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The Frozen Signal
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 11 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The fire tower sealed since 1989 is signaling again. And the woman this town has spent thirty-seven years blaming for the theft that sealed it is the only one who can explain why.
Wrenhaven's Hardwater Derby is gearing up for its fortieth anniversary, and the town has just announced plans to reopen the long-sealed fire-watch tower on Kestrel Ridge as a festival overlook. Sixteen-year-old photographer Piper Halloran is out on a routine night shoot when her camera catches something that should not exist: a rhythmic light blinking from a cab that has been chained shut since an $18,000 prize fund vanished and its accused warden fled town, decades ago. When the derby's anniversary fund disappears too, on the festival's biggest night, Wrenhaven does what it did the first time: decides an old story is easier than a new investigation.
Piper and her best friend Rey Castillo, the researcher who can always find the receipts, start decoding a signal nobody was supposed to see, while Theo runs derby-night intelligence from his winterized snack shack under continued semi-official protest. What's at stake is bigger than an old ghost story: a woman's freedom, a stolen fund nobody has ever properly accounted for, and a town's willingness to blame the same person twice.
Book 2 of The Wrenhaven Mysteries, where the clues play fair, the danger stays bloodless, and every book solves its own case. Read in any order; best in order.
A twisty, warm-hearted mystery for readers 12 to 18, and for anyone who grew up reading with a flashlight. Start with Book 1, What the Flood Kept, just $2.99.
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