Welcome...to the crazy world of Barnacle J. Peabody. There is humor, romance, cavemen, clowns, pirates, and even talk about zombies The Many Lives of Barnacle J. Peabody is a funny, witty, yet emotional, and risque, adventure and look into his many past lives. Hearts of Ladd author Ian Alford takes you on the magical journey of Barnacle, the accidental love child of his uniquely creative gay father and his goddess-like mother. Barnacle is deeply in love with his dying girlfriend Bella, and that devotion forces him to visit a shaman and take a hallucinogenic trip through time to find a way to save his girlfriend's life and figure out his own. Barnacle learns valuable life lessons, and clues about Bella's apparent demise, through his hallucinogenic adventures through the Paleolithic era, the Roman Empire, Medieval times, the Shakespearean era, and the roaring 1920s. Along Barnacle's journey he finds love, romance, exploration, mystery, thrills, and the meaning of life