Alex Evercrest Series
(Detective Action & Adventure)
Alex Evercrest is a relentless Cincinnati detective known for precision, courage, and justice. Her cases push her to the edge — and she never backs down. Explore her journey across three powerful collections.
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Alex Evercrest—young, extraordinary, and impossible to ignore—doesn’t just transform the Cincinnati Detective Unit.
She upends it.
From the moment she steps in, the department is forced to face what it’s spent years pretending not to see: the racism woven into its walls, its habits, its silence.
Alex refuses to look away.
She and her white partner take on the cases everyone else sidesteps—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, reading 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:
“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 certain kind of person:
Steadfast.
Persistent.
Tenacious.
Unyielding.
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.
The killing made no sense.
Not the choice of victim.
Not the location.
Not the weapon.
A pencil !
Cincinnati froze.
Reporters swarmed.
Everyone agreed on one thing—
a deranged killer was loose in the city.
Then came the twist.
The suspect was in a wheelchair !
The department stalled.
Theories collapsed.
Nothing fit.
But Alex Evercrest didn’t blink.
If a woman in a wheelchair could
kill with a pencil,
Alex would uncover how.
And she would track her with the same relentless precision she brought to every case.
The chase was on—
and Alex hunted relentlesslty.
A huge thug throws a beautiful young woman from a highway overpass.
A homeless Vietnam veteran sees the murder — and becomes the only witness.
Alex Evercrest is pulled into the case, but the danger turns personal fast. The killer’s mother — a furious, unhinged woman,determined to avenge her thug son — tracks Alex down and bombs her apartment,
Forced out of her home and into the heart of the investigation, Alex crosses paths with the one person she never expected: the man who will become her soulmate.
Their connection sparks in the middle of chaos, forged in danger, strengthened by fire.
But nothing in Alex’s world comes easy. She hunts the worst people alive — and without fail, they try to kill her.
This case will change everything… including the way Alex understands love, loyalty, and her own future.
A fifteen‑year‑old kidnapping cold case roars back to life when Alex Evercrest’s new police cruiser is blown apart — a warning from the man who stole a child and and chained her in the Pennsylvania woods.
Alex becomes convinced the missing girl is still alive. She’s right.
Hidden deep in the forest, the girl has grown into a young woman — a survivor who has raised two daughters while chained to her captor’s world. She has become a brilliant, self‑taught artist, painting her hopes, her fears, and her dreams of escape.
When the kidnapper returns to kill her, Alex sprints across an open field, racing time, distance, and a madman. She reaches the young woman and her daughters just as the gunman arrives. Wearing her Kevlar, Alex shields them with her own body and returns fire, blowing away half the kidnapper’s face while her partner empties his weapon into the man’s back.
Mother and daughters survive. And the art that once kept her sane becomes her salvation — Alex shares the paintings with a curator, launching the young woman from prisoner in the forest to a widely acclaimed, celebrated artist.
A story of survival, justice, and a future reclaimed.
A traitor inside the department exposes Alex Evercrest and her partner Trey, triggering a coordinated ambush that nearly kills them both. Outnumbered and bound, Alex shatters her restraints and launches a daring escape that becomes the spark for a relentless hunt through the violent world of drug bosses, corruption, and betrayal.
As Trey fights for his life, Alex follows the trail from rural hideouts to the upper ranks of the Gulf Drug Cartel — and danger follows her every step. While fishing on Lake Michigan with Matt her soul mate and a decorated Iraq War veteran she met in the previous book, a second helicopter gunship attacks. Matt watches in awe as Alex’s lightning‑fast instincts take over. She boards a moving tug pushing coal barges, seizes an AR‑15 in the chaos, and brings down the gunship in a fiery crash that lights the the coal on the barge.
Even that isn’t the end. Alex dives overboard, surfaces calm and focused, and neutralizes the last attackers as they close in — proving again why enemies fear her and allies trust her with their lives.
Her pursuit climbs all the way to the cartel’s top leader, where an unexpected ally emerges: the cartel boss’s wife, known as the "Angel on the Hill," who names Alex “The Black Angel of the North.”
But Alex has one final target — the handler behind the mole who betrayed them. And when Alex Evercrest hunts, she finishes what she starts.
For readers who love:
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female‑led action thrillers
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revenge‑driven suspense
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drug cartel and organized‑crime thrillers
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strong, unstoppable heroines
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fast‑paced, high‑stakes justice stories
Maggot delivers a fierce, unflinching ride where loyalty has a price, betrayal has consequences, and courage is measured only by what you’re willing to do when everything is on the line.
Chicago is a city Alex Evercrest never expected to work in — until her mother, a prominent civil‑rights attorney, reaches her breaking point. Corruption inside the Chicago Police Department is blocking justice for her clients, and she turns to the only person she trusts to cut through the rot: her daughter.
A deal is struck at the state level, and Alex is brought in. But her mother has unknowingly placed her in the crosshairs of two powerful enemies — a high‑ranking police official and the Chicago Mafia.
The Mafia boss has a personal score to settle. Alex killed his predecessor, and he vows to end her life. Assassination attempts follow, each one more desperate than the last.
Johnny arms Alex with everything she needs — names, family ties, addresses in Italy — a full map of the Mafia leader’s world. A message is sent to the Angel on the Hill in Mexico, asking her to intervene and warn the Mafia to leave Alex alone.
The Mafia boss ignores the warning. He crosses the line.
And the Gulf Cartel, seeing an opportunity to seize Chicago’s drug trade, eliminates the Mafia leadership in a single, brutal sweep — all while Alex is away fishing with her family, unaware of the storm breaking over the city.
When she returns, the battlefield has changed. The Mafia is gone. The cartel has moved in. And the corrupt officers who enabled the chaos are still in place.
Alex turns her focus to them.
One by one, she uncovers the officers who sold their badges, and she floods the Illinois courts with their cases — forcing a reckoning the city can no longer avoid.
Chicago asked for help. Alex Evercrest delivered justice.
Morning sunlight glints off the Cincinnati skyline as Alex Evercrest pedals toward the police station, savoring the quiet before the day begins. She isn’t on a case. She isn’t chasing a lead. She’s simply riding to work — then a blue pickup triggers an ambush that tears the morning apart.
Instinct takes over. Alex dives behind an old Cadillac outside the public library, the only cover in reach. The car absorbs the barrage that should have ended her life. When the truck tries to flee, Alex fires two precise shots that stop the attack cold.
Matt arrives moments later to find her — still in cycling gear — in command of the scene. The Chief and Trey rush in, stunned by the Cadillac’s condition… and even more stunned when they discover her helmet and backpack were both struck.
Alex has no open cases. No warnings. No enemies she knows of. But the motive becomes clear soon enough.
The man who tried to kill her didn’t know her personally. He didn’t need to.
He grew up in a world where prejudice was taught quietly, reinforced subtly, and passed down like an heirloom. A world where success by someone who didn’t look like him felt like a threat. When Alex’s achievements made the news — a Black detective rising fast, earning respect, solving cases others couldn’t — it collided with everything he’d been taught to believe.
To him, Alex wasn’t just a detective. She was a symbol of a world he feared was changing.
Johnny, the Vietnam vet who has become her analyst and protector, finds the one clue the attackers failed to erase — a tiny manufacturer’s mark on the truck’s distributor rotor. It’s the first thread in a trail woven from resentment, indoctrination, and a lifetime of inherited bias.
The Chief orders Alex to take a vacation, convinced she’s in danger. He’s right — but distance won’t save her.
Because the man who tried to kill her isn’t finished. And fate brings the two togehter again.
The attack on Vine Street is only the beginning.
John had carried the truth since boyhood. As an altar boy, he was abused by the person he trusted — Father Chris. Now a lawyer, he turns to the one person unflinching enough to bring the man to justice: Alex Evercrest.
But Father Chris has vanished.
Fleeing to Mexico with stolen church funds, he hides behind a new parish and a new role — caring for children left alone while their parents work. He believes paying in cash makes him invisible. In today’s world, it makes him stand out.
Johnny finds the trail. Alex follows it. And fate delivers Father Chris to a city not far from the Angel on the Hill.
When word leaks about his past, a furious crowd gathers outside the cathedral where he’s taken refuge. Alex enters with a Mexican DEI escort close behind — and the priest attacks her with a ceremonial halberd in a desperate attempt to escape.
Alex evades the strike, flips over a pew, and draws the one‑inch belt‑buckle knife she always carries. As she lands on the stage, she disables him while shouting “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!” — a warning to both the escort and to Trey, who has followed her inside.
Trey never reaches for his weapon. He reaches for his phone.
On his own, he records the entire confrontation — every second of Alex’s restraint, every moment of Father Chris’s aggression, and the tiny knife that proves she used only the minimum force necessary. That recording becomes the evidence that seals Father Chris’s fate before the grand jury.
He was certain that his prayers for forgiveness would be granted. The answer to those prayers arrived in the form of a relentless pursuer. And Alex Evercrest’s response was nothing like he expected.
She would ensure he spent the rest of his time praying in a prison chapel.
A quiet apple‑picking trip turns explosive when Alex Evercrest rescues a young couple fleeing armed pursuers on a remote country road. An elusive clue — a black truck with twin rear tires — pulls her into a hidden network of independent criminal cells known as SLATE.
What starts as a peaceful outing becomes a nationwide manhunt.
Alex rallies her team and forges a rare alliance with the DEA and FBI, insisting her unit leads the charge. Together they launch daring operations across the country: A successful take down in Ohio, satellite‑guided tracking through Georgia’s backwoods, an airboat vault onto a Louisiana platform in the backwaters, and a face‑to‑face standoff inside an armed Alabama shooting range. A capture in the Mississippi woods and a thunderous shoot out in Seattle.
Each takedown pushes Alex and her team to their limits.
Each rescue brings them closer to the the unbelievable truth.
Only at the end does the full magnitude of SLATE’s crimes emerge — six women saved, and far more who never had the chance.
A country road.
A peaceful apple orchard.
And a case that demanded everything Alex Evercrest and her team had to give.
Alex Evercrest arrives in Hawaii determined to rest, recover, and finally breathe. She splurges on a stunning home built directly on the black lava, its private beach carved into the shoreline. The moment she sees it, she falls in love. She rents a red convertible Jaguar, ready for sunsets, quiet mornings, and a vacation without danger.
But Alex’s fame reaches the islands before she does.
Her Chief had asked Johnny to create a video showcasing their department for a national police seminar. Johnny included a brief clip of everyone — and then featured Alex. The Maui Detective Chief, a sharp and seasoned leader, attended the seminar, bought the video, and showed it to her team. One detective recognizes Alex excitrely shouts that she’d seen her on the beach.
The Maui unit tracks Alex down and pleads for help with a series of cold missing‑person cases.
Matt shakes his head and calls her a trouble magnet, but Alex agrees to assist — and soon realizes the disappearances follow a chilling full moon lunar pattern.
With Johnny’s help from the mainland, the Maui team narrows the suspects to three former classmates. Two are quickly ruled out. The third, a face in an old yearbook, becomes the key.
As the full moon rises again, Alex leads the Maui detectives on a daring rescue at a twin falls on the road to Hanna. In the final moment, she takes the only shot she can see to stop the killer and save the terrified young woman — a woman who later rebuilds her life and joins the Hawaiian police academy with the goal of becoming a detective herself.
When the case closes, Alex partners with her parents to buy the lava‑front home she fell in love with, turning it into a rental retreat that her friends and colleagues quickly fill.
First her sister.
Then her mother.
Then her sister’s lover.
Zelda killed them all.
And she’s just getting started.
For two years, the FBI and RCMP have hunted the ghost behind twenty‑two missing women.
Alex Evercrest’s team uncovers the truth everyone missed:
The victims aren’t women.
They’re men!
And there’s a grave at nearly every U.S.–Canada border crossing!
The body count isn’t twenty‑two. It’s eighty‑five… and climbing.
Zelda makes the mistake of coming to Cincinnati to see Alex for herself, the hunt explodes into a deadly game of predator and prey. A failed sniper attack in Montreal sends Zelda fleeing into the Canadian wilderness — and Alex follows the unraveling thread back to where the nightmare began.
One month.
Dozens of graves.
One relentless killer.
And only Alex Evercrest can stop the daughter whose sins stretch across a continent.
She doesn’t look for trouble. Trouble finds her.
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:
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killers who vanish without a trace
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crimes buried under decades of silence
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enemies who study her as closely as she hunts them
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and 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.
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Alex Evercrest Series
(Detective Action & Adventure)
Now a celebrated and relentlessly effective detective, Alex Evercrest finds herself in demand across the country.
But with her rising reputation comes a new breed of predator —
darker, more calculated, and far more dangerous than anything she faced before.
The cases grow harder.
The crimes grow more gruesome.
And the stakes grow deadly.
Yet Alex and her team move through each challenge with a rhythm that feels almost supernatural — a synchronous precision born from trust, instinct, and the kind of experience you only earn in blood and fire.
They are, in every sense, unstoppable.
There is a current in the air around them — a spark, a force, a kind of magic that seems to follow wherever Alex Evercrest walks.
And in this collection, that magic is tested against the darkest corners of human nature.
The drug trade is dangerous, unpredictable, and crowded. But the body‑parts trade? It’s clean. It’s quiet. And for one ambitious Cincinnati businessman, it’s the future.
Behind the façade of a legitimate medical‑supply company, he builds a thriving black‑market organ pipeline — fed by corrupt mortuaries, moonlighting surgeons, and a network of professionals willing to carve profit from the dead. His operation is expanding fast, with new branches planned for Cleveland and Sacramento.
The empire might have grown unchecked if not for a janitor — a man who sees too much, understands too quickly, and sets the entire factory of evil on fire. The blaze tears through the building, exposing the truth to Detective Alex Evercrest.
But the fire reveals more than the business. It reveals the human cost.
One of the most devastating moments comes when a surgeon — hired to dissect bodies for sale — turns over the next victim and finds himself staring into the face of the nurse he secretly loved. The horror of that discovery shatters him… and becomes a key turning point in Alex’s investigation.
As Alex and her team unravel the network, they confront a criminal enterprise built on greed, betrayal, and the cold efficiency of a marketplace that treats human beings as inventory. Body Parts marks the moment when Alex Evercrest steps into a darker world — one where profit is carved from flesh, and justice demands a fierceness few detectives possess.
His parents walked the wooded trails behind their home for years, never knowing the truth beneath their feet. They raised a polite, quiet son — unaware they were nurturing one of the most prolific serial killers in Ohio’s history.
For decades, he hunted young women across Cincinnati and the surrounding counties. Forty‑two victims. Forty‑two disappearances. Forty‑two skulls, each bleached, polished, and mounted in the spotlight on the third floor of his Mount Adams home — a private gallery of conquest only he ever saw.
He wasn’t a major supplier in the body‑parts trade. He wasn’t part of the organized network.
He was something far worse.
A predator who killed for himself — and only occasionally sold a body when he needed to dispose of it.
When Alex Evercrest takes the case, she steps into a labyrinth of old disappearances, forgotten reports, and families who never received answers. The investigation stretches across counties, linking decades of violence to one man who has hidden in plain sight his entire life.
And when Alex finally corners him, the hunter becomes the hunted. He cherished his forty‑two conquests. Alex makes him number forty‑three.
After the case closes, Alex buys the Mount Adams house — the same house where the skulls once hung. She transforms the third floor into an art gallery filled with Annie’s paintings, turning a chamber of death into a place of light. It is on that same porch that Aurea will one day be abandoned… and in a later case, where the Moonshine boss will come seeking death at Alex’s hand.
The Skull Collector is a chilling descent into the mind of a long‑hidden predator — and a defining moment in Alex Evercrest’s rise as one of the most relentless detectives in the country.
Comacho figured he could give the devil a run for his money. A drug boss with a reputation carved in fear, he vanished his enemies by dissolving them in fifty‑gallon drums of acid and shipping the remains across the country. To him, “sleepy” Cincinnati looked like the perfect place to expand — quiet, safe, and easy to control.
He had no idea he was stepping into Alex Evercrest’s territory.
Comacho’s operation thrives on intimidation. He recruits local bullies to push his product, turning neighborhoods into battlegrounds. One of their targets is a young Black man who only wants to protect his sister. When the threats escalate, he flees Cincinnati in the middle of the night. By the time he returns, his mother and sister are gone — vanished without a trace, leaving him with no idea where to begin looking.
It’s the bullies who bring Alex into the case. Their violence, their drug trade, and their connection to Comacho draw her straight into the heart of his operation. One by one, she dismantles the network — the bullies land in jail, and Comacho finally learns exactly where he’s going, because Alex lets him see it.
But the story doesn’t end there.
By sheer chance, Alex discovers where the missing mother and sister have gone: Chicago, where the mother — a nurse — has taken a new job to protect her family. And it’s Johnny’s sharp investigative instincts that locate the son on the East Coast, now a successful draftsman. Alex brings the threads together, giving a fractured family the chance to rebuild what Comacho’s world tried to destroy.
The Vanishing is a story of predators and protectors, of fear and flight, and of the relentless justice Alex Evercrest brings to those who believe they can rule through terror. Comacho thought Cincinnati was safe. He was wrong.
A Vengeful Mafia Boss sought to punish her !
She put up a show that surprised everyone !!
Assassins sent to kill her repeatedly failed !!!
The “Angle on the Hill” Sent her the Help she needed !!!!
Alex then stepped out of the shadows !!!!!
A moonshine owner kills a roque moonshiner !!
His body is thrown into the Ohio and get carried down river by a tree!!!
Alex and the team track her down !!
The Owner decides there in one more person that needs to die and sets out to make it happen !!!
He made it look like a lynching !
The case went cold !
The person who had been betrayed asked for help.
Alex came to investigate and what she discovered shocked everyone !!!!
Chase did not see a money grubbing jerk when he looked into the mirror !
But he was one !!
He put inferior implants into the jaws of his patients and charged them for the best quality !!!
His scam had enriched him and had left a trail of suffering patients.
Then his practice ran into the ditch when Alex Evercrest came on the case !!!
Liam eliminates the top CIA that he determines has endangered the US !!!
Next he imprisons key drug distributors and holds them in the Nine towers of Ku!
His actions draw Alex in !!!
Liam is confident that he will prevail as he continually flees from his pursuer.
He mistakenly believes he has the upper hand in dealing with the drug gangs !!
His greeting by the leaders of the drug network takes a twist he did not expect !!!
Alex is troubled by her lack of remorse for what she discovers !!!
A Young Man, Wife and Daughter run from a Brazilian drug lord !
They Leave Their Daughter at the only house where they Believe she will be Safe.
She is Abandoned ! They do not escape !!
Alex finds Aurea on her front porch !!!
Life has taken an upward turn for both of them !!!
The Oil Thief Thought he had it made !
The Inuit Eagle Eye Finds the Pipeline Tap !!
Alex Receives a Call and Goes to See the Northern Lights !!!
The Chase is Long and the End a Total Surprise !!!
Alex is recognized as the de facto leader of the detective unit.
Her reputation as "Cincinnati's Black Annie Oakley" is known across all police organizations.
She is sought out to solve tough cases.
She clearly is Phenomenal !!!
Collection Two Books
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Change is in the Air.
The New Replaces What Was !
Yet the Old Shapes the New !!!
A new Family Lives with the Old !!!
It is a most rewarding time !!!
New Direction
A Family Affair
Disruption
The Saint Lebuinnus Church Murder
A Serial Killer Escapes a High Security Prison !
Revenge is in the Air !!
Friends of the Target Respond in Mass !!!
The Script Flips !!!!
The Killer becomes the Target !!!
They lined up and took the risk.
They were looking for a high. And They often get it just before they die !!!
Drugs Flow Freely. Money Paves the Way !!
One Person is the Disruptor and t is not who you think it is !!!
East to West, North to South.
Each Lover is Lured by Beauty !
To a Black Widow’s Web of Death !!
A love gone Wrong !
A Death so Strong !!
It Becomes the Killer’s Song !!!
Alex is recognized as the de facto leader of the detective unit.
Her reputation as "Cincinnati's Black Annie Oakley" is known across all police organizations.
She is sought out to solve tough cases.
She clearly is Phenomenal !!!
Her ability to reach across societies boundaries and into the hearts of those she helps make her exceptional !!!
She is that unusual individual that has the intuitive intelligence that guides her to success!!!!