Love Means Nothing is about Joe Comstock, who fell from social and economic grace and wound up living above a riding stable in Marietta, Georgia. The story is of a life poorly lived and of that moment in time that changes everthing. To have missed that moment would have meant losing something that gave you a life so wonderfully rich that you shudder at the very thought that you might have arrived at that point in the universe just a few miutes too soon or too late. Washed-up tennis pro Joe Comstock finds that moment at age forty-eight when thirteen-year-old Stacey Engleman bums a ride from him at a roadside rest area while running away from her father, a sexual predator.