The Passion Of Belle Rio

Belle Rio is the memory of love, the gravity of passion, the inevitability of blood, and the irony of fate. Belle Rio - isolated on the Florida Gulf Coast - is as beautiful, passionate and comic as it is dangerous and violent. In a politically charged atmosphere, the past collides with the on-rushing future. Approval of the Net Ban Amendment in the '94 election guarantees collapse of the gulf coast seafood industry, an explosion of expensive resort condos & yacht marinas, and the irreversible tide of tourism. Years of racial tension explodes in one terrible night of hate and despair, the tragic consequence of a desperate secret passion. By the time the trust is revealed, no one wants to hear it. Life in Paradise will never be the same. Matthew McCutcheon, recently divorced, his life in shambles, is lost in Belle Rio, haunted by the memory of his mother disappointed in love, and the father he never knew. Andrew Percy, owner of Cleopatra's Temple of Love, a Panama City strip club is caught between Jai-Lai gamblers & Miami gangsters. These two men are unaware of the past they share. Liana Cates, the "Wandering Venus" a cheap Ava Gardner imitation and her daughter, Terri the Pirate, searching for her Destiny on the Wheel of Fortune are both seductive and dangerous. Patriarch "Bud" Hardaway, whose passion for life will destroy everyone around him patriarch, is larger than the world he inhabits, joins with Attorney, Francois Taghert, who exudes the fear of forbidden knowledge, in devouring as much of Paradise as possible. And the Reverend Carlton Thomas, the descendant of Renegade Indians and Runaway Free Negroes who sanctifies the Sugar Bowl hero, Cleve Thomas, the New Deion. "The Passion on of Belle Rio" is characterized as dark, comic pulp fiction smothered in melancholy.

• | Author: B0 May
• | Publisher: Honeyville Creative LLC
• | Publication Date: 1-Sep-21
• | Number of Pages: 306 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0578978857
• | ISBN-13: 9780578978857