Finishing Skills

Fiction. Set in pre-flood New Orleans this novel explores the world of women's boxing through the eyes and hands of a young business school dropout. "What it does is it dances. It comes rushing at you with blazing red speed, yet at unexpected moments, turns you with feline grace. Heidi Whitehill, the enigmatic main character of German-Polish descent who leaves the business world to pursue professional boxing, will first demand your attention, then command it, inspiring you to risk all and fight, work to finish what you need to finish, so you can finally be free"--Jennifer Paddock.