Lord Byron's Ring

Revered and envied in the Oklahoma badlands town their mansion overlooks, the Burden's love affair is both lusty and lush, explicit and ethereal, their union seemingly impervious to life's entrapments. But while vacationing in Salzburg, Austria, their fortunes reverse when a blackmailing businessman, with enemies to spare, swoops down from the Panhandle oil fields to threaten Jack Burden's drilling ventures— only to turn up dead.

Motives of revenge and greed darken the plot, reasons which soon lead Drew into the path of murder— and to a medium who conjures Lord Byron's ghost.