Kirjahaku

Larry and Giselle move to Goosefield, a small farm in northern Canada. Giselles orphaned cousin Erika, comes to live with them but finds the transition from hot Trinidad to a tiny cold town very hard. They push her towards cycling and she turns out to be very talented. Cycling is her ticket out. Larry and Giselle have children and should live happily ever after but Larry secretly burns inside to ride the big races that he was cheated from. Maybe his chance will come and shock them all.

A Gypsy Romance is a novel about following your heart set in the world of competitive cycling. Giselle, tall and forbidding, grew up in Trinidad as a mechanic at her Dad's shop, looking for a sense of belonging and happiness and never quite finding it. Losing her shop she gambles her last penny on a school opportunity in Tucson but on arrival is turned away by politics, forced to walk the streets, alone and frightened. By chance she meets a store owner who gives her a job and chancing a meeting with Larry and his group of gypsies also seeking their fame and fortune but in professional cycling. Drawn together they find they can't live without each other. Stakes get higher with each cycling event until the final international race that decides if they stay together or must part ways. Larry and Giselle are an endearing odd couple among strangers in a competitive world.