Drive Down Ruby Road

Life gives Dallas O'Donnell a swift kick in the rear when he participates in a dark rite of passage for the boys in the small town of Ruby. "Bloody Bill" Hawkins has been plagued by these teenage boys for years, suffering their torment each time they throw red paint on his porch. It's meant to look like blood-the blood of Bloody Bill's younger brother, who was shot twenty years ago on Ruby Road, just as he began his senior year in high school. Great student, great kid, the school's local football hero.

When Dallas is caught "red"-handed dumping paint on Bill's front porch, his county sheriff father sentences him to hard labor. Painting Bill Hawkins' house. All of it.

Every day Dallas walks down Ruby Road to work on the house, bringing along home-cooked meals his mother makes for Bill. Bit by bit Dallas forms a friendship with the old man and learns about his younger brother, Charlie, who shared Dallas's first love-tinkering with cars.

Bill takes Dallas out to show him Charlie's classic GTO that has been stored for twenty years in the shed, and it's love at first sight. The car is perfect, except for one minor flaw-a bullet hole in the driver's side door.

Now that Dallas has befriended Bill, he knows the kids were wrong. Bill could never have shot the younger brother he loved so much. So now it's up to Dallas to find out who really fired that shot, the night Charlie took a joy ride down Ruby Road.