Henry Carter Hull

Midwest-based artist Alex anticipates his twenty-seventh birthday with trepidation, as that is the age at which his mother went insane, and when he saves a beautiful woman, he suddenly becomes the target of brutal violence.

Julia "Jules" Farentino, disturbed by nightmares since the murder of her father, applies for a teaching job at Blue Rock Academy, where her half-sister Shaylee had been sent after running into problems with the law, but when Jules arrives, a series of murders and strange occurrences make her wonder if she is in danger.

Reporter Nick Daniels, interviewing a notorious baseball player at Lombardo's Steak House in New York, witnesses the murder of a mob lawyer and in the confusion captures a key piece of evidence that puts him on the most-wanted lists of the Italian and Russian mafias, the media, and the NYPD.

Frank Meyer, a former military contractor and mercenary who used to work with Joe Pike, loses his family when a professional crew raids his home, but when the police suspect Meyer to have been hiding something, Elvis Cole helps Pike search beyond grudges, blackmail, and double crosses in an effort to clear Meyer's name.