Alex Evercrest, young, extraordinary, and impossible to ignore, doesn’t just transform the Cincinnati Detective Unit. She upends it...) She and her white partner take on the cases everyone else sidestep. The ones that keep seasoned detectives staring at their ceilings long after midnight.

With her partner at her back, she walks into crime scenes with a calm that unsettles even the toughest cops.She reads the chaos like it’s speaking directly to her. Her shooting is something else entirely: Unmatched. Unnerving. Dead‑center, every single time.

It doesn’t take long before she earns a name that hangs in the air like gunpowder smoke.

 “Cincinnati’s Black Annie Oakley.”

National attention follows—headlines, cameras, the whole circus.  But Alex never chases fame.  She chases justice.  And justice, in her world, demands a person that is: Steadfast.

Persistent.  Tenacious.  Unyielding.

From Cincinnati to the Canadian border, from hidden killers to international conspiracies,

Alex Evercrest and her elite team take on the cases no one else can solve.

The ones too twisted, too dangerous, or too politically explosive for anyone but them.

Across ten relentless thrillers, Alex faces: Killers who vanish without a trace, Crimes buried under decades of silence, Enemies who study her as closely as she hunts them.

Mysteries that force her to risk everything, including her team, her instincts, and her life.

Each case stands alone.  Together, they chart the rise of a woman who refuses to back down, no matter the odds.

Ten books.

One unstoppable investigator.  The series that readers say they can’t put down.

She lives by one rule: "treat others the way you want to be treated."

And the criminals who mistake that for softness learn the truth fast.

She treats them to something else entirely: a relentless pursuit, a pair of cuffs,  and a one‑way trip to court.  

She doesn’t look for trouble.  Trouble finds her.

When a powerful thug hurls a beautiful young woman from a highway overpass, a homeless Vietnam veteran becomes the sole witness to a shocking execution. Pulled onto the case, investigator Alex Evercrest quickly finds herself in the crosshairs of the killer's furious, unhinged mother, who retaliates by firebombing Alex’s apartment. Forced out of her home and deeper into a deadly underworld, Alex’s life takes an unexpected turn when she crosses paths with the man who will become her soulmate. Forged in chaos and strengthened by fire, their bond deepens even as a ruthless network hunts them down. In a world where the worst predators alive always target the investigator, this explosive case will change everything Alex knows about love, loyalty, and her own future.

A traitor inside the department exposes investigator Alex Evercrest and her partner Trey, triggering a coordinated ambush that nearly costs them their lives. Bound and outnumbered, Alex shatters her restraints to launch a daring escape, sparking a relentless hunt through a violent world of cartel bosses, corruption, and betrayal. While Trey fights for survival, Alex follows the trail to the upper echelons of the Gulf Drug Cartel. Even a peaceful fishing trip on Lake Michigan with her soulmate Matt turns lethal when a helicopter gunship attacks. Boarding a moving coal barge, Alex seizes an AR-15 to bring down the chopper in a fiery explosion. Stranded in open water, she calmly neutralizes the remaining attackers, earning the moniker "The Black Angel of the North" from the cartel boss's own wife. From rural hideouts to international syndicates, Alex pursues her ultimate target: the handler behind the mole who sold them out.

John carried a dark truth since his boyhood as an altar boy: he was abused by a priest he trusted, Father Chris. Now a lawyer, John turns to the one investigator unflinching enough to deliver justice—Alex Evercrest. But Father Chris has vanished, fleeing to Mexico with stolen church funds to hide behind a new parish. Believing his cash-only lifestyle keeps him invisible, he instead stands out to Alex’s brilliant analyst, Johnny, who locks onto his trail. Deep in Mexico, near the domain of the "Angel on the Hill," word of the priest's past leaks, drawing a furious mob to the cathedral where he has taken refuge. Storming the sanctuary with local federal escorts, Alex is suddenly attacked by the cornered priest wielding a ceremonial halberd. Relying on her lightning reflexes, Alex evades the blade, flips over a pew, and uses her hidden one-inch belt-buckle knife to disable him. As her partner Trey captures the entire act of restraint on his phone, the footage provides the bulletproof evidence needed to seal a grand jury indictment, trading a sanctuary for a prison chapel.

A quiet apple-picking trip turns explosive when investigator Alex Evercrest rescues a young couple fleeing heavily armed pursuers on a remote country road. Following an elusive clue—a black truck with dual rear wheels—Alex uncovers SLATE, a highly secretive nationwide network of independent criminal human-trafficking cells. Transforming a peaceful outing into a relentless cross-country manhunt, Alex rallies her elite unit and forces a high-level alliance with the DEA and FBI, demanding her team lead the charge. Together, they launch a series of high-stakes tactical operations across America: a raid in Ohio, satellite-guided tracking in the Georgia backwoods, an airboat leap onto an isolated Louisiana backwater platform, a tense standoff inside an Alabama shooting range, a pursuit through the Mississippi woods, and a thunderous final shootout in Seattle. Pushed to their physical and mental limits, Alex and her team bring down the syndicate, saving six women and exposing the full, horrific magnitude of SLATE's global crimes.

First her sister. Then her mother. Then her sister’s lover. A terrifying serial killer named Zelda killed them all—and she is just getting started. For two consecutive years, the FBI and RCMP have hunted a ghost responsible for twenty-two missing persons. But investigator Alex Evercrest’s unit uncovers a massive, jaw-dropping truth that international agencies completely missed: the victims aren't women, they are men, and a secret grave marks nearly every single U.S.–Canada border crossing. The true body count isn't twenty-two; it is eighty-five and climbing. Intrigued by her opponent, Zelda travels to Cincinnati to stalk Alex directly, leaving behind only a single clue: the letter 'Z' left at a waterfront restaurant. Following a failed sniper ambush in Montreal that sends Zelda fleeing into the dense Canadian wilderness, Alex plunges into a high-stakes wilderness hunt. Confronting dozens of hidden graves across a continent, Alex must deploy every ounce of her lethal training to permanently stop a monster whose sins stretch from coast to coast.

The River Fromt

A shocking crime. The killing made no sense. The crime scene was lewd.

Alex Evercrest was raised to excel. She graduated from Northwestern, passed the bar, left to become a junior sheriff in a small town. She was then recruited by the Black Chief of the Detective Unit. When she walked in for her interview and the bull pen went silent she realized that she and the Chief of detectives were the only two of the same color.

When the Chief introduced her, one of the detective disrespectfully asked whether she could shoot. She took up the challenge and followed the Chief to the shooting range where she shot the challenging detectives name on her target and put the final bullet in the bullseye.

The challenge was answered, the interview was over and she was hired.  The second challenge was finding someone willing to be her partner.  The Chief recruited a decorated Iraq veteran willing to be her partner.

Their first case was a murder that took place on the Cincinnati Water Front.

Together they follow the nebulous lead of an Artist’s pencil and when it leads to a museum curator in a wheelchair, the question of her competence gets raised.

But Alex was raised to confront and work through problems.

A second murder yields a faint clue left in the grass. It is the clue that leads again to the same killer.

Alex takes a chance and goes to the killers home.

When the door opens there stands the killer.

Her first case successfuly closed.

Little did she know that she would soon be recognized nationally for her astounding series of successfully closed cases and earn the moniker of 

"Cincinnati's Black Annie Oakley."

Alex Evercrest: Destined to be the Best!

A fifteen-year-old kidnapping cold case roars back to life when investigator Alex Evercrest’s new police cruiser is blown to pieces. The explosive attack is a lethal warning from a monster who stole a child and chained her deep in the Pennsylvania woods. Convinced the missing girl is still alive, Alex launches a relentless hunt into the forest. She is right. The captive has survived, raising two young daughters in isolation while becoming a brilliant, self-taught artist who paints her dreams of escape. When the kidnapper returns to eliminate his captives, Alex sprints across an open field in a desperate race against time and a madman. Using her Kevlar vest to shield the mother and children, Alex and her partner unleash a hail of gunfire to end the predator's reign of terror. Reclaiming her future, the survivor’s hidden art is brought to the world by a curator, transforming her from a forest prisoner into a widely celebrated, acclaimed artist.

A peaceful morning bicycle ride to work turns into a warzone when a blue pickup truck launches a sudden, devastating ambush against investigator Alex Evercrest. Diving behind a parked car for survival, Alex fires two precise shots to stop the vehicle cold. Stunned investigators arrive to discover that both her helmet and backpack were pierced by gunfire. Alex has no open cases or active warnings, but the motive soon becomes clear: the shooter didn’t know her. He simply hated her success. Driven by an heirloom of inherited bias, the rising prominence of a brilliant Black detective collided with everything he had been indoctrinated to believe. When her analyst Johnnie uncovers a microscopic manufacturer’s mark on the truck’s distributor rotor, the trail exposes a dangerous network of resentment. Ordered to take a forced vacation for her own safety, Alex soon learns that distance cannot save her from a killer who isn't finished.

When a prominent civil-rights attorney reaches her breaking point with systemic corruption inside the Chicago Police Department, she turns to the only investigator she trusts to cut through the rot: her daughter, Alex Evercrest. Brought in via a high-level state deal, Alex is unknowingly placed in the crosshairs of two dangerous enemies—a corrupt high-ranking police official and a vengeful Chicago Mafia boss seeking retaliation for the death of his predecessor. As assassination attempts mount, Alex's analyst Johnnie arms her with a comprehensive map of the Mafia network, stretching all the way to Italy. When the Mafia ignores a back-channel warning from Mexico's "Angel on the Hill," the Gulf Cartel seizes the opportunity, eliminating the Mafia leadership in a brutal sweep to claim the city's narcotics trade. Returning from a family fishing trip to a transformed battlefield, Alex focuses her fury on the corrupt officers who enabled the chaos—flooding the Illinois courts with their cases and forcing a reckoning Chicago can no longer avoid.

Pool of Blood

Seeking rest and recovery, investigator Alex Evercrest rents a stunning black lava-front home and a red convertible Jaguar in Maui for a vacation without danger. But her reputation reaches the islands before she does. Recognizing Alex from a national police training video, local detectives track her down and plead for help with a series of cold missing-person cases. Dubbed a trouble magnet by her soulmate Matt, Alex agrees to assist and uncovers a terrifying full-moon lunar pattern behind the disappearances. Collaborating with her mainland analyst Johnny, Alex narrows the suspect pool to a single face in an old high school yearbook. As the full moon rises, Alex leads a high-stakes rescue mission at a twin falls on the road to Hana, taking a critical shot to stop a killer and save a terrified young woman. With the case closed, Alex joins her parents to buy the lava-front retreat, opening a sanctuary for her colleagues while her rescued survivor enters the police academy to become a detective herself.