Shaman Rises (The Walker Papers) (33 page)

That
was my future. Not the chaos of the past year, not the dreadful, exhausting knowledge that I was going to have to face something way out of my weight class, not all the predestiny and tangled time that had driven me forward whether I liked it or not. Healing people, healing places, making the world a better place:
that
was what I wanted to do now. I wanted Raven to help me, as if there was any chance he wouldn’t. I wanted to do it with Morrison at my side, and with Gary and Annie guiding me. I wanted to improve my relationship with my father, and get to know my son. I wanted to watch Billy and Melinda’s kids grow up, and see what kind of person Suzanne Quinley was going to become, and where her choices would lead her. I wanted all of that and more, and for the first time, all those dreams seemed within reach. Gary really had taught me the thing that mattered the most. All I had to do was...

...
believe.

* * * * *

Acknowledgments

My grandfather, for making writing seem a natural occupation.

Mom and Dad, for telling me I could do anything.

Ted, for looking out the window in the first place.

Trip, for illuminating the world-structure error in the early drafts of
Urban Shaman.

Trent, for being the first reader for every. single. manuscript.

Bev and Gary, for being forgiving when I wrote during family vacations.

The War Room en masse and Laura Anne, Mikaela, Michelle and Chrysoula in particular, for being there at all sorts of stupid hours when I needed a kick in the pants.

Jennifer, for ten great years.

Matrice, for taking a chance.

My readers, for carrying this story through all the way to the end.

Thank you all so, so much.

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ISBN-13: 9781460330173

SHAMAN RISES

Copyright © 2014 by C.E. Murphy

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