Nora Burke is about to get the shock of her life. That strange sound . . . the one coming from the attic in her Grandmother's creepy old house. . . Nora is about to come face to face with that nightmare. And when she does. . . her troubles are only beginning

Austin Byrd is a dreamer. He's a misfit. Austin doesn't go looking for trouble. The problem is trouble generally comes looking for him. Take that unfortunate business at Ronnie Reagan Middle School. Setting a teacher on fire and blowing up the Band Room. That was just an accident. But that other thing. That lollapalooza laser fight at the Fairchild Funny Farm, that was intentional. Austin meant that. Every bit of it. That's why a top secret government agency has chosen Austin to find and defuse the Doom's Day Device. An extraterrestrial bomb that is about to blow up planet Earth.

In the Spring of 1963, a madman was terrorizing West Texas. Taunting the cops desperately trying to catch him, this cold blooded killer finally meets his match. For when his blood lust takes him to the little windswept town of Loving, a savvy woman sheriff joins the chase. When she gets inside the head of the Texas Ripper, all hell breaks loose. On the surface, Loving is a rip-roaring who-done-it. A pot boiler seasoned with a soupcon of gallows humor. At its core, it is a tapestry of gender and sexuality, friendship and family, loneliness and longing, and yes, loving. Pun intended.