Short Stories > Crime

Detective Xavier Rose has grown up in Alphabet City and works with the police department to solve crime and cases. His journey has taken him many places in his career and as he works on the side of the law with the police, he starts to see and understand how the community is broken. He chronicles his life as a detective, the cases he deals with, the struggles to solve them and how things can change in a place where residents of Alphabet City don't trust law enforcement and government agencies to make it a safe place to live, grow and flourish…

It was a Tuesday in late May when the call went out for a responding officer to investigate the discovery of long-buried bones in the small community of Edgemont, Ohio. Deputy Sheriff Cliff Henry's uneventful career as a rural county deputy was about to change as he attempts to solve an old mystery. Was it an accident or murder? The investigation will uncover sins of the past and explain why millionaire Harvey Harrison's life has begun to unravel.