The Stable Boy

<p style=margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri sans-serif;><em>The Stable Boy</em> is historical fiction. It is a love story a rags-to-riches story an anti-racist story and a triumph over injustice story. Taking place in the antebellum South it tells the tale of how a lowly slave... a hidden genius... defies all odds and becomes one of the richest men in America. In Pygmalion* style the young slave is taught proper elocution and English grammar a gift that takes him from picking cotton to dealing with some of the wealthiest and most powerful men in America. It's also a touching tender... if unlikely... love story between two young men... one a slave the other his owner. It takes the reader from the rural South to New Orleans St. Louis Chicago Philadelphia New York and London. It makes the incredible credible.</p><p style=margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri sans-serif;>*Pygmalion is the George Bernard Shaw play on which the movie MY Fair Lady was based. It shows how the gift of language can change a guttersnipe into a princess.</p>