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AUTHOR Murphy, C. E. TITLE Urban shaman / C.E. Murphy. EDITION 1st ed. IMPRINT New York : Luna Books, 2005. DESCRIPT 344 p. ; 21 cm. SUBJECT Policewomen -- Fiction. Healers -- Fiction. Coyote (Legendary character) -- Fiction. Seattle (Wash.) -- Fiction. Fantasy fiction. ISBN 0373802234.
In this first book in a continuing series, Seattle cop Joanne Walker is being pursued by a Celtic god (Cerunnos), and forced to acknowledge an aspect of the universe she's never seen before. Even if she survives, she will forever be changed by this adventure.
Joanne is the product of a Cherokee and Irish fling- her other name is Siobhan Walkingstick.
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.

Unleash the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006. 0312934335 $6.99
Dark-Hunter Novel
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It's a predator eat predator world for the Were-Hunters. Danger haunts any given day. There is no one to trust. No one to love. Not if they want to live…An orphan with no clan that will claim him, Wren Tigarian grew to adulthood under the close scrutiny and mistrust of those around him. A forbidden blend of two animals—snow leopard and white tiger—Wren has never listened to anyone when there was something he wanted. Now he wants Marguerite.Marguerite D'Aubert Goudeau is the daughter of a prominent U.S. Senator who hates the socialite life she's forced to live. Like her mother before her, she has strong Cajun roots that her father doesn't understand. Still, she has no choice but to try and conform to a world where she feels like an outsider. But the world of rich and powerful humans is never to meet the world of the Were-Hunters who exist side by side with them, unseen, unknown, undetected. To break this law is to call down a wrath of the highest order.In order to have Marguerite, Wren must fight not just the humans who will never accept his animal nature, but the Were-Hunters who want him dead for endangering their world. It's a race against time and magic without boundary that could cost Marguerite and Wren not just their lives, but their very souls…

AUTHOR Huston, Charlie. TITLE Already dead : a novel / Charlie Huston. EDITION 1st ed. IMPRINT New York : Ballantine Books, 2005. DESCRIPT 268 p. : map ; 21 cm. SUBJECT Private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction. Mystery fiction. ISBN 034547824X.
"There's a shambler on the loose. Some fool who got himself infected with a flesh-eating bacteria is lurching around, trying to munch on folks' brains. Joe hates shamblers, but he's still the one who has to deal with them. That's just the kind of life he has. Except afterlife might be better word." "From the Battery to the Bronx, and from river to river, Manhattan is crawling with Vampyres. Joe is one of them, and he's not happy about it. Yeah, he gets to be stronger and faster than you, and he's tough as nails to kill. But spending his nights trying to score a pint of blood to feed the Vyrus that's eating at him isn't his idea of a good time. And Joe doesn't make it any easier on himself. Going his own way, refusing to ally with the Clans that run the undead underside of Manhattan - it ain't easy. It's worse once he gets mixed up with the Coalition - the city's most powerful Clan - and finds himself searching for a poor little rich girl who's gone missing in Alphabet City." "Now the Coalition and the girl's high-society parents are breathing down his neck, anarchist Vampyres are pushing him around, and a crazy Vampyre cult is stalking him. No time to complain, though. Got to find that girl and kill that shambler before the whip comes down . . . and before the sun comes up."--BOOK JACKET.