Publisher's Synopsis
Editorial Review Amazon Breakout Novel Award Expert Reviewer: What a fresh and timely subject for this book plot! I also like your irreverent writing style. With all the humor in your work you give an interesting commentary about the state of race relations in the US today. It was refreshing to read. There were so many laugh out loud moments... Passages come out of the blue but are explosive with truths. Priceless... Deadly accurate... After all the truth is the truth... race relations... the end of a marriage... the angst of adolescence... Well thought out and well delivered... Real twists on real life happenings that help make your words relatable. Jessica is a likable every teen. She's a great main character. Insightful and funny... Great pacing... Sure to be a best seller... Jessica is fifteen, and about to embark on an adventure with her beloved journalist dad that will lead her to the doorstep of immortality itself. But wouldn't you know - it's complicated. The Fountain of Youth that holds the promise of ever - after is owned by a pair of billionaire brothers on an island off west central Florida. Black militants and a gaggle of youth-obsessed Reality TV stars have recently discovered the existence of the Magic Water. The island, Crystal Lagoon, was once owned by runaway slaves. A modern black guerilla army, Ghost Posse, wants to seize it from its billionaire owners on behalf of a nascent black separatist movement. Ghost Posse is led by a charismatic rapper easily mistaken for Kanye West. His Reality Star wife (don't even ask), owner of a vast media empire of Reality Entertainment, has her own reasons for snatching control of the brothers' island and its Magic Water. Hint: Her name is Kammi and she hates wrinkles. Jessica arrives with her dad on the island to interview the brothers, who turn out to be beautiful nerds, just as the struggle for ownership of the Magic Water approaches a bloody climax. JESSICA GETS LUCKY provides a sharp satirical vision of prevalent American cultural absurdities as well as a comic take on the current state of race relations in our nation. Will Jessica fall in love with the island's handsome and mysterious billionaire owner? Will Jessica's good luck involve the redemption of her own fractured family? Will her parents fall in love all over again? Does everybody become immortal by the final turn of events? The novel ends with a Rolling Stones concert on the island. At novel's end, after her roller coaster journey, Jessica learns in life there is more than one way to get lucky.
