Book excerpt: In My Brother's Song, Scotty's suicide leaves his family and his god family devastated. The Combs and the Hall children grew up as best friends as did their fathers. This tragedy is causing conflicts among the parents, while the young people just want answers. Garland, the youngest son of Scott and Sarah Combs, is not convinced the death was a suicide. His sweetheart, Hannah Hall, supports him as he strives to find any piece of evidence that can prove Scotty did not take his own life. They decide to follow Scotty's trail of the last two years of his life and, as they seek information, they begin to find themselves in harm's way. A web of deception is slowly being untangled and the two young people, despite the danger and the possibility that what they find will not support their belief that Scotty's life was taken from him, are determined to find what led to his death.