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David Rudolph and Jacky Baker are the best commercial fishermen around the Oregon coast. The two men sign aboard a fishing vessel, the Edmund Fitzgerald II. With a crew of 10, the ship sails through radioactive waters in the Pacific carried by currents from the Fukushima nuclear accident. Using the latest and most sensitive Geiger counters for underwater use, the captain is determined that his catch will be safe for human consumption. After a day full of good catches, however, the ship and crew encounter something they didn't expect. Something in the water. Something big.

Dexter Beck, his wife Megan, and Percival "King Louie" Washington are driving to a special Christmas Eve function. Louie and Dexter share with Megan a story of another Christmas Eve in the early days of Justice Security, when the fledgling company is providing security for the band Omega. Omega is in town to perform at a special Christmas Eve charity concert. Louie and Dexter are driving the drummer, Gil Mullins, to the concert, when the worst blizzard ever to hit the city forces them to abandon their car and take refuge inside St. Francis Catholic Church.

Take four people that have been friends since college. Add a desire to protect others. Toss in a fun-loving look on life, and mix with a dash of a not-quite-by-the-book way of doing things, and what do you have? The partners of Justice Security. In this introductory story, the partners provide security for a society dog show with an unexpected death coming from an unknown source. They also provide security for a Heavyweight Boxing Championship that has no challenger, and they are hired to investigate the deaths of two innocent teens.

Set in San Francisco during the Gold Rush era, Ji Yuan, a Chinese youth who immigrated to America with his brother to seek his fortune but has found only disappointment. Now, his brother lays sick, dying, and Yuan must seek the help of two local spirits. But being tricksters, nothing these spirits tells the youth is ever the whole truth. To save his brother, Yuan was uncover the means to return their servant, a hatchet-man, from jail...dead or alive.

"You must hide your heart. Eli's coming," said the mysterious vendor to Gretchen Cantrell. Gretchen dismisses this warning, and, later, she is murdered. Gretchen's friends, Stu Phillips and Cindy Frasier, become embroiled in the death of their friend. And when the mysterious vendor appears to the two friends and gives them the same advice, that advice turns into a very public fight with a demon...a demon that lives on burning heartache. Will Cindy and Stu defeat the demon, or will the demon feed once more? Find out in T. M. Bilderback's Eli's Coming.

Megan Beck has been asked to perform a highly top-secret job for Justice Security, assigned by their FBI liaison, Marcus Moore. Megan is given sparse instructions on what she is to do, but no information about why she's doing this particular job, or who the target might be. The job, unfortunately, has to be done on the night of her husband's birthday. Dexter is understanding, but disappointed. He planned to celebrate with her and his brother that night. Facing disappointment at missing Dexter's first birthday since they were married, Megan stoically performs the top-secret job.