A Ghost in the Music — John Treadwell Nichols

At forty-eight, Bart Darling is about to perform a movie stunt that will in all likelihood kill him.

Lorraine, his hillbilly girlfriend who is carrying his child, gives him an ultimatum: call it off or she'll split. Bart summons his emotionally distant, twenty-nine-year-old son Marcel from New York to help him hold on to Lorraine. But Marcel finds himself falling for Lorraine, even as he sorts out his ambiguous feelings for Bart.