Collection Three

Family.  Legacy.  Revenge

Mother, and Survivor, blur into a single, unbreakable force.

After adopting Aurea, the young Brazilian girl whose courage reshapes every case that follows, Alex chooses a quieter life for her daughter’s sake.

She leaves Cincinnati behind and returns to the home where she herself learned what safety, love, and belonging truly meant.

With Trey, Johnnie, Linda, and Laurie joining her new detective organization, Alex builds a team rooted in trust and forged by shared purpose.
But peace is fragile. 

Aurea is kidnapped,
she faces a black widow killer.
Yet nothing compares to the rising storm.
In A Family Affair, Zelda, the serial killer who once killed an unbelievable number of people, escapes a Canadian high‑security prison. Her obsession has sharpened into a single mission:
Destroy Alex Evercrest and everything she loves.
Across these four novels, Collection Three delivers a sweeping arc of danger,
resilience, and found family.
Proving that the fiercest battles are fought not for justice alone, but for the people who make life worth defending.

A Family Affair

When Zelda escapes from a Canadian high‑security prison, the world shifts.

She has only one purpose left: to kill Alex. Word spreads fast. The people whose lives Alex has touched refuse to let her face the threat alone.

From the RCMP officers, to the FBI agents who trust her instincts, to Bill and Trevor who have stood shoulder‑to‑shoulder with her through the worst cases of her career, they all converge on Alex’s quiet hometown.

It becomes a united front, a wall of loyalty and gratitude built around the woman who has saved so many.
But Zelda is unlike any enemy Alex has faced. She is patient. She is precise. And she is coming.
As the hunt tightens, Alex realizes a truth she has always lived by: Allies can buy time, but they cannot fight your final battle.
When the moment comes, it is she alone, unflinching, and fiercely protective of the family she built, who ends the confrontation on her terms.
A Family Affair is a story of loyalty, vengeance, and the unbreakable strength of a woman
who refuses to be anyone’s victim.
It is the moment Alex Evercrest proves, once again, that she is her own last line of defense.

A wedding trip to Deventer in the Netherlands should have been a peaceful getaway for Alex, Matt and their daughter, Aurea. But when Aurea hears the story of a young man who

“jumped” from the tower of the Saint Lebuinnus Church, something feels wrong.

The town accepts it as suicide.

Aurea doesn’t. Her curiosity sparks an investigation of her own. Online searches reveal four more supposed suicides. Each within a day’s bike ride of Deventer, and forming a perfect cross on the map.
Alex praises Aurea’s instincts but remains cautious, urging her to bring the pattern to Johnnie.
Johnnie’s analysis confirms the truth: they appear to be murders, staged with precision.
Aurea has uncovered a calculating Black Widow in plain sight.
The killer realizes she’s been discovered and strikes first, attempting to kill Alex — a world‑renowned detective whose reputation has reached even her.
The attack fails, and the Black Widow is arrested in Deventer, put on trial, and seemingly brought to justice. But justice doesn’t hold her. She escapes custody and flees south, searching for a new life. By pure chance, she ends up at the top of a mountain, debating whether Spain or Italy will be her next home, unaware that Alex, Matt, and Aurea are arriving at the same final stop of their Rhine River cruise.
What follows is a confrontation no one expects. The Black Widow, twice Aurea’s size and certain she can finish what she started, finds herself facing a very different opponent.
Aurea, now a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, stands her ground with calm precision.
The fight is fierce, fast, and decisive.
And the Black Widow falls to the girl she dismissed as a child.
The Saint Lebuinnus Church Murder is a story of  intuition, courage, and the moment Aurea Evercrest steps fully into her own power.

She proves that the smallest warrior can bring down the deadliest predator.

New Direction

After years of chasing killers through Cincinnati’s and across the US.  Alex chooses a different kind of courage the courage to start over.  When she realizes Aurea, the daughter she rescued and adopted, is growing up without the safety and joy Alex once knew, she makes a life‑changing decision: She leaves Cincinnati behind and returns to the house where her own childhood was shaped.

But Alex doesn’t walk away from justice. She rebuilds it. In her hometown, Alex forms a new detective organization grounded in trust, loyalty, and the fierce protection of family.
Trey, her longtime partner, joins her without hesitation.
Johnnie brings his unmatched tech hacking instincts.
And Alex opens the door to, Linda and Laurie, two young women she saved when they were kids.
It is a team unlike any she’s led before.
New Direction marks the beginning of a fresh chapter: a quieter life for Aurea, a stronger foundation for her, and a new mission that blends home, heart, and relentless pursuit of the truth.
But even in this peaceful setting, Alex knows one thing for certain, danger has a way of finding her.

Disruption

Aurea has survived more than most adults. But nothing prepares Alex for the nightmare that begins when Aurea is kidnapped by a ruthless Mafia crew What they don’t realize is that Aurea is no ordinary victim.

She has Alex’s instincts, Alex’s courage, and a survivor’s fire that refuses to be extinguished.

Held captive, Aurea studies her captors, waits, and chooses her moment.
When the chance comes, she becomes something the Mafia never expected.
The Disruptor, the one who turns their operation inside out.
By the time Alex and her team close in, most of the Mafia leaders, fall to the girl they underestimated.
Alex must confront a terrifying truth: her daughter is growing into a warrior
shaped by violence, courage, and the legacy of the person raising her.
Disruption is a pulse‑pounding story of survival, transformation, and the fierce bond
between a mother and the daughter who refuse to break. What they don’t realize is that Aurea is no ordinary victim.

She has Alex’s instincts, Alex’s courage, and a survivor’s fire that refuses to be extinguished.

Held captive, Aurea studies her captors, waits, and chooses her moment.
When the chance comes, she becomes something the Mafia never expected.
The Disruptor, the one who turns their operation inside out.
By the time Alex and her team close in, most of the Mafia leaders, fall to the girl they underestimated.
Alex must confront a terrifying truth: her daughter is growing into a warrior
shaped by violence, courage, and the legacy of the person raising her.
Disruption is a pulse‑pounding story of survival, transformation, and the fierce bond
between a mother and the daughter who refuse to break.