KC and Maurice are back in the van. The GPS is doing a thing again.

Ghosts Are Bigger in Texas is the fourth installment in the FrankiVerse Cafe Haunted Travel Guide series — eleven fully researched paranormal investigations and one location that does not appear on any standard map, spanning the full impossible breadth of the Lone Star State. From the cattle baron's cigar ghost presiding over Austin's most glamorous hotel to a dirt road in the Big Thicket where a light has been refusing explanation since 1903, from the oldest exposed rock on the continent to a WWII aircraft carrier that the Japanese reported sunk four times and could not manage to sink, Texas delivers the kind of haunted that matches its own mythology and then quietly exceeds it.

KC documents everything. Maurice talks to the ghosts and says thank you afterward. The brisket is treated with the same seriousness as the REM pod data. Some investigations are extremely active. Some are a clean bust. One produces a one-liner that the Hill Country absolutely earned.

Locations include the Driskill Hotel in Austin, the Menger Hotel and the Alamo in San Antonio, the Grand Galvez in Galveston, the haunted small town of Jefferson and its most reluctant house, Bragg Road and the Saratoga Light in the Big Thicket, the Devil's Backbone in the Hill Country, the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi, the Gage Hotel in Marathon, the Marfa Lights, the San Antonio Ghost Tracks, and the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells — plus a bonus Chapter 12 that does not appear on any map and is staffed accordingly.

This is Volume 1. Texas is too large for one book and everyone involved knew that going in.