But then, Mercy isn't exactly normal herself. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf, her former boss is a gremlin, and she's fixing a Volkswagen bus for a vampire. When Zee is forced to retire and move to the Walla Walla Fae Reservation he loans Mercy the money to purchase the garage from him.

He eventually hires Mercy back when he finds her working at the local Burger King. In-fact Zee fires Mercy three times in her first month of working for him. Tad gives her a job, which Zee isn't too pleased to find out about. When Mercy arrives in the Tri-Cities she meets Tad (Zee's nine-year-old son) when she walking into the Garage looking for a fan belt for her Jetta. Mercy obtained a BS in History, which she dusts off twice a year. After which she attended university and had some adventures with her friend Char. Mercy left Aspen Creek and lived with her mother's family for two years (from age 16 to 18) in Eugene, Oregon. At some point, the two planned to run away together, until Bran Cornick (the Marrok) warned Mercy off.

Mercy loved Sam, and while Sam may have indeed loved her, he was more interested in the possibility of the two of them being able to have children, something female werewolves are incapable of. While in Aspen Creek Mercy grew romantically close to Samuel Cornick, the Marrok's son. At this development Margi sent Mercy to Aspen Creek to be raised by a friend of her grandfather's brother, Bran Cornick. When Mercy was three months old, her mother came across a coyote pup in Mercy's crib. The daughter of a Blackfeet Indian and a white teenage mother ( Margi), Mercedes lived with her mother for the first few months of her life. She doesn't like letting people she cares about be in danger alone but at the same time has trouble accepting help from anyone even when she needs it. Mercy is described as being stubborn, headstrong, independent, hardworking, thoughtful, and caring. Identifying marks include a tattoo of a coyote paw print on her belly, below her navel, buckshot scars on her behind, and a white burn mark on her right cheek that looks like war paint. She has a muscular build from karate training, tanned skin, and mostly Anglo features from her mothers side. Mercy is described in the novels as being of average height, around 5'6', and average weight with long, straight, dark brunette hair (often kept in braids).

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