Shaved Ice — Del Staecker

THERE'S BEEN A SHOOTING, AND MY FRIENDS WERE INVOLVED. The words ricocheted through Trabue's head as he read and reread the shocking message from Nashville. Soon, he and Professor Bryan are plucked by helicopter from Florida and whisked to a horrific scene near Nashville where they must begin unraveling what happened while coping with their grief. Gradually, as they piece the puzzling bits of evidence together, they realize that the incredible evil of the Hart-Fellows empire that they exposed and destroyed two years before has somehow found new life and is now, impossibly, hiding in plain sight.