The Alacati Locket (ePub)

In a small, idyllic Colorado town, a group of friends stumble across a set of clues which could prove the innocence of one or their own. As they set out to gather enough links to a murder which occurred over fifteen years ago, they run into brick wall after brick wall, including the cops, who really don't want to delve into a closed case so far in the past. In the midst of all the evidence gathering, the friends stumble across the thought that maybe a serial killer is on the loose in the community, but they just can't put it all together to get the police to listen. Meanwhile, a Mexican drug cartel badly wants something one of the friends has and will stop at nothing to get it. After the first attempts at getting the information fails, the cartel sends in a dangerous killer who quickly closes in on his prey, but not before a rival cartel tries to thwart the efforts so they can get to the prize first. As the suspicious deaths start turning up, the friends know to tread lightly so they won't be one of the next victims. As the way it is in life, some of the friends throw caution to the wind to put all their energy into finding out the truth, and while doing so, blindly expose themselves to the evil lurking down the street. And while they move furiously forward on their quest for justice, a tinge of romance between two of the friends starts to smolder with neither of them knowing what to do about it.