An unlucky gambler, the essence of an alien being, and a brilliant, beautiful, doctoral candidate embark on an adventure unlike any they could imagine. This a story about a gambler who was very lucky for a long time, then very unlucky for just long enough to find himself in serious trouble. This is also the story of a young woman of surpassing beauty and remarkable intelligence, sometimes known as Ringo. Her father, the world’s greatest Beatles fan, is in the declining stages of dementia. This is also a story about an alien from a planet twelve lightyears from Earth tasked with the unenviable undertaking of repairing the damage he caused to the planet thousands of years ago.