About Ferocious Foxy
Tom Kropp’s audiobooks and eBooks are free at Google Play Books.
Tom Kropp’s work has appeared in Chiron Review, Churches, Children and Daddies, Down in the Dirt, Freedom Fiction, Horror Zine, Short-Story Me, Flash Phantoms, Blood Moon Rising, Lowlife Lit, The Listening Eye, J Journal, Evening Street Review, Conceit, Spontaneous Spirits, Bracelet Charm, Spotlight on Recovery, Muscle and Fitness, Outdoor Life, Woodworker’s Journal and many other magazines. His play Jailhouse Confessions was performed at the Kennedy center in Washington, DC in 2019. You can find more of his writings at tomkropp.wordpress.com and Scars Writings websites.
This is a very action-packed romantic thriller. Lovely little Lily and her dog Foxy travel through the dangerous war-torn countries of Africa, Iraq, and then ghetto America encountering lots of charismatic characters. There’s lots of danger, adventure, atrocities, romance, and humor here. Lily originally meets Foxy when she takes a job as a maid and dog caretaker for a rich Saudi family that travels the world. At the time Lily is a poverty-stricken Filipina in Manilla and the job seems like a dream come true to travel the world while making money. Lily later becomes aware the family father has ties to terrorism and organized crime businesses. Lily’s subjected to atrocious sights as her dream job becomes a nightmare.
In America she runs away from her job, but the danger follows her with a vengeance. Lily crosses paths with terrorists and escapes repeatedly but finds herself in the New York ghetto struggling to survive as an illegal immigrant. She tries to go the honest route working for cash but keeps getting crossed up in dangers due to her neighborhoods and companions. She eventually has to flee the city to Washington, DC where once again troubles find her. Inadvertently she ends up implicated in robbing a crime boss and is on the run once again. Her friend Anita is actually the thief and shares the wealth with her in exchange for saving her life. The women then flee with Foxy to California in a ghetto area of LA. Anita is a recovering addict and relapses while living with Lily. Anita’s desperation leads her into another robbery from some local gang members. In that encounter, Lily is wounded and nearly dies, but Foxy saves her.
Throughout her travels, Lily falls in love with several different men, but all her romances seem destined for doom. She watches the first man she loves killed in front of her. The second man she loves plays her for a fool and then callously dumps her. Her third love is the boyfriend of a close friend and Lily finds herself ashamed to be cheating with a close friend’s husband. Lily also makes bad choices in the friends she keeps, like Anita. Although Lily is a very tough-minded woman, her choices in her personal relationships cause her constant disappointment and grief. She also possesses a very amusing sense of humor throughout it all. Her relationship with Foxy gets her through many trying times.
Lily eventually writes her own life story, and it’s made into a book that becomes a play in LA. She thinks her ship has come in finally. Unfortunately for Lily, the play producer and book publisher siphon off the royalties meant for her, and she finds herself in dire straits again. She thinks all is lost.
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Tom Kropp’s books audiobooks and eBooks are free at Google Play Books
Tom Kropp’s novels started as short stories he wrote that were published in well-known magazines such as Chiron Review, Churches Children and Daddies, Down in the Dirt, Horror Zine, Listening Eye, Evening Street Review, Freedom Fiction, Dark Harbor, J Journal, Lowlife Lit, Conceit, Muscle and Fitness, Outdoor Life and many other magazines. His play Jailhouse Confessions was performed at the Kennedy center in 2019. He has numerous fantasy and thriller novels available on Amazon. He is an avid outdoorsman, horse rider, martial artist, weightlifter and construction worker. He’s loved to read since childhood and prefers the feel of a paperback in his hand when choosing his reading material.