This is a quick list of the all identified businesses in the Mercyverse. Major businesses have links that will lead to individual pages with expanded details

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Business Description

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Hauptman Security
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: ,Washington & Los Alamos, New Mexico

Employer: Adam Hauptman
Employees
Butch
Carlos
Chris
Evan
Jim Gutstein
Joel Arocha | Fill-in Security Jobs
Hauptman Security (2+) Brooks Team
Hauptman Security (2+) Corolla
Hauptman Security Lawyer
Hauptman Security Marine
Hauptman Security (2+) Office
Kelly | Fill-in Security Jobs
Luke | Fill-in Security Jobs
Paul | Fill-in Security Jobs
Todd

Business Description
Moon Called

• keeping the humans ignorant of the magic that lives among them is a specialized and lucrative business

Blood Bound

• Adam developed a network of contacts after working for the government for forty-odd years⁴⁹

Iron Kissed

• has a lawyer on the payroll⁴⁹

River Marked

• until recently dealt primarily with government contractors; since the Reveal and Adam out as a werewolf to the general public, the business started to boom on other fronts⁰⁴
• actively looking for someone who could do most of the travelling but so far hadn't found the right person⁰⁴

Silence Fallen

• the firm had two or three charter companies that they used¹¹⁴

Storm Cursed

• has two bases of operation that mostly did hush-hush government contracts⁰⁷

Mercy's Garage
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Kennewick, Washington

Employer: Mercy Thompson
Employees
Previous
Alan MacKenzie Frazier Deceased
Gabriel Sandoval
Sylvia Sandoval
Present
Tad Adelbertsmiter
Zee Adelbertsmiter

Close Businesses:
Dojo
Pawnshop
Sav U More Self-Storage Facility

Business Description:

• a one-woman garage; Volkswagen mechanic; anything German-made
  
• in the older industrial area of Kennewick⁹; on the edge of Kennewick's high crime area⁵
  
• ten minutes from Mercy's Trailer⁹

Moon Called

• laundry and shower in the back of the shop⁸
• office on the side of the garage next to customer parking lot⁸
• from inside garage to the office has a gray door⁸
• through the office and into the garage¹⁹
• step by the office door¹⁹; single cement step outside of the office⁴⁶
• safe in the office²²
• street behind the garage; with a street light²³
• beside parking lot is an alley that allows access to the garage bays²⁷
• cement floor; a lift (first bay?)³¹
• in the far corner are big tool chests³¹
• second bay; harsh lighting³¹
• heavy garage door in the bays⁴²
• shelf on the wall in the far corner; big crowbar sitting on it⁴⁴
• has a window⁶⁸

Blood Bound

• parks at the far end of the lot⁵²
• room for four+ parked cars in the lot⁵³
• battered but comfortable chairs in the corner of the office⁵⁵
• corner of the shop; place for next restoration project⁵⁸
• big air conditioner⁶¹
• storage shed on the lot; has a lock; with a thermometer on the outside¹¹⁹
• has work benches¹³⁶

Iron Kissed

• deadbolt; new black keypad with shiny silver buttons¹⁵⁷
• new security system; alarm; cameras in the lot and inside the garage¹⁵⁸
• cameras; five in the lot; four in the shop; two in the office¹⁵⁸
• cash register in the office¹⁶⁰
• step ladder in the office to reach the higher parts shelves²⁵⁰
• two tool chests²⁵¹
• parts shelves line the far back corner; deep enough to house bit boxes of belts²⁵⁵

Bone Crossed

• camera placed in front of the door to catch the face of anyone breaking in⁴⁵
• every tool is exactly where it belongs at the end of the day²⁰⁶
• day-glo pink door; that will fade to orangish pink and be repainted brown or green³⁰³
• was run down looking but wall next to door newly painted bright white³⁰⁴

Silver Borne

• big heaters in the shop²
• hall to the office²
• behind the counter a used-to-be-white board with hooks with keys of cars being worked on and mystery keys²
• door between the office and shop⁷⁰
• six inch sill at the bottom of the big window⁷⁴
• door between the office and the garage is steel set in steel¹¹²
• battered chairs line the wall of the office¹¹²
• six chairs²⁶⁴

River Marked Frost Burned

• has a little boneyard (where remnants of a few dead cars were harvested for parts¹⁷
• it and parking lot well lit; new halogen lights¹⁷
• has an-alive-but-need-help parking lot; house at least 4 cars there¹⁷
• big first aid kit in the shop²⁵

Night Broken

• oversized bathroom; acts as a changeroom³⁶
• there's a monitor on the wall between the garage and the office; sits on a shelf on top of a rectangular computer box¹⁵²
• office has bit picture windows¹⁵⁵
• has a bolt-hole for her coyote at the back of the garage, on the top of the floor-to-ceiling shelves; an old wooden box; fake with no lid¹⁵⁷
• fourteen foot high garage¹⁵⁷
• back wall covered with a plethora of rubber hoses and belts hung semi organized¹⁶⁶
• has controls on the wall that operate the garage bay doors¹⁶⁹
• fire extinguisher on the wall¹⁶⁹
• has gorilla racks¹⁷²
• smoke detector in the office; above the counter; can be reached from a stool on top of counter to remove batteries¹⁷²
• after Flores fight; cavernous hole where the cement floor of the garage was¹⁷³

Hollow

• half the garage had collapsed after it had been tunneled under³⁹⁹
• there wasn't enough money made in the business to justify dumping more in⁴⁰⁰
• it would be an extra fifty or sixty thousand dollars after the insurance money to rebuild; many things needed to be brought up to current building code⁴⁰⁰
• lucky to clear fifteen thousand a year⁴⁰⁰
• most of the car fixed were older than Mercy⁴⁰⁰

Mercy's Side Hustle
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Kennewick, Washington

Employer: Mercy Thompson
Employees
Kim
Lee (C)

Business Description:

Hollow

• rebuild cars for the collector's market⁴⁰⁰

Aspen Creek, Inc |
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: N/A, Colorado
Employer: Bran Cornick
Employees
Charles Cornick
Leah Cornick

Business Description
Moon Called

• Alphas meet twice a year at the Colorado headquarters
• sometimes with their second and third

Hunting Ground

• owns a few hotels in a few cities⁵⁵
• has a charitable arm¹⁶¹

Fair Game

• had condos all over the place; Boston being one⁷¹
• made travel more discreet⁷¹

Accountant Columbia Basin Pack
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Location: Kennewick, Washington

Employer: Adam Hauptman
Employees
Lucia Arocha

Business Description
Fire Touched

• Lucia took over the accounting for the pack from Adam's business's accountant⁰⁶
• part of the budget brigade; Adam Hauptman Darryl Zao Zack Drummond⁰⁶
• discuss pack budget and make plans for the next six months⁰⁶
• pack has money for investments⁰⁶
• Lucia not quite comfortable enough with werewolves to argue with them⁰⁶

Accountant Mid-Columbia Seethe
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Location: Washington

Employer: Marsilia
Employees

Business Description
Blood Bound

Angel Hills Assisted Living
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Location: Yreka, California

Employer: Cathy Hardesty (Mother) & Cathy Hardesty
Employees
Angel Hills Receptionist
Letty
Mary Frank
Sheldon Underwood (Dr.)

Business Description
Wild Sign

• doesn't have a website or much information on the Internet¹⁹⁰
• hill country; four miles since seeing the last house
• topped a rise and abruptly in the tamed greenness of a well-tended landscape; two rows of trees lined a white vinyl fence line on either side of the suddenly paved road¹⁹⁰
• the road curved gently up to an opening in the high stone wall that surrounded the facility¹⁹⁰
• an elegant, if large, brass sign on the metal gates¹⁹⁰
• prosaic parking lot laid out before a large, graceful building that looked very much like a high-end private hospital or school; a very tall stone wall spread out from either side of the building and swept behind it, encasing something very securely¹⁹⁰
• an extra bump on the bottom side of the post that arched over to hold the light—camera¹⁹²
• most of the windows were the kind with a metal mesh embedded in the glass¹⁹²
• the isolation of the place made it feel more like a prison than a place of healing; that and the surveillance equipment and escape-proof windows¹⁹³
• the glass-and-bronze entry would have done credit to a high-end hotel; imposing reception desk¹⁹³
• a too-shiny-floored hall full of oversized solid-looking doors, most of which had dead bolts that locked patients inside¹⁹⁴
• gardens were lower than the building; five or six acres, completely enclosed by a ten-foot wall; hedges and the natural rise and fall of the land had been utilized to create small pockets of privacy¹⁹⁵
• in the center of the garden was a good-sized water feature with a waterfall on one end and a natural-looking on the other end¹⁹⁵
• the aura of the garden was very soothing; perhaps too soothing¹⁹⁵
• around the hedges an own steep flagstone steps¹⁹⁶
• a seating area overlooked the pond side of the water feature; stone benches edged the concrete platform; a scattering of low fountains burbled around the edge of the pond¹⁹⁷
• witch prison²⁰³
• torturing the old and infirm for magical power²⁰⁶
• second-floor offices²¹⁵

Arms Dealer
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Location: Spokane, Washington

Employer: James Blackwood
Employees
Corban Wharton

Business Description
Bone Crossed

• deals with specialty ammunition; most of it top secret government stuff²⁶⁸
• very successful with a variety of ammunition designed for killing werewolves²⁶⁸
• a silver version of the old Black Talon; silver is a lousy metal for bullets; it doesn't expand well; instead of mushrooming, this one opens up like a flower²⁶⁸
• Gerry Wallace designed tranquilizer darts²⁶⁸

Aspen Creek Craft Store
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Aspen Creek, Montana

Employer: Mundane (2) Craft Store
Employees
Owner/Operators

Business Description
Dead Heat

• little craft store¹²⁵
• one of the people who kept the store gives weekly quilting lessons to Anna¹²⁵

Aspen Creek Gas Station/Post Office
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Aspen Creek, Montana

Employer: Werewolf Store Werewolf Store (Wife)
Employees
Aspen Creek Young Man
Night Shift (2+) Kids

Business Description
Moon Called

• sells breakfast burritos; hot if not tasty

Cry Wolf

• sells candy

Unappreciated Gifts

• sells mediocre sandwiches

Aspen Creek Medical Clinic
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Aspen Creek, Montana
Employer:
Employees
Samuel Cornick
Aspen Creek (3) Doctors

Business Description
Moon Called

• has a clinic⁹¹
• where Charles took Mac's body
• Samuel was working at a clinic in rotation with three other doctors

Aspen Creek Motel
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Aspen Creek, Montana

Employer:Carl Stoval&Lisa Stoval Owner|Operator
Employees
Marlie
Mercy Thompson | Previous

Business Description
Moon Called

The old motel was built the way the motor hotels had been in the middle of the last century–a long, narrow, and no-frills building designed so guests could park their vehicles in front of their rooms.MC-79 had been run-down 1950's tacky; updated now to a rustic charm room #18 is on the side away from the road and as far away from #1 as it getsMC-83 except for number one, there are only three different locks for all the roomsMC-83 number one was the Marrok's safe room, specially designed to contain uncooperative werewolvesMC-72 has a reinforced metal doorMC-73 has a dead bolt operated by key from both sides; windows are barred; the vents sealedMC-75 number one served as a prison and hospital on occasion: sometimes bothMC-75 a bed and a nightstand permanently fixed against the wallMC-73

Aspen Creek Veterinarian Clinic
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Aspen Creek, Montana

Employer: Carter Wallace Deceased
Employees

Business Description
Moon Called

• didn't usually treat werewolves; dogs, cats, and livestock enough to keep him busy

Mexican Bakery
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Location: Pasco, WA

Employer:
Employees

Bonarata Corporations
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Location: Milan, Italy

Employer: Jacob Bonarata
Employees

Business Description
Silence Fallen

• has spider silk throughout the world
• owns corporations based in New York, Texas, Buenos Aires and Hong Kong

Brooks, Gordon, and Howe, Attorneys at Law
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Kennewick, Washington

Employer: Kyle Brooks Howard Gordon Howe
Employees
Angelina
Warren Smith

Business Description
In Red, with Pearls

• offices on the third floor³³³
• Kyle's office was down the hall and in the back³²¹
• a big conference room at the other end of the offices³²¹
• reception area³³³
• Kyle's office window overlooks the traffic below³³³

Iron Kissed

• works with two other lawyers and has an efficient staff⁵⁶
• has a luxurious office suite on Clearwater Avenue⁵⁸

Bubba's Basement Barbeque
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #2: Hunting Ground
Location: Seattle, Washington

Employer:
Employees
[Bubba's Waitress]]
Bubba's Cook

Business Description
Hunting Ground

• it's famous for its endless, endlessly good ribs⁶⁴
• its reputation was good enough that it had spread all the way to the packs in Europe⁶⁴
• a level street paralleling the Sound; a red neon sign proclaiming Bubba's Basement the best barbecue in Seattle⁶⁴
• an arrow that pointed down a wide set of steps to the basement of something that might have been some kind of bank or office building—it had that neutral upscale look⁶⁴
• double-door entrance; heady combination of beef, barbecue sauce, and coffee⁶⁵
• the restaurant was dimly lit; to the left, around a wall of shrubbery, through a swinging door, and into a room set apart from the rest of the place⁶⁵
• a discreet sign above the door noted that the room could be reserved for large groups for a smaller fee and could hold up to sixty people⁶⁵
• someone had made a hasty effort to clear a space for fighting because a couple of tables were lying on their sides against a wall, and chairs had been tossed wherever they landed⁶⁵
• a battered piano on a small stage in the corner of the main dining room⁷¹
• the piano was an ancient upright; someone had painted it black but the pain had faded to a dull gray, scuffed on the corners and sprinkled with initials carved into it; most of the edges of the ivory keys were broken, and the highest E key popped up on eighth of an inch higher than the rest⁷¹
• the house special was limitless ribs at a per-person charge⁷⁴

Charter Air Company|Aspen Creek
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #1: Cry Wolf
Location: Aspen Creek, Montana

Employer: Aspen Creek, Inc
Employees
Hank

Business Description
Cry Wolf

• Bran and Charles can both pilot
• little, six-passenger, twin-engine Lear;
• itty-bitty landing strip
• hangar big enough to hold two planes the same size
• other than the hangar, airstrip, there was virtually no sign of civilization; there was the smell of woodsmoke so it couldn't be as isolated as it looked

Charter Air Company|Goblin
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Location: N/A, Northern California

Employer: Austin Harris: Owner|Operator
Employees Matt Smith
Five employees¹²⁸

Business Description
Silence Fallen

• a small firm
• has five people who can fly from the US to Europe; four of them are humans; one werewolf¹²⁸

Christiansen Merc Group
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Employer: David Christiansen
Employees
Connor Christiansen
John-Julian Christiansen
Shawn

Business Description
Moon Called

• David started his own troop after being recruited by a military buddy for his mercenary troop; tired of taking orders
• decided to quit fighting other people's wars when his grandsons resigned their commissions and joined
• specialize in extracting kidnapped victims: businessmen, Red Cross, missionaries; get them out of the hands of terrorists

Contractor|A
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Hollow
Location: Washingon
Employer: Bill
Employees

Business Description
Hollow

• a friend of Adam Hauptman³⁹⁹

Deer Lodge Hotel
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #5: Burn Bright
Location: Deer Lodge, Montana

Employer: N/A
Employees

Business Description
Burn Bright

• not happy taking cash³⁰¹
• water was hot and the sheets were clean³⁰²
• Sage Carhardt was a guest³⁰¹

Dog Breeder
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Aspen Creek, Montana

Employer: George Brown
Employees
three or four people

Business Description
Moon Called

• breeds and crossbreeds; Irish Wolfhounds and English Mastiffs
• breeding very large dogs to explain away odd tracks and sightings
• won several national titles with his Mastiffs

Night Broken

• breeds all sorts of big dogs; mastiffs were mostly big sweeties⁹⁶

Dojo
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Kennewick, Washington

Employer: Sensei Johanson
Employees

Business Description
Moon Called

• just over the railroad track from Mercy's Garage⁰⁹

Bone Crossed

• in full summer the dojo smelled from a block away⁵⁶
• has an anteroom where the men usually change after class; has a bathroom for the women to change⁵⁷
• just a short hike across cheatgrass and down the railroad from the garage⁵⁷

Edythe Campground
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Location: Columbia Gorge, Washington

Employer:
Employees

Business Description
River Marked

The Fairy Mound
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Walla Walla, Washington

Employer:
Employees

Business Description
Moon Called

• bar where tourists go to see the fae¹⁵⁰
• the Walla Walla Fae Reservation is about forty miles outside the city¹⁴⁹

Happy Camp Mini Storage
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Location:Happy Camp, California

Employer:
Employees

Business Description
Wild Sign

Hickman Construction
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Blood Bound
Location:N/A, Washington

Employer: Boss Hickman
Employees
Mundane (2) Hickman Construction

Business Description
Blood Bound

High-Tech Company
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #2: Hunting Ground
Location:Seattle, Washington

Employer: Angus Hopper
Employees
High-Tech Company (2+) Staff

Business Description
Hunting Ground

• they put together programs to keep other companies running²³
• the company owns an apartment²³
• facilities used by the wolf conference²³
• lucrative²⁴
• has an elegant auditorium with oak accents, trimmed in fabrics of various brownish gray hues, understated and expensive; designed for sound⁸⁷
• a place where Angus Hopper hunted CEOs of large companies and captured them with images of the power his technology could give them⁸⁷

Horse Breeders Koch
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Location:Phoenix, Arizona

Employer: Koch Family
Employees
Walter Koch

Business Description
Dead Heat

Horse Breeders Sani
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Location:Phoenix, Arizona

Employer: Hosteen Sani
Employees
Kage Sani
Mateo
Morales
Teri

Business Description
Dead Heat

• do the whole thing: breed, train, show¹⁰³
• lots of people on the payroll, but they're diversified¹⁰³
• Hosteen thinks too much specialization is bad for business¹⁰³
• Hosteen would always run the business; never grow old¹⁰³
• train our horses but they train other people's horses as well¹⁰³

Horse Ranch
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Hollow
Location:N/A, Montana

Employer: N/A
Employees
Gary Laughingdog

Business Description
Hollow

• raise quarter horses, a few Appaloosas, and cattle⁴⁰⁹
• horse training⁴⁰⁹
• driven by the market; not a lot of profit in breeding horses anymore, and the ranch has no choice but to listen to market forces if they want to survive⁴⁰⁹

Insurance Company
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Location: N/A, Washington

Employer:
Employees
Sensei Johanson

Business Description
Bone Crossed

Intrasity Living
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Location: Kennewick, Washington

Employer: Tracy LaBelle
Employees
Izzy's Mom

Business Description
Fire Touched

• MLM: multilevel marketing company⁰⁹
• sells vitamins, makeup and essential oils
• vitamins are certified by two independent laboratories as toxin-and allergen-free⁰⁹
• has a product to cover up scars¹⁰
• “natural” and “herbal” products ¹⁰
• essential oil samples; stored in a teal box about the size of a loaf of bread with metallic embossed lettering “Instrasity” and “Living Essentials” that chased each other around the box in lovely calligraphic script¹¹
• most of the essential oils are just one—lavender, jasmine, lemon, orange
• orange oil; smelled really good and supposed to promote calmness; works in cookies and brownies¹⁷
• combination oils are more useful; blends are carefully measures for the best effect¹³
• “Gaia's Blessing”: peppermint oil with lavender, rosemary and eucalyptus, all natural oils blended together¹²
• “Healing Touch”: Vitamin E with tea tree oil and lavender; works for jock itch, ringworm, psoriasis and acne¹²
• “Good Vibrations”: rose oil with lavender, lemon and mint: elevates mood and makes your life go a little smoother¹⁴
• Unnamed ;guaranteed to improve your love life or your money back¹⁴
• “Rest Well”: St. John's wort with lavender and orange; anti-nudge, not quite chemical castration but it will bring your life back into balance¹⁵
• offered 10 percent discount for names and numbers of friends¹⁶

Irish Pub
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Gray
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Employer:
Employees
Irish Pub Bartender

Business Description
Gray

• Elyna O'Malley Gray hunted there until the bartender started recognizing her and gave her her regular drink without asking¹¹⁸

The Irish Wolfhound
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #3: Fair Game
Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Employer: Olde Towne Pack
Employees
Wolfhound Manager
Wolfhound Hostess
Wolfhound Waitress
Wolfhound (3) Servers

Business Description
Fair Game

• good fish and chips⁷⁹
• a big room for parties²²⁵
• just inside the door lurked a life-sized, wooden Irish wolfhound; around it's neck was a sign that read WELCOME FRIEND²²⁷
• a rough-sawn wooden staircase; at the top of the stairs, just past the restrooms, was a door marked for private parties²²⁷
• through the door was a big room with four trestle tables with chairs and benches mixed in²²⁷
• Celtic music filtered in through speakers in the ceiling
• specialty is bangers and mash

Jazz Club|A
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Gray
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Employer:
Employees

Business Description
Gray

• can fit around sixty or so crowded together¹¹⁸
• serves mixed drinks¹¹⁸
• hunting ground for Elyna O'Malley Gray¹¹⁸
• popular club in the Loop; attracts tourists¹¹⁸
• dark outside the club; has a private dark space around the back¹²⁰
• has a half-alley trap, no bigger than ten feet by twenty for a hiding spot¹²⁰
• was Pierre Colbert favorite club¹²⁸

Jazz Club|B
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Gray
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Employer:
Employees

Business Description
Gray

• closed for remodeling sign on the door¹²⁶
• not in a nice neighborhood¹²⁷
• a large room full of tarps, sawhorses and tools¹²⁷
• the walls had been newly painted a burnt orange¹²⁷

Kadlec Regional Medical Center
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Location: Richland, Washington

Employer:
Employees
Joni

Business Description
Blood Bound

KGH|Kennewick General Hospital
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Location: Richland, Washington

Employer:
Employees
Jody
Samuel Cornick

Business Description
Silver Borne

• through double doors that led to the inner sanctum⁴⁷
• X-ray storage room⁵¹
• past the curtained off rooms; white cardboard file boxes were piled up on racks with a feeling of imposed order⁵²

Lampson International
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #9: Fire Touched
Location: Pasco, Washington

Employer:
Employees
Marley
Mundane Lampson
Mundane Lampson Runner
Sherwood Post

Business Description
Fire Touched

• builds the world's largest cranes²⁷
• their headquarters is right at the base of the Cable Bridge; four stories tall, the glass-and-steel structure was distinctively odd; it looked very much as though a giant had picked up a pyramid, turned it upside down, and squished it back into the ground²⁷
• on the edge and just up the hill from the parking lot of the building was the Vietnam Memorial²⁷
• has a scrap yard with several old warehouses⁸³
• Transi-Lift LTL-3000; one of the cranes; nearly forty stories high²²⁷
• it's the largest crane they've ever built; it's not the biggest crane in the world but it is the largest twin-crawler crane in the world²²⁹
• was located in a warehouse district near the railroad; the whole area still showed signs of the army depot it had once been with long wooden warehouses laid out in orderly patterns²³⁰
• the crane was commissioned to build nuclear power plants; plans stalled with the Japanese tsunami²³⁰
• crane was a part of the Pasco skyline; in the daylight, the crane part of it was bright orange with sections of white, and the crawler part—this thing that moved with two tanklike treads each with its own control booth—was bright Lampson blue²³¹
• the crane is 560 feet tall and can lift six million pounds²³²

Butte Laundromat
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Location: Butte, Montana

Employer: Hao Xun
Employees
Thomas Hao

Business Description
Fairy Gifts

Law Office Spokane
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Location: Spokane, Washington

Employer:
Employees
Jean Ryan

Business Description
Iron Kissed

Loan Shark
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Redemption
Location: London, England

Employer: London (B) Alpha
Employees
Terry
Ben Shaw
London Pack (2)

Business Description
Redemption

• the whole pack worked for the Alpha³⁸⁴
• the Second, Terry did collections and was the only pack member to be paid³⁸⁴

Medical Clinic
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: N/A, Texas

Employer: Samuel Cornick
Employees

Business Description:
Moon Called

• Samuel set up a medical clinic; came back to his pack about two years before the start of Moon Called

Maryhill Museum of Art
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #6: River Marked
Location: Goldendale, Washington

Nite Owl Motel IA: Mercy Thompson Series #8: Night Broken
Location: East Pasco, Washington

Employer:
Employees

Business Description
Night Broken

• Tri-Cities doesn't have really dangerous neighborhoods, but east Pasco comes close⁵⁷
• motel one of those old ones with little rooms that opened out onto the parking lot; the kind they don't build anymore because they aren't really safe⁵⁷
• weak yellow illumination of the motel's parking-lot lights⁵⁸
• odorous motel rooms⁶²
• Warren Smith and Zack Drummond have both stayed there⁶⁵

Nonprofit for Homeless Shelters
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Asil and the Not-Date
Location: Spokane, Washington

Employer:
Employees
Case Manager
Tami ReidDeceased

Business Description
Asil and the Not-Date

• hires social workers²¹¹
• nonprofit involved with finding housing—temporary and permanent—for the homeless²¹¹
• macro-work: grant writing, property management, supervision²¹²
• work with city officals²¹²

Old Town Bakery
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #10: Silence Fallen
Location: Prague, Czechia

Employer: Libor
Employees
Werewolf Baker
Bakery Server
Bakery Waitstaff

Business Description
Silence Fallen

Opium Den|A
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Location: Butte, Montana

Employer: Hao Xun
Employees
Thomas Hao

Business Description
Fairy Gifts

• down in the mining tunnels⁷³
• would sometimes put arsenic in the opium to deter thieves⁷⁵
• customers all paid ahead of time or they didn't get in⁸¹

Opium Den|B&C
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Fairy Gifts
Location: Butte, Montana

Employer: Mr Wong Mr Luk
Employees

Business Description
Fairy Gifts

• sometimes took their nonpaying customers deep into the mines and left them in the maze of tunnels out of which they never found their way⁸¹

Pacific Northwest Laboratories
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Richland, Washington

Employer: US Government
Employees
Darryl Zao | Ph.D. Engineer
Ben Shaw | DBA: Database Administrator

Business Description:
Moon Called

• working on a government hush-hush project

Blood Bound

• affiliated in some arcane manner with the Hanford Nuclear Site¹¹⁴

PNL| Database Administration Division
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Redemption
Location: Richland, Washington

Employer: US Government
Employees
Amanda
Ben Shaw | DBA: Database Administrator
DBA Division Affair
DBA Division Affair (4) Members
DBA Division Doorway
DBA Division Head of Security
DBA Division (2+) Security
DBA Division Web Applications
Fitz
Karen Sinclair-Ramsey
Ken Lincoln
Lee
Lorna Winkler
Lorna Winkler (2+) Bosses
Marie
Mark Duffy
Mark Duffy Victim
Mel Dryer
Stan Brown

Business Description:
Redemption

• uses Prophet database³⁶⁵
• against company protocol to share unapproved programs and code with someone who worked for another company³⁶⁵
• code written by company IT personnel was supposed to be shown to marketing to see if it was a viable product³⁶⁵
• giant, cubicle-filled room³⁶⁶
• company library³⁶⁸
• men outnumbered women in the IT department by better than three to one³⁹³

Pasco Hotel IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Location:

Employer:
Employees

Business Description:

Pasco Wrecking Yard
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #7: Frost Burned
Location: Pasco, Washington

Employer: N/A
Employees

Business Description
Frost Burned

Pawnshop
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Kennewick, Washington

Employer:N/A
Employees
Tony Montenegro | Undercover Cop

Business Description
Moon Called

• around the corner from Mercy's Garage⁴
• had the nearest soft drink machine
• Tony ran the business as an undercover cop; low-key, cheerful, middle-aged man
• passed on to different hands after Tony's tenure

Plumbing Contractor
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Location: N/A, Washington

Employer:Peter JorgensonDeceased
Employees
Honey Jorgenson
Mundanes (6) Plumbers

Business Description
Blood Bound

Bone Crossed

• good at his job, and he had half dozen people (human) on his payroll²²

Private Detective/Investigator
IA:
Location: Kennewick, Washington

Employer: Brooks, Gordon and Howe: Attorneys at Law
Employees
Warren Smith

Business Description

Prophet Database Company
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Redemption
Location:

Employer:
Employees
Rajeev

Business Description
Redemption

• has a support line³⁶³
• they thought it would sound better to give their overseas India customer-service reps American names³⁶³
• they have a general number for IT support³⁶³
• the whole IT, computer geek, world called it the For-Profit database; the database was well written, but all the programs the mother company tried to sell with it were garbage³⁶⁵
• the Prophet was the gold standard of databases, the company that owned it got to sit on that reputation for everything else³⁶⁵

Real Estate Company
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: N/A, Washington

Employer:
Employees
John Cavanaugh Deceased

Business Description
Moon Called

• Realtor's sign on a tree farm proclaiming it sold

Restaurant|Greek
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #0.5: Alpha & Omega Novella
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Employer: George (A) George (A) Wife
Employees
Phillip
Greek Restaurant (2+) Servers
George (A) Daughter

Business Description
Alpha & Omega Novella

• a little Greek place tucked in the shadow of the L train tracks
• public seating; has private room with only one table

Restaurant|Indian-Vegan
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Roses in Winter
Location: Missoula, Montana

Employer:
Employees
Waitress (A) Indian-Vegan Restaurant
Waitress (B) Indian-Vegan Restaurant

Business Description
Roses in Winter

• the food was good²⁸⁴

Restaurant|Mexican
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: In Red, with Pearls
Location: Washington

Employer:
Employees

Business Description
In Red, with Pearls

• kitty corner from Kyle Brooks law offices³⁴⁹
• music was loud enough that human ears wouldn't hear private conversations³⁴⁹
• has fish tostadas³⁵⁰

Restaurant|Park
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #0.5: Alpha & Omega Novella
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Employer: N/A
Employees

Business Description
Alpha & Omega Novella

• near a park, one of the forest preserves

Restaurant|Romantic
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Asil and the Not-Date
Location: Spokane, Washington

Employer:
Employees
Host Romantic Restaurant
Waiter Romantic Restaurant

Business Description
Asil and the Not-Date

• quiet, romantic²⁰⁵
• small dark tables set with illusionary privacy in dark corner with soft music playing in the background²⁰⁵
• serves good wine²⁰⁶
• probably the most romantic restaurant in Spokane²⁰⁶
• dim lighting²⁰⁹
• serves good food²¹⁰
• front of restaurant has benches by the door²¹⁴
• relatively private alcove near it²¹⁴

Richland High School
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #3: Iron Kissed
Location: Richland, Washington

Employer: Richland Board of Education
Employees
Auriele Zao | Chemistry teacher

Business Description:

• educating the youth of the Tri-Cities

Richland Light Opera Company
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #2: Blood Bound
Location: Richland, Washington

Employer:
Employees

Business Description:
Blood Bound

• perform out of the Richland middle school auditorium⁴⁸
• performed the The Pirates of Penzance

Sales Trainer
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #4: Dead Heat
Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Employer: Chelsea Sani + Chelsea Sani Partner
Employees

Business Description
Dead Heat

• trains people to sell things⁶³
• a company that sells that training to other companies⁶³
• lots of companies hire them⁶³

Sasquatch Express-O
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Location: Happy Camp, California

Employer: Dana
Employees

Business Description
Wild Sign

• far side of town¹⁷⁴
• in a little hut¹⁷⁴
• one of those miniature house-looking places; covered with cedar shake shingles that made it look vaguely hairyy¹⁷⁶
• set up as a drive-through; when closed the car lane had an A-frame signboard blocking it that read Sasquatch hunting. Back at 4 p.m. so you can be up all night.¹⁷⁶
• closes from two to four¹⁷⁸
• two metal picnic tables between the coffee shop and the snow cone stand¹⁷⁶
• parking lot beside the coffee shop¹⁷⁶

Sav U More Self-Storage Facility
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Kennewick, Washington

Business Description
Moon Called

• behind Mercy's Garage; across the alley²⁷
• surrounded by a chain-link fence²⁷
• has cameras³⁷

Scorci's
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #0.5: Alpha & Omega Novella
Location: Oak Park, Illinois

Employer: Tim
Employees
Anna Cornick | Previous

Business Description
Alpha & Omega Novella

• Italian restaurant; best Italian restaurant in Chicago; best gnocchi in Chicago
• boss wouldn't let servers work more than fifty hours a week; free meal each shift

Snow Cone Stand
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Location:Happy Camp, California

Employer: N/A
Employees
Zander Fernwood Deceased

Business Description
Wild Sign

• two metal picnic tables between the Sasquatch Express-O and the snow cone stand¹⁷⁶
• the stand itself was a ridiculous thing¹⁷⁶
• the functional part, a circular workstation about six feet in diameter, was covered with a cone-shaped plastic top painted a bright rainbow of color¹⁷⁶
• supposed to look like a snow cone; or maybe an ice cream cone¹⁷⁶
• a cardboard sign duct-taped to the side listed the prices for small and large cones in wide black Sharpie written in an even and readable hand¹⁷⁶
• parking lot beside the coffee shop¹⁷⁶

Simon Landscaping and Lawn Care
IA: Mercyverse Short Fiction: Hollow
Location: Yakima, Washington
Employer: Lisa Simon]\\ **Employees**\\ [[Lisa Simon Assistant
Simon (A) 4 Crew
Simon (B) 4 Crew

Business Description
Hollow

• business car is a gold Chevy Tahoe SUV⁴⁰⁰
• yard-care company centered in Yakima, but they service all the way from the Tri-Cities to Ellensburg—about a hundred-mile radius⁴⁰³
• do everything from designing yards to maintenance⁴⁰³
• two crews of four people each who work full-time⁴⁰³

Stop and Rob
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Finley, Washington

Employer: Stop and Rob Owner
Employees
Samuel Cornick
Stop and Rob Clerk
Warren Smith

Business Description
Moon Called

• 24/7 gas station and convenience store
• small office at the back of the store

Silence Fallen

• couple of miles from Adam Hauptman House
• ten miles closer to home than any other store that was open late

Taco Wagon
Tow Truck Service
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #4: Bone Crossed
Location: Pasco, WA

Employer:
EmployeesSweet-faced woman

Business Description
Bone Crossed

• small trailer laden with whiteboards that listed the menu with prices⁵⁰

Tow Truck Service
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #7: Frost Burned
Location:

Employer: Dale Dale Wife
Employees
Owner/Operator

Business Description
Frost Burned

Trading Post
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #6: Wild Sign
Location: Hour Outside Yreka, California

Employer: Ford
Employees
Trading Post Server

Business Description
Wild Sign

• just off the highway to Yreka, looked to be a gas station; all but buried in trees⁶⁴
• gravel parking lot; battered, flat-roofed building sported a ruff of cedar shakes like a tonsured monk on top; cheap paneling everywhere else⁶⁴
• siding was painted a blue that had once been dark but had faded to a blue gray⁶⁴
• pair of old gas pumps out front wrapped in battered yellow caution tape; indicating that part of the business was no longer in service⁶⁴
• lighted beer signs in the small dirty windows obscured what lay beyond⁶⁵
• sometimes a bar⁶⁵
• river nearby⁶⁵
• a lot of things stuffed into one building⁶⁶
• carpet was threadbare, with the floorboards peeking through here and there⁶⁷
• four card tables, of the folding sort, were squished together in one corner with stacking chairs⁶⁷
• half the space not dedicate to tables was stocked like a tiny grocery store, with refrigerated goods stored in a double-sided, glass-fronted fridge⁶⁷
• one of the walls consisted of a big walk-in freezer; a hand-lettered sign on the freezer door advertised locker space available above a price list for beef, pork, and venison sold in quarters, halves or whole⁶⁷
• remaining space was a very basic clothing store carrying jeans, blue T-shirts, a variety of flannel shirts and brown leather lace-up boots⁶⁷
• along the back wall, shelves offered enough ammunition to arm a good-sized militia⁶⁷
• in the corner next to the shelves was a huge old metal safe that looked very much like it belonged in a Hollywood Western-and-bank-robbery movei⁶⁷
• a door in the back leads outside; building has a service alcove⁶⁸
• no cash register; mostly don't use cash⁷⁴

Travel Agent
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #8: Night Broken
Location: N/A Washington

Employer: Adam Hauptman
Employees
Hauptman Security Travel Agent

Business Description
Night Broken

• the agent Adam calls to coordinate his not-infrequent business travel; both business and werewolf business⁰⁶

Tree Farm
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Benton City, Washington

Employer: Columbia Basin Vineyard
Employees

Business Description
Moon Called

• nestled just south of Benton City a small town about twenty minutes outside of Richland
• was closed; still acres of unharvested trees; maples, oaks and a few pine
• has a huge pole building warehouse nestled well behind a manufactured home
• sold and purchased by a local winery that intended to use the land to grow grapes in the coming spring
• aluminum side of warehouse
• interior of warehouse cavernous; filled with hundreds, maybe thousands of crates, pallet-sized with three-foot-tall plywood sides; warped by moisture and wear
• crates stacked three high or racks that reached almost to the ceiling
• smelled musty; there was a sprinkler system set up and drains on the floor
• had a section for offices

Tri-City Herald
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #11: Storm Cursed
Location: Tri-Cities, Washington

Employer:
Employees

Business Description
Storm Cursed

• local newspaper²¹³

Smoke Bitten

• has a Public Records section¹⁶⁷

Uncle Mike's Tavern
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Pasco, Tri-Cities

Employer: Uncle Mike
Employees
Biddy
Cook
Cover Charge
Fergus
Kinsey
Uncle Mike's opener

Business Description
Moon Called

• bar the Fae who don't want to be gawked at mostly hang out¹⁵⁰
• across the Columbia River from Mercy's Garage; near the Pasco Industrial Park¹⁵⁰
• old building had once been a small warehouse¹⁵⁰
• there were warehouses on either side, both heavily tagged by graffiti; the Tavern exterior was always pristine¹⁵⁰
• has a parking lot¹⁵⁰
• inside the bar was darker; stairs led from the entry to the bar proper¹⁵⁰
• the bar took up all of the wall on the right¹⁵¹
• a small dance floor cleared in the center of the room, with clusters of small tables scattered around the outside¹⁵¹

Blood Bound

• dumpster out back¹⁴⁸
• overflow parking in the warehouse's lot next door¹⁶³
• doesn't advertise for customers; Uncle Mike's is for the fae—though he tolerates most any kind of preternatural creature¹⁶³
• staff uniform; lincoln green tunic and hose¹⁶³
• cover charge desk¹⁶⁹
• small stage for live music¹⁷⁸

Bone Crossed

• the ceilings in Uncle Mike's are about fourteen feet in the air⁸⁶
• staff in distinctive green doublet⁸⁹

Fire Touched

• had been shut down for more than half a year²⁶⁷
• smelled of alcohol, sawdust, peanuts, and the scents of hundreds of individuals²⁶⁷
• smelled of magic²⁶⁷
• when open the lights were low²⁶⁷
• with all the lights on it was nearly as bright as it would have been had there been windows²⁶⁷
• most tables stacked in a pyramid in one corner of the room; large tables on the bottom, smaller on top²⁶⁷
• chair mostly stacked²⁶⁷
• one big scarred table set in the middle of the mostly empty room, and chairs were set around it²⁶⁷
• closed doors marked EMPLOYEES ONLY in bright green letters²⁷²
• behind the doors only a stairway that led up or down²⁷⁹
• the tavern shouldn't have had an up; from the outside it was clearly a single-story building; an illusion or they were a different kind of stairway²⁷⁹
• climbed more than one floor; 10 floors²⁷⁹
• flat roof, the kind of roof expected to have, with battered machines happily humming away, keeping the tavern a steady temperature, a knee-deep barricade to keep people from walking off the edge²⁷⁹
• tavern open again for business—but this time open to humans and others alike³³⁹

Storm Cursed

• has a hitching post²³²
• the big Uncle Mike's sign was down, awaiting a newer, bigger sign²³²
• lighted Open sign on the door²³²
• all the work, from bussers to the brewmaster himself, was done by the fae²³³
• card-table-sized table, in front of the stage²³⁴
• new uniform, black pants and kelly green shirt emblanzoned with Uncle Mike's logo²³⁵
• serves food²³⁶
• Mike's office, big leather chair; large enough to contain a big desk and a wall of filing cabinets and still have ample room for six large mismatched but comfortable looking chairs²⁵⁶
• cement floor²⁶²

Vampire Protection Racket
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Columbia Basin | Richland, Kennewick, and Pasco + Burbank and West Richland and smaller towns

Employer: Marsilia
Employees
Mid-Columbia Seethe

Business Description
Moon Called

• in the Columbia Basin every business the vampires considered under their jurisdiction (meaning anyone touched by the supernatural who was too powerless to stand against them) paid them protection money
• just like the mod, the vampires only protect you from themselves

Westwood Dance Studio
IA: Alpha & Omega Series #3: Fair Game
Location: Westwood, Massachusetts

Employer: N/A
Employees

Business Description
Fair Game

• established 2006
• a polished floor; lingering scent of horses; originally a barn repurposed into a dance studio<sup>256/sup> * big open room; far end, on the short wall, a bench held a couple of pairs of slip on shoes and a belly-dancing belt²⁵⁶
• next to the bench, one corner of the barn was closed off and a sign that read OFFICE hung on the door²⁵⁶
• a wall of mirrors spanned the long side of the barn; a long brass bar, placed about three feet up and running the length of the mirrored surface²⁵⁶
• ceiling had exposed rafters²⁵⁶
• barn-turned-dance studio²⁵⁶
• sign is near a bunch of lilac bushes²⁶⁸
• walls are old two-by-twelve timbers²⁷¹
• floor was waxed and slippery²⁷³

Witches-R-Us
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #1: Moon Called
Location: Tri-Cities, Washington+

Employer: Elizaveta Arkadyevna
Employees
Kikimora Family Witches Deceased
Nadia Popov Deceased
Robert Arkadyevna Deceased

Business Description
Moon Called

• keeping mundane humans ignorant of the magic that lives among them; a specialized and lucrative business
• works on retainer for Columbia Basin Pack

Yard and Garden Store
IA: Mercy Thompson Series #7: Frost Burned
Location: Tri-Cities, Washington

Employer:
Employees
Kelly

Business Description
Frost Burned