Bobby Johnson is desperately unlucky in love. One day he hears a beautiful, pleading voice come through his grandmother’s Truetone record player and he instantly falls in love. The only problem…she lived 70 years ago.

Born in 1908, Rachel Anne Praline is a white orphan raised by a God-fearing black woman in racially segregated Atlantic City. Against all odds, Rachel becomes a world-renowned singer from the 1920s Jazz era and, despite her fame, is faced with one tragedy after the next.

Follow along as this racially charged, tragically charmed story of Rachel Anne Praline unfolds. Will she overcome the overwhelming odds of love, loss, prejudice, abuse, the Great Depression, and two world wars? Will Bobby’s love for this intangible girl torture him forever, or will it free him to find new love and a newfound meaning for life?

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