Works by
Evie Rhodes
(Gospel Singer, Writer)

Novels

• Street Vengeance (2008 release)
  Eighteen-year-old Brandi Hutchinson may not have money or status, but she’s definitely got potential—MBA potential. She’s smart, funny, focused, and caring. But all that changes one night after a rap concert when the L.A.P.D. beats her best friend Q, leaving him paralyzed. That night, Brandi is filled with a vengeance that transforms her from a nice young girl with a bright future into Los Angeles’s most wanted woman—and the militant, insatiable leader of one of the fiercest female gangs in history.
  
  Fueled by rage, frustration, and bitterness, Brandi is soon unrecognizable—even to Q, who is now helpless to stop the escalating violence wrought by the girl he loves like a sister. Brandi’s intellect and guts are still there, but she’s no longer willing to use her power for good. Now it’s going to take one more tragedy, and a force greater than she can imagine, to stop the war Brandi is fighting—within and without.

• The Forgotten Spirit (A Christmas Tale) (2007)
  Click here to watch a video interview of Bea Dozier-Taylor of the blackPRINT Bookstore and A Walk In Truth Christian Books (162 Edgewood Avenue in New Haven, CT) and Evie Rhodes discussing The Forgotten Spirit.
  
  Award-winning gospel songwriter Evie Rhodes invites readers into the world of a young girl who inspires everyone around her and reveals that the spirit of Christmas can be found anywhere--if you just believe...
  
  On the surface, Jamie Lynne Brooks looks like your ordinary nine-year-old girl. She likes to skip, laugh, and play. But Jamie is far from ordinary. She has been blessed with a magical gift--a gift that will transform Jamie's world and all of the people in it this holiday season...
  
  Although her loving grandparents have raised Jamie in a protective cocoon, Jamie is wise to the harsh realities of the tough neighborhood she calls home. And her mother's absence from her life has only made Jamie wiser beyond her years. Yet she has managed to hold onto hope--hope for a better life for her grandparents, hope that her mother will return someday, and hope for anyone who's lost their way. After all, Christmas is a time for miracles...
  
  With its fresh, unforgettable heroine and the pure innocence that only a child can give, The Forgotten Spirit is a remarkable novel of love, new beginnings, and the amazing power of hope...

• Criss Cross (2006)
  Criss-Cross is a riveting tale of darkness, images and deceit being played out at the highest levels. It is the story of the mesmerizing Micah Jordan-Wells and his journey into an unfathomable unknown world. A world that is controlled by the spirit of mystique and artfully drawn prophecies that affects his very being. The plan - to upset the balance and history of human life, as we know it. If it is to be challenged or altered, it will require the denial of self and the courage to enter into a realm where the rules are different, and where the principalities of darkness reign.
  
  Exactly how do you break a legend?
  
  Micah Jordan-Wells is a celebrated high profile homicide detective in the urban city of Newark, New Jersey. The story begins in the murky shadows of the life of Evelyn Jordan-Wells. She is Micah Jordan-Well’s mother. She is also a channel. She is the channel through which his birth has been marked, making him the catalyst of a sinister, terrifying portal.
  
  When that portal is activated Micah finds himself on the wrong side of the most powerful killer who ever existed. There are none before him and none after him. The catastrophic power creates a damaging portrait unleashing a hatred that is malignant in its quest for power.
  
  When Silky, Newark’s most notorious serial killer dies squealing like a pig at the penalty phase of his trial, his death capitulates Micah into a swirling descent and raises the stakes to a terrifying level. Micah is accused of a murder he’s investigating. He receives a call from the dead killer, Silky. Another victim is abducted. Then a startling vision of the slain victims rocks his world, reversing the odds – rendering a horrific verdict. The face he has been chasing is his own. Oh, and his woman has slept with the enemy. Tick-tock. The clock is ticking, the time is running out, and Criss-Cross is the owner of his world.
  
  It’s a different world with different rules and the doctrine is not of this world. Neither, is the dimension of Criss-Cross who is illusionary and a power of great magnitude. Micah must not just capture another serial killer. This is not another notch in his belt. And, hunting down a body will not be enough. To win the game he must step in the heart of the killing field, he must step into the recesses of a supreme mind and alter that which is Criss-Cross. He must become what he’s not in order to be who he is. Because, Criss-Cross has already drawn his mark.

• Out "A" Order (2006)
  An eight-year-old child is dead.  A sniper’s real motive is cloaked in secrecy.  The father’s obsession with her killer will destroy a family, defy police logic and make him Newark, New Jersey’s most haunted man.
  
  A game of Hide and Go Seek, one child and two young men shatter the realm, penetrating darkness, as they become mere pawns of a generational hex.  The sniper moves into position.  In the crosshairs of his weapon is his target.  He zooms in.  The body drops.  An unearthly shrieking pierces the air.  The trees shake with an unknown spirit.
  
  The crime erupts in what appears to be street warfare. The father an ex-convict vows to find the killer.  He ventures forth with vengeance raging in his heart and blood in his eyes.  The murder is mired in diabolical insanity coupled with a legendary curse that is far more chilling than a street killing.
  
  Faith is challenged, shattered and rebuilt.  But most of all faith is renowned.
  
  The spirits are stirring. Good and evil are clashing. Only one woman’s desire matters.  Only one man’s bones are quaking from the reprehensible evils of the past.  Only one woman can foresee the river of blood that will be spilt and staining the streets. And only one child can stop that river from running.
  
  Out “A” Order is about betrayal in its rawest form.  It's about the power of a father's love for his child.  It's about tragedy.  But, most of all it's about malice and fear, penetrating and unrepentant, of the darkest kind. 
  
  What happens when you unleash a moment of insanity?  Your world becomes, Out “A” Order.

• Expired (2005)
  Tracie Burlingame. They said her eyes were synonymous with a chameleon. The birth of her sons was synonymous with murder. Harlem. Harlem, New York. The city is a Mecca. It has long been a breeding ground for some of the most astounding talent, the world has ever seen. That was before. This is now.
  
  When Tracie Burlingame becomes an unwitting pawn, drawn into a web of deceit as thick as quicksand, spun by a deranged mind, she finds herself sucked into a collage of insanity, and a world where nothing is as it appears to be on the surface. She is drawn into a realm, where the talents are being collected, starting with the youngest child she birthed, but the path is strewn with unimaginable evil, and The Unholy has clamped its sights firmly on Tracie Burlingame, pitting her between a psychopathic serial murderer and something much, much worse.
  
  While Tracie Burlingame struggles to keep her head above the muddied waters, while she fights to keep her remaining sons alive, and while she tries to stay one step ahead of the Harlem Police Precinct, she is summoned by the countenance of THE UNSPOKEN and there she learns that in order to win, she must choose a different weapon, a weapon that is foreign to everything she has lived and stood for. She also learns that out of the ashes of death arises great birth.
  
  Standing in a melee of death and intrigue, “Expired” is one woman’s journey. It is her struggle to rise above self, to rise above immeasurable pain, and the brutal slaying of her sons. It is her yearning to tower over madness, insanity and dementia not of this world. It is her endeavor to outrun the haunting of her past, and to dodge the payment that is being extracted in her present.
  
  It is her plunging exploration of that which you do not see, and her battle with an all consuming, encompassing darkness set in effect by a territorial psychopathic killer as she learns, that death isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you, and, that that which you do not see is sometimes the most profound.
  
  Expired is a voyage. It is a journey. It is the story of one woman’s pain and every mother’s nightmare, and how when push comes to shove, sometimes all a woman or a mother has, is her belief.
  
  Expired is simply the end of all things. Or is it?

Music

• Standing In Da Spirit (2000) -- Winner Canadian Music Award for Best Gospel Album
  All in all, Standing In Da Spirit includes a top-notch musical production, which fits its lyrics like a hand in a glove and truly gives a gospel nod of respect to Patrick Adams. This is a Gospel Hip-Hop CD which contains R&B, Soul, Pop, Street Beats and Calypso musical influences.