May 1969. Robert Wolgast is a family man working a steady job as the Operations Floor Manager for the Briarcheck Refrigerator Company. When strange lights appear in the sky over his small canyon town of Palo Duro, and his wife, Charlotte, begins communicating with them through her spinal cord, their marriage begins to slowly unravel. Originally completed in 2020, Palo Duro is a sci-fi drama focused on marriage, regret, and time. It is the third novel by H.T. Boyd. Content This novel contains a scene of violence against an animal that some readers might find disturbing.