Michael LaPointe

After being captured and tortured by the psychopath Otis, teen cheerleader Riley Lawson escapes and informs her parents, who quickly sidestep sluggish FBI agents and take matters into their own hands. But the Lawsons' revenge plan hits a snag when Otis's unusual brother enters the picture.

A self-mutilating musician is slowly killing himself to leave an album that will be, he believes, his legacy.

Music contains in its essence a glitch, a conceptual puzzlement, a great riddle. The arrangement of notes on a piano is considered a crime against God, nature, and science by some and musical perfection by others. But who determines what a good sound is, what perfection is? Who has the correct answer to this musical puzzle? This is a history of science and music tale of music’s dirty little secret.​