Urban Shaman | C. E. Murphy | Fantasy | Fantasy | eBooks
Urban Shaman
by C. E. Murphy
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Urban Shaman Summary:
| Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt. No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams. And if all that's not bad enough, in the three years Joanne's been a cop, she's never seen a dead body--but she's just come across her second in three days. It's been a bitch of a week. And it isn't over yet. |
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| "Joanne Walker is a Seattle cop with no use for the mystical. When she sees a woman running for her life, she has to get involved--even when the woman, Marie, claims to be hunted by Cernunnos, an ancient Celtic god who leads the Wild Hunt. Jo's solid, real world explodes when Cernunnos tramples through a local diner and calls her out. The fight ends with Jo's near-death, and in a hazy experience between life and death, she's greeted by the Native American trickster Coyote. He gives her a choice: death, or life as a shaman. Jo chooses the healer's path, forced to acknowledged an aspect of the universe she's never seen before. Marie is murdered a few hours later. Jo, stunned, throws caution to the wind and seeks out guidance on a psychic plane. Half a dozen shamans, all of them dead in an apparently unconnected series of recent murders, respond. They charge her with finding the man who murdered them, unable to give her a greater clue than ""he seeks the child."" The next morning Jo wakes up to news that four children have been murdered at a local high school. She arrives at the school to discover a ritualized death scene. She speaks with the class teacher and, through a healing trance, learns the killer's identity ?Ητ Herne the Hunter, Cernunnos' son. Jo begins tracking Herne; Cernunnos, in turn, hunts Jo. Her newborn shamanic powers are the key to his ability to stay on Earth rather than be pulled back into shadow with the turn of the seasons. Their final confrontation takes place on an astral level, a very physical battle that leaves them both worn and battered, and binds Cernunnos to the cycle of time once more. Another fight still remains, though: Jo tracks down Herne and with him, his daughter, whom Herne intends to sacrifice in a blood ritual that will permit him to take Cernunnos' place as leader of the Hunt. As she battles Herne, Jo comes to better understand the path she's chosen, finally accepting her fate as a warrior and a healer in a world full of ignored mysticism. With her new understanding, she finds herself able to guide Herne to his own place in that mystical world, righting an error made centuries earlier." |
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