From the award-winning writer of The Good House, The Living
Blood, and more, Joplin's Ghost is a chilling tale of a
star-in-the-making whose life goes haywire as she is haunted
by the ghost of a long-dead music legend. When Phoenix
Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club
when she was crushed by a turn-of-the-century piano. Now
twenty-four, Phoenix is launching a career as an R & B
singer. She's living the life young artists envy and seems
destined for fame and fortune. But a chance visit to a
historical site in St. Louis ignites a series of bizarre,
erotic encounters with a spirit who may be the King of
Ragtime, Scott Joplin. The music of Scott Joplin is strange
enough to the ears of the hip-hop generation, but the idea
that these antique sounds are being channeled by the
protegee of rap superstar G-Ronn is nothing short of
ludicrous. With growing violence in G-Ronn's inner circle
and a ghost bent on living forever through her, Phoenix's
life suddenly hangs in the balance,"" writes Tananarive Due.
Can the power of her own inner song and the love of a music
writer who believes in her give Phoenix the strength to
fight to live out her own future? Or will she be trapped
forever in Scott Joplin's doomed, tragic past?
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