Big John

Los Angeles. Fifteen-year-old Big John Hoover has strange tingly hands and an unstoppable appetite. But when he learns his dream girl could never love a 258-pound teenager, he wanders into a psychic shop searching for the secret to her heart. And though he's skeptical when the mystical madam has him draw the fit body he desires, he's stunned to wake the next day ripped and drop-dead handsome. Despite his hunky new form snagging him high-paying modeling gigs and the most popular chick in school, he's certain there must be more to life than being impossibly buff. And when the fortune teller returns to reveal why he feels so weird inside, he discovers he possesses a unique healing destiny that paints a deadly target on his back. Can this remade beefcake survive unwanted lethal attention? Big John and the Fortune Teller is the first book in the extraordinary Big John magical realism occult fiction series. If you like found families, exciting twists, and great responsibility with a supernatural spin, then you'll love Duke Tate's fun adventure.

It's October in the Florida keys, Fantasy Fest, the legendary Halloween carnival, is underway in Key West and Big John Hoover and his wife Angela have just moved to the artist enclave from Big Sur, California for John to pen a book. John has traded his bad food addiction for a liberal island diet of Cuban coffee, rum and Cohiba Habanos cigars. Out of the blue, he gets attacked in his sleep by a shadow being and a ghost appears at their cottage, which sends John and Angela running to Miss Anne, the Voodoo Queen of Duval Street who gives them some poignant advice she sees in her cards. No longer interested in John, Maggie May had a spiritual rebirth a few years back and now works at a psychic shop in Applebury, Vermont. She just so happens to fly down to Key West for a dose of sunshine, staying with her friend from Santa Monica High, Hank Judge, who is now a cop on the island. Meanwhile, an old enemy of John's tries to send him to his grave and John must figure out how to protect himself before it's too late. Maggie and John run into each other by accident and everything is ghosts and phantoms for the group. Will they see the light before Halloween eve on the key that never sleeps?