"There's something reptilian behind those eyes."Large numbers of people start to go missing in Texas and one hotel seems to be the monolith behind their disappearances. Detective Rex Paler is about to hit career rock bottom. When he's tasked with tracing down the kidnapper, he discovers that the hotels owner knows more than he's letting on. Can Rex solve the case of a lifetime before the greatest musical on earth redefines what it means to be horrified?