Blue Notes of New Orleans

Marcus Fontenot was once the finest pianist on Frenchmen Street, until a single night stole both his music and the man he loved.

He built a New Orleans jazz club where he decides who gets heard and never takes the stage himself, guarding one unbreakable rule: nobody touches his piano.

Josh Keller blows into town on a one-way ticket and the last of his money, chasing the musician’s life his bitter father swore would break him, and he has already decided the grumpy owner who keeps correcting his sets is going to love him.

Hiring Josh was only supposed to fill a Thursday, yet the sunshine pianist plays the songs Marcus buried like they are the best news in the world and starts cracking a decade of silence.

Then a name from Marcus’s past walks back through the door with the one golden ticket that could take Josh away for good.