In CRISS CROSS, Evie Rhodes introduces Micah Jordan-Wells, a homicide detective who has seen the worst humanity has to offer on the streets of Newark, New Jersey. He's earned celebrity status for solving more murders than he cares to remember—especially those of the serial killer known as Silky, whose death relieved a city of one its worst nightmares.

However, a new predator walks the streets, tearing through prey like a riptide, and leaving evidence pointing to Micah. Accused of murder, under suspicion by his fellow officers, and tormented by visions of the brutal slayings, Micah is enslaved to the cruel manipulations of an unfathomable mind—one connected to his own.

Rhodes, one of the few writers—and perhaps the only African American—to write religious thrillers, knows that some may see the marrying of a supernatural thriller with her religious sensibility as unusual, just as her combination of "spiritual lit" and "street lit" travels newly broken ground. She believes that the classic story of good and evil endures, and has even deeper meaning in today's turbulent times.