"A fantastic and fast paced adventure filled with so many interesting and fascinating characters. The chemistry between the weary battle scared boxer Dennis and the beautiful socialite Isobel is mesmerizing. I found this book almost impossible to put down and James Thayer has a brand new fan in me." --Midwest Book Review.
A desperate search for Poe's lost poem sparks the unlikeliest of loves.
For 150 years Edgar Allan Poe's poem, The Lost Land, has been missing, known only by rumor. Isobel Autrey is from a moneyed Garden District family, and could have been a belle of New Orleans society. Instead she became a professor of literature and a poet. Her brilliant detective work has revealed the possible location of the Poe poem. It can bring her worldwide acclaim in the only world she cares about--arts and letters--and she is desperate to recover it.
Dennis Jones is a veteran of a hundred sanctioned boxing matches and five hundred carnival tough-man events, and at age 34 he sports a cauliflower ear and thick calluses on his eyebrows. His main chances--in boxing and in life--have passed him by.
Though he doesn't know it, Jones has the key to obtaining the Poe poem and is soon swept up in the whirlwind that is the urbane, willful, and pedigreed Isobel. Their two wildly different worlds collide and their search for the lost Poe poem changes their lives forever.
Genre: Romance
A desperate search for Poe's lost poem sparks the unlikeliest of loves.
For 150 years Edgar Allan Poe's poem, The Lost Land, has been missing, known only by rumor. Isobel Autrey is from a moneyed Garden District family, and could have been a belle of New Orleans society. Instead she became a professor of literature and a poet. Her brilliant detective work has revealed the possible location of the Poe poem. It can bring her worldwide acclaim in the only world she cares about--arts and letters--and she is desperate to recover it.
Dennis Jones is a veteran of a hundred sanctioned boxing matches and five hundred carnival tough-man events, and at age 34 he sports a cauliflower ear and thick calluses on his eyebrows. His main chances--in boxing and in life--have passed him by.
Though he doesn't know it, Jones has the key to obtaining the Poe poem and is soon swept up in the whirlwind that is the urbane, willful, and pedigreed Isobel. Their two wildly different worlds collide and their search for the lost Poe poem changes their lives forever.
Genre: Romance
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