Bonnie and Mansour are meant to be: two children abandoned by their mothers from opposite sides
of the Black Atlantic who find each other in New York in 1968 and set about making music that
will change the world. Mansour's sound is unique: a fusion of Senegalese prayer songs and the
wild beats of East Coast American jazz. His voice soars and lifts carrying away the hearts of
all who hear him carrying away Bonnie a lost young American girl with her own troubled past.
As they travel together from New York to Paris to Rio and Switzerland Mansour's music forges
connections and breaks new ground. Soon it seems as though fame and unimaginable riches are
only a heartbeat away. But suddenly Mansour is missing. And Bonnie pregnant with his child
sets out to find him. Her journey and their story will take the reader across the globe and
into a world of sound as we chart the rocky course that led to their stars colliding.
