Janie Riley lives a cheap, trailer-park life in suffocating Dallas, Texas. Until one night, the answer arrives, clad in his dark suit, gold tooth, and untamed eyes: Chuck Barley Kicker. But there's more to Janie than a colorless stripper with recurrent and damaging thoughts--a suicidal mother and detrimental doctor have shaped her into a dangerous, impressionable wild-child, and Chuck Barley Kicker is the perfect antidote to unleash every demon.