Thunderbird Falls

Joanne finds a dead woman's body in the gym shower room. She goes into the astral plane to talk to the dead woman's spirit, if she can find her, but meets Coyote who says it's dangerous there for her.

She is almost eaten by a huge serpent/monster.

She meets her teacher on the astral plane, a snake woman. She is upset with Joanne since Joanne has not really been taking her shamanic powers seriously and has not been studying how to use them properly.

Gary, the cab-driver, is back and she has dinner with him.

Joanne's teacher is astonished at how little Joanne actually knows about shamanic practices. She does not even have a spirit totem. When she goes on a spirit quest she ends up getting eaten by a Thunderbird, and has a snake, a raven and a horse offer to help her.

A group of the dead woman's friends ask her for help, and it turns out they form a coven. They want her to become the Mother figure in their coven. She takes part in one ritual and a lot of power is evident.

There's a really fascinating scene involving her on a quest to get aid to help a young boy with cancer and Gary.

There's also a good bit of humor in the book.

The coven's idea is to help a being come across into our reality and use its power to help the world. What they didn't count on was causing an earthquake during one of the preliminary rituals. Joanne also didn't count on a major betrayal.

A great deal of what happens in this book revolves around Joanne's continuing reluctance to accept the powers that she has, and her reluctance to take time to study and learn how to properly use those powers.

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