Bøker av Ernest Keegan

Life is a mosaic of pieces that don't always quite fit perfectly together. Tragedy and reward both take their places in the life puzzle that is Caponi's Home of Champions. Its unavoidable fingers touching each and every one associated within its walls. Secrets of the past don't always stay that way. Revenge is a meal best served cold. In today's world, Dan and Marylou are what the gym rats would term old school. They hold friendships sacred. This time their friendship with Paul DeLuca could cost them everything, even their lives.

Longtime friend of Dan McClain and Marylou Caponi, elderly boxing trainer Cherry Red lay in a coma in a trauma unit at St. Margret's Memorial Hospital due to an overdose of a depressant drug. It happens to be the same drug found in the bloodstream of his fighter and now ex-champion Marco Bentley at the postfight urine tests. The State Boxing Commission now is investigating who, why, and how the drug was administered. The champion had faded badly in the late rounds, totally uncharacteristic for the dynamic young champion.. A fighter drugged? Sure. It's happened. The trainer, that's a totally whole other ball game. Who and why? What did he know about it?The winds of suspicion blow hot and heavy toward Dan and Marylou because the new middleweight champion of the world just happens to be their own fighter, Jake Conley, now waiting in limbo for the commission's decision. The loss of his title seems to be the least of Marco's problems. Betting heavily on himself has put him in a deep hole with the wrong people. Did the fact that Marco suddenly without explanation dropped Cherry Red as his lifelong manager just days before the fight bear on the situation?Dan and Marylou want answers of their own. Dan McClain doesn't care what he has to do to get the answers.

Marylou Caponi inherited the boxing gym she had practically grown up in from her late father. It isn't easy being in a male dominated business but her strong will and determination and savvy about the "e;game"e; make it work out most of the time. Dan McClain is her head trainer, a former fighter, a handsome leftover from her father's time. He and Marylou have been on and off lovers over the years. Now past 40 years of age but not appearing nearly so, she questions her own attractiveness to the opposite sex. Both Dan and Marylou deal with challenges, sometimes violent, brought to them in the new world order by their fighters, local drug dealers, pimps, muggers and cops looking for the easiest, quickest way to close unwanted cases, no matter how they do it. Theirs is and entangled love story minus the candy hearts and flowers.