Cheryl A Head Books in Order

In 1943, Georgette joins the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps while gifted musician LeRoy enlists to escape home. Their paths meet at segregated Fort Huachuca, where love and personal ambition collide with racism, military expectations, and the search for belonging.

Detroit private investigator Charlie Mack travels to Alabama on a missing-person case that opens into a family's long-hidden secrets. As a double murder complicates the search, Charlie faces danger alongside questions about her own life.

Attacks threaten Detroit's international auto show, sending Charlie Mack and her investigative team after a conspiracy stretching across national borders. Tracking financial connections becomes urgent as they search for explosives before the city's major event turns deadly.

Burned bodies among Detroit's homeless residents suggest a serial killer operating where few authorities are paying attention. When someone connected to her mother becomes a victim, Charlie Mack goes undercover amid drug trafficking and police corruption.

Charlie Mack's team must protect a client who hesitates before giving grand-jury testimony. Meanwhile, Charlie's jury service draws her into a criminal conspiracy, with attempts to influence a trial threatening both her work and personal life.

Charlie Mack's former husband becomes a murder suspect and disappears, prompting his new wife to hire Charlie to find him. The investigation also unsettles Charlie's relationship with Mandy, who worries about her feelings for her ex.

A wave of attacks on Detroit's religious communities brings Charlie Mack a case after an imam is killed. His children seek answers outside the police, while Charlie follows clues toward a hate group and wider political connections.

In 1929, a Black carpenter moves his family to Birmingham, where racist violence endangers their future. Generations later, Detroit journalist Meghan McKenzie investigates her great-grandfather's murder, confronting unanswered questions and threats surrounding the family's history.