Tinkling the Ivory Tower

The story that started in the novel Her Schemes and Plans resumes five years later.

Things are not always as they appear. Often danger swirls unseen just beneath the surface. The narrator has to learn this the hard way-a long way from home, in a place where the stakes are high and the competition is fierce. Art and music can change people's lives for the better-or destroy them utterly.

Take a journey back to the Deep South in the early 1990s. A powerful nation is fracturing, and back in the United States a new President is waiting in the wings. The world is a dangerous place and is changing rapidly. Can the clues scattered around a venerable institution be deciphered in time to ensure no one else is harmed in the process?