boxing rings, the New Orleans
underbelly and right back to high society, Dennis and Isobel embark on a
quest to revamp his life, find the poem and
possibly discover each other. If they make it—it’ll be close.
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"Do you know the Voodoo hoodoo that she do?" was the question Dennis Jones
asked himself on more than one occasion with things concerning Isobel
Autrey. If she set her mind to it, she could look at him with her
piercing blue eyes and he would do whatever she commanded. They came to
an agreement that she would help him with his boxing career and life in
general if he would help her retrieve a lost Edgar Allen Poe poem. Was
there a spell cast on them that made her dump every fiancée she had a few
months before her wedding and made him not really interested in any other
woman but her?
The Boxer and the Poet by James Thayer was an entertaining book. Dennis became a hero in
my eyes because even though he moved a lot, he always found time to go to
college. And at being thirty-four, he still wanted to go back to college
and get his degree. Isobel was a strange cookie. I never figured out
what she was exactly. Was she a voodoo practitioner or was someone
working charms on her? The romance was drawn out but the back and forth
flirting and hinting were there. Fun read overall.
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