Mova’s Jazz Cafe

About the Book

Amelia Cheryl Monet, a thirty year old New Orleans entrepreneur had successfully turned an abandoned warehouse in the Big Easy into Mova’s Jazz Café, the hottest chill-out lounge in the South. That is until August 29, 2005, when Hurricane Katrina destroyed not only the physical structures of the city, but many long-held dreams. Determined to keep her club alive amidst the mass exodus of business from New Orleans, Amelia thought the solutions to her problems would be within the musical incantations of a mysterious stranger. Enter London Zao Thomas, a wealthy womanizing jazz man from Chicago. Whose charismatic charm and good looks were accented by his mastery of the guitar. His talents would seemingly be the spark needed to not only revitalize Amelia’s Café, but her life as well. London would eventually end up taking Amelia on a journey of love and pain that would turn out to be more destructive than any hurricane could ever be.

About the Author

Roger Maxey was born on Thanksgiving Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the age of seven he and his family would leave the cold weather city of Milwaukee for the warmer climate of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It would be in Long Beach, Mississippi located just 65 miles from downtown New Orleans, where he would spend most of his formative years. Roger would go on to obtain degrees from both Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana and the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. It would be the historic tragedy of Hurricane Katrina would not only rekindle his love for writing, but it would reunite him with his long time High School sweetheart. Together they would relocate to the Atlanta, Georgia where they currently reside.