Brandy Alexander. Namesfor a cold drink and a hot babe. In New Orleans the combination can bedangerous. So with a name like Brandy Alexander - it seems her life's coursewas already determined.  On the day she wasborn, her father and uncle waited in a bar and decided that Brandy would be agreat name for a girl with the last name of Alexander.  Her mother reminds her is it a great one for a stripper and blames Brandy--as if she had anything to dowith it. Being childhoodsweethearts with her police officer boyfriend,doesn't stop her from kissing a handsomestranger at a Mardi Gras Parade.    A kissthat rocks her world and complicates her life.Before she has a chance to find out his name or who he is -he is shot!  By the time an ambulancearrives, he has asked for her help in saving Isabella.  Isabella is not at all what sheexpected.  As Brandy tries to unravel the suddencomplications in her life, the Mardi Gras parade serves as a backdrop and foilto her search for answers. Disguised identities in crowded and narrow streets,colorful characters and a four-legged femme fatale add up to magic, mystery anddazzling reveals. Will Brandy ever find out the trueidentity of her Mardi Gras mystery man? Who is Isabella and why is she soimportant to him?   New Orleans is a character of its ownin this whimsical story of tangled lives, plot twists and historical references. Just as music is anessential part of New Orleans, so is the lyrical lexicon of club patrons, locals and a friend called Duck Man. Brandy Alexander lives up to her namein the first of The Go Cup Chronicle Series.She stirs up trouble but will she remain unshaken?  There's no place like New Orleans to have a good crime!