For over a year, Joanne has been fighting the Master{u2014}the world's most abiding evil entity. She's sacrificed family, friendships, even watched potential futures fade away{u2026}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{u2014}and surrender everything...

No longer a cop, Joanne Walker's inner magic draws her to Ireland and back in time to rescue the woman who, one year ago, sacrified her life for Joanne.

For once Joanne Walker's not out to save the world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she's got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead. But it's Halloween and the undead have just crashed Joanne's party.

Shaman Joanne Walker returns to North Carolina to find her missing father and meet Aidan, the son she left behind long ago. But Aidan has become tainted by an evil reaching forward from the distant past. It will take everything Joanne has to pull the past apart and weave a better future--for her, her son, and the Appalachians.

The fifth book in the Walker Papers urban fantasy series. A cannibalistic killer is more than Seattle police detective Joanne Walker bargains for. What's worse, the demon leaves no tracks. So she'll have to hunt it where it lives: the Lower World.