Download or read book The Savage Paradise written by Bud Lawrence and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AFTER A TRAVELING PRIZE FIGHTERIS SENTENCED TO A WORK FARM, HE MEETS AN INDIAN GIRL; TOGETHER, THEY PLAN THE ESCAPE OF A LIFETIME. Inside a barn in a tiny Florida town, the last ?ght of the night is about to take place. Andy, a traveling prize ?ghter, enters the ring to jeers from onlookers. As the betting ends, the ?xed ?ght begins. When he throws the ?nal punch that knocks his opponent to the ground, Andy suddenly realizes he has been betrayed by his employer and attempts to make a hasty exit. No one is waiting to whisk him to safety. Andys life is about to change forever. After Andy is brutally beaten by an angry town mob that includes the local sheri? , he is unjustly jailed and sentenced to a work farm. Subject to hard labor by a brutal overseer, Andy thinks his life is overuntil he meets Oquilla, a Seminole Indian also imprisoned by the sheri? , who secretly plans to make her his woman. Against all reason, Andy and Oquilla fall in love and begin planning their escape. The only way out is through foreboding and perilous swamps. As Andy and Oquilla em-bark on a dangerous journey to freedom, bounty hunters relentlessly pursue the couple. Only time will tell if Andy and Oquilla will be able to outrun an evil sheri? and his lackeys.