Meet Arthur Combs, a child of a walled-in, treeless, subdivision, where the home owners’ association governs with an iron fist. He is not even able to play catch on the lawn, (for fear of harming the toxic grass) or start a highschool band in his garage, (the association deems it, “too noisy.”) A spineless accountant at age 30, Arthur works in a cubical in a high rise office building, where floor supervisors look over employees shoulders, like taskmasters. Not even the slightest personal effect is allowed on Arthur’s Desk. (Too distracting, say the taskmasters.) One day, fed up and mired down in evening rush-hour traffic, Arthur breaks loose and takes a back highway out of the city. He has no idea where he’s going. He has no plan. This is a jail break. Arthur is on the run, and about to discover the musical talent he never knew he had.

A ghost story with a difference. Savannah, Georgia, from the first days of the Civil War to the present, is the setting for this tale of a most unusual haunting. Luzette, only eleven years old when a stray bullet ended her lifetime, shares with the reader the account of her deathtime. Confined to the house by forces she struggles to understand, Luzette's spirit is at times a warm and welcoming presence and at others a fearsome specter. The changes to the house in which she died, the evolution of the cultural and social mores of the surrounding society, the people who live out their lives in the old house.

Simple strategies and ways of thinking for home, relationships, work.

Our lives are as hard as we make them.

It seemed like the safest neighborhood in the world, when newlyweds Robert and Sherri Croft moved into their new home. The lawns were perfect. The streets were quiet and clean. Although the place was a bit generic. Every house and mailbox was exactly the same design.

The sight of a neighbor, on his hands and knees, crawling across his lawn, trimming with a carpenters level, should have been their first clue that something wasn't right.

The characters are fictional.

The novel is based on actual homeowners association (HOA) horror stores.

The story is both hysterical and horrifying at the same time.