Shaman Rises. C.E. Murphy

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      Joanne Walker has two choices:

      Defeat the enemy…or lose her soul trying.

      For over a year, Joanne has been fighting the Master—the world’s most abiding evil entity. She’s sacrificed family, friendships, even watched potential futures fade away…and now the Master is bringing the final battle to Joanne’s beloved Seattle.

      Lives will be lost as the repercussions of all Joanne’s final transformation into her full Shamanic abilities come to her doorstep. Before the end, she’ll mourn, rejoice—and surrender everything for the hope of the world’s survival. She’ll be a warrior and a healer. Because she is finally a Shaman Rising.

      “The twists and turns will have readers shaking their heads while devouring the next page.”

      —USA TODAY on Raven Calls

       Praise for C.E. Murphy

      Urban Shaman

      “A swift pace, a good mystery, a likeable protagonist,

      magic, danger—Urban Shaman has them in spades.”

      —Jim Butcher, bestselling author of The Dresden Files series

      Thunderbird Falls

      “Fans of Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files novels

      and the works of urban fantasists Charles de Lint and Tanya Huff

      should enjoy this fantasy/mystery’s cosmic elements. A good choice.”

      —Library Journal

      Coyote Dreams

      “Tightly written and paced, [Coyote Dreams] has a compelling,

      interesting protagonist, whose struggles and successes

      will captivate new and old readers alike.”

      —RT Book Reviews

      Walking Dead

      “Murphy’s fourth Walker Papers offering is another gripping,

      well-written tale of what must be the world’s most reluctant—

      and stubborn—shaman.”

      —RT Book Reviews

      Demon Hunts

      “Murphy carefully crafts her scenes and I felt every gust of wind

      through the crispy frosted trees…. I am heartily looking forward

      to further volumes.”

      —The Discriminating Fangirl

      Spirit Dances

      “An original and addictive urban fantasy!”

      —Romancing the Dark Side

      Raven Calls

      “The twists and turns will have readers shaking their heads

      while devouring the next page.”

      —USA TODAY

      Mountain Echoes

      “Shaman Joanne Walker can’t seem to catch a break in the

      penultimate chapter of Murphy’s outstanding and long-running series.… Her past and present collide in this emotionally charged novel

      that illustrates Joanne’s unique evolution.”

      —RT Book Reviews on Mountain Echoes

       Also available from C.E. Murphy and Mira LUNA

      The Walker Papers

      URBAN SHAMAN

      WINTER MOON

      “Banshee Cries”

      THUNDERBIRD FALLS

      COYOTE DREAMS

      WALKING DEAD

      DEMON HUNTS

      SPIRIT DANCES

      RAVEN CALLS

      MOUNTAIN ECHOES

      The Negotiator

      HEART OF STONE

      HOUSE OF CARDS

      HANDS OF FLAME

      Shaman Rises

      C.E. Murphy

       www.mirabooks.co.uk

      …honestly, this one’s for me.

       Author’s Note

      Back in Y2K when I wrote Urban Shaman, I thought the Walker Papers would be a seven-book series. They grew to nine with the sale of the first “trilogy”—people kept referring to Urban Shaman, Thunderbird Falls and Coyote Dreams that way—and very quickly I began to see the story structure as three trilogies, with Joanne going through certain steps of growing up in each of those trilogies.

      I did not, frankly, ever expect it to span a total of eleven books, if you include Winter Moon’s “Banshee Cries” as a book (and I do!), or the independent collection of Walker Paper stories, No Dominion, as part of the series (and I certainly do!).

      Eleven books is a lot, and while I know there are a fair number of dedicated readers who reread the whole series when a new book comes out, I thought I might offer up a quick, rather wildly inaccurate in detail but reasonably spot-on in spirit, recap for you. A jaunt—with all due apologies to a couple of boys—down the road so far:

      Urban Shaman: Former police mechanic and now beat cop Joanne Walker is dragged into a world she doesn’t want to know exists when a coyote spirit gives her the choice between death or life as a shaman, after she’s skewered by Cernunnos, god of the Wild Hunt. She chooses life (look, nobody said it was a good choice, just a choice) and races to save a young woman named Suzanne Quinley from becoming a pawn in a game between Cernunnos and his son Herne.

      Winter Moon—“Banshee Cries”: Joanne’s boss and love inter—no, no, no, he’s just the boss—pulls Jo on to a case of ritual murders, already trusting her magic more than she does. But Joanne’s not the only one on the case—her mother is back from the dead to protect Joanne from the banshee she hunts and from the banshee’s master, СКАЧАТЬ