内容简介：
Guns and students are a lethal combination, as Michael Foster discovered while teaching music at an inner-city Detroit high school. Caught in the crossfire of a loveras quarrel, his neck was grazed by a stray bullet ricocheting off the blackboard, missing his jugular vein by inches. Michael packed up his big city life and moved to a small southern town, only to find it was the wrong place to relax and unwindathere was nothing serene about that little corner of Texas He immediately learned that crooked politics abound. The day after moving into a haunted manse, Michael was arrested for kidnapping Hannah Brooks, a six-year-old orphan whom head never seen. Although he was a newcomer in town, he became entangled in a web of trouble that began many years earlier. In spite of an unusual chain of events that conspired during the summer, his new job at the high school is rewarding.