Readers will immediately understand the frustrating, unavoidable struggles of both Delie and Champ, and revel in their hard-won happily ever after. Huguley writes a beautiful, inspirational romance, balancing the spiritual overtones of the genre with the emotional connection between Champ and Delie, set amid the stark reality of black life in the American South of 1935, in the thick of Jim Crow. Boxing now threatens Champion's eyesight, but he is committed to a final fight, one that could pay him enough money to retire - with Delie. He had left to make himself into a man who would be worthy of her, becoming a boxer, hoping to win enough to return and give her the life she deserved. Unfortunately for Delie (and fortunately for readers), her prayers go unanswered when Champion turns up hours later, resurrecting memories of their intense, emotional past. Readers meet Cordelia Bledsoe, the heroine of Piper Huguley's A Champion's Heart(Liliaceae), praying for help to forget Champion Bates, the man who left her brokenhearted seven years earlier.
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