As she tries to save the Thorn Land's prophecy-haunted queen, shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham must form an uneasy alliance with her shapeshifting ex-lover Kiyo and use her own cursed fate as a weapon to conquer evil.

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...

"Eugenie Markham is a shaman for hire, paid to bind and banish creatures from the Otherworld. But after her last battle, she's also become queen of the Thorn Land. It's hardly an enviable life, not with her kingdom in tatters, her love life in chaos, and Eugenie eager to avoid the prophecy about her firstborn destroying mankind. And now young girls are disappearing from the Otherworld, and no one--except Eugenie--seems willing to find out why. Eugenie...

The ultimate skeptic when it comes to the mystical, Seattle cop Joanne Walker aids a woman claiming to be hunted by Cernunnos, an ancient Celtic god, a situation that brings her face to face with an angry god and awakens in her shamanic powers that she must learn to harness to save the world.

Joanne Walker could probably handle a case of homeless people disappearing, a mystical murder out of her jurisdiction, and her own transformation into a coyote. But one ordinary homicide pushes her to the edge where she might need to decide, cop or shaman?

Gifted with the ability to track stolen magic, Naya Morales, on her latest case, is led to a handsome thief with whom she has an instant connection she refuses to break, even if it means risking her place within her tribe.