The Andi Alcott Mystery Files

Two years after the museum case that shook Private Detective Andi Alcott's sense of reality, she is tense and frustrated with her life. Money problems are at the top of her list of concerns, as usual... but now there is so much more weighing her down. Since saving her in that museum basement, things are more awkward than ever between Andi and her ex-childhood sweetheart, SCPD Detective Dante Ruiz. On top of her tumultuous friendships and financial woes, Andi feels that her life has become dreary and stagnant. But just as she closes her last open case and decides to try and take a cheap vacation, two new cases fall into her lap. One involves a local teen who has gone missing, her client being the boy's distraught father. Unable to bring herself to turn away someone in need, she agrees instantly to help find the kid. The other case is brought to her by none other than OOA thief Jax, who's returned to Sheridan County. At first she resists getting involved, certain that his brand of work wasn't anything she wanted to be a part of... but after meeting with Dusty, a mutual friend and local crime lord, Andi finds herself drawn not only into Jax's occult case, but also Dante's SCPD case involving the murder of a well-known but low level criminal. Meanwhile, Jax's newest case had brought him around the world, searching holy buildings for secret doors that were hidden centuries ago by the very first members of the Occult Observation Alliance (OOA)... doors that he must now destroy in order to stop a global catastrophe. At first he is thrilled when the end of his search brings him back to Sheridan County, and he hopes to prod Andi's curiosity until she agrees to spend time with him helping on the case. But as more things go wrong and he receives more information about what's behind those doors, Jax begins to doubt his place within the OOA and in Andi's life... especially when his case crosses directly into Detective Dante's path. For Dante's part, his life had spiraled down