In Out of Innocence, ten-year-old Chris Curry, the eldest of Audie Curryas four childrenaall by different fathersastruggles to maintain some sense of normalcy for himself and his three siblings. This is no easy job as audacious Audie, a planet without orbit, free-falls through the universe, dragging her four little moons in the wake of her destruction. Each dalliance with a new man and a new life in a new town for a new beginning ends up in the same sort of emotional rubble. The town of Halion and her latest aone true love, a Ricky Lee Steed, are exceptions only in the sense that they precipitate the most ruinous destruction. If not for Halion psychic Faye Louise Jacobs and her husband, J.Y., Chris would be doomed; however, with their help, he has a fighting chance to rise above the booze and drugs, the hatred and hopelessness, the predators and abuse, and the callousness and mean-spirited manipulations of a small Southern town.