Bøger af Lynne Cantwell

If anything can go wrong... Naomi's having a bad week. She's already overwhelmed by setting up her solo mediation practice and second-guessing her relationship with Joseph. An old acquaintance seems to be setting up shop down the road from their friend Charlie's ranch. And Charlie has a new pal: a filmmaker who might be the Investigator - except that he doesn't exactly believe in teamwork. Then a jaguar attacks her in downtown Denver....

Harvest's in... Sue faces the biggest challenge of her career: she has three weeks to raise millions of dollars for research into a supergrain that promises to end world hunger. But ayalendo has some distressing -- even dangerous -- qualities. And Lucifer means to exploit them to control the world's food supply and become a god at last. When Tess learns the identity of the shady corporation pushing ayalendo's development, she realizes her own livelihood may be in jeopardy. She and Darrell embark on a cross-country journey to her parents' farm to gather information for a congressional committee investigating the ayalendo project. The gods are bringing in some big guns to help. But it will be up to Sue, Tess, and Darrell to defeat Lucifer, once and for all.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt... Naomi Witherspoon, back home in Denver after her "vacation" in South Dakota, has amassed a catalog of things she doesn't want to think about. Her due date is just around the corner, but she has yet to buy a single diaper - let alone look for a bigger place for her, her boyfriend Joseph, and the baby. Speaking of housing problems, Joseph's grandfather is in failing health and needs to move out of his wickiup, but the old man won't budge. Naomi and Joseph may have found a replacement for their woo-woo teammate/nemesis Jack in TV reporter Antonia Greco - but Antonia comes with her own set of problems, not least of which is that she's dating Naomi's ex-fiance, Brock. Meanwhile, Jack has escaped from the Mexican drug lord who owns him, and the thugs sent to find him aren't above roughing people up. Best of all, Naomi hasn't shared any of this with her mother, who wants to sell her house in Indiana and move to Colorado. If Naomi can negotiate this minefield, mediating an agreement between White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman and Jehovah ought to be a piece of cake...

A Fool's journey begins with a single step... Julia Morton Michaud has fled Chicago for her grandparents' summer home in Michiana. She believes the cottage near Lake Michigan will be a refuge - a quiet place for her to pursue a writing career while her spirit heals from a string of failed relationships. But her past keeps intruding. Her ex-husband, Lance, is under investigation for defrauding his wealthy investors, and the specter of having to testify at his trial hangs over her. She begins a new relationship with a man she hardly knows. And her neighbor and former lover, David Turner, is trapped in his own troubled marriage. Julia discovers a labyrinth in the woods near her cottage. It belongs to Elsie and Thea, the elderly ladies who live at the end of the lane. Julia wants to use it for meditation, but she doesn't know the risks. For the women have their own agenda, and it's tied to the rug Elsie is endlessly weaving. The truths Julia learns in the labyrinth have the potential to change all their lives - if only she will take them to heart.

Based on the Irish tale "The Fate of the Children of Lir," "SwanSong" is the story of a jealous half-Tslyddi woman who curses her four Wolleni stepchildren to 900 years as swans. But the curse goes awry and the children are only partially transformed. The childrens' journey, as they learn to cope with their changed lives, is one of hardship, tragedy, and triumph.

Surf's up... Lt. Darrell Warren, Navy SEAL and Potawatomi medicine man, has been reassigned from the Pentagon temporarily to a command in Virginia Beach. He thinks he's there to investigate a rumor of a terrorist attack against the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, but his commander wants him to go undercover to infiltrate the terrorists - a job that's way outside Darrell's wheelhouse. And this time -- unlike two weeks before, in Washington -- his two housemates aren't available to help. Sue, the Right Hand of Gaia, is at the beach for a much-needed weekend of relaxation - and she's met a man who might just be The One. And Tess, who has an uneasy relationship with the Morrigan, is chasing Hurricane Hubert, a storm more powerful than Katrina. Tess thinks she can report on hurricane preparations while running down the rumor about the terrorists - and deciding how she feels about Darrell. The terrorists are not who they appear to be, and the hurricane is inching closer. To thwart both disasters - as well as cope with their own issues - Darrell, Tess, and Sue will need the help of the gods.

Naomi has a pretty sweet life. Respected as a skilled mediator, she has an almost uncanny knack for getting people on both sides of a dispute to agree. And her handsome boyfriend Brock has just proposed to her. But a white buffalo calf is bowing to her in her dreams. And who is the Native American man who has been following her around? Naomi doesn't know it, but things are about to change....

It's zero hour... Naomi has just two weeks to find a new home for Joseph's grandfather. The old Ute shaman is fighting for his life against a mysterious injection of toxin he received at the hands of the Norse Trickster god Loki. If Naomi is to defeat Loki once and for all, she must learn what it is he seeks under the old man's wickiup. She has just one week before she must mediate between the Earth's pagan gods and goddesses and the Christian God. If her efforts fail, all of humankind will suffer the consequences. And her baby is due any day. In this, the fifth and final book of the Pipe Woman Chronicles, Naomi is in a race against the clock to balance the demands of her body, her family, and her friends - and she must do it while the whole world is watching.

Storm's coming... Life on Earth is much improved since the pagan gods' return. As conflict eases around the world, attention -- and money -- has turned to more humanitarian goals: improving the lives of the First Nations peoples and others who were repressed for thousands of years. But the former ruling class - the military, religious, and corporate leaders who profited under the old system -- are about to stage a last-ditch effort to bring their good times back. The gods refuse to start a new war against those men, because that would make them no better than Their opponents. Instead, They have drafted three humans to help Them. Together, Tess, Sue and Darrell must find a way past their own flaws to ensure the gods' peace will not be destroyed.

Ah, winter in South Dakota... Naomi's caught some kind of bug, and she hasn't seen Joseph in weeks. But she lets Shannon drag her on vacation: a road trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to find Naomi's father. There, they find more than they bargained for: a dream wolf, a mysterious walled compound that might or might not belong to Loki, and a lot of snow. Shannon certainly knows how to show a friend a good time...

Can a god go crazy? Sage Curtis, reluctant Savior of the Earth, has been yanked around by the gods her whole life. Even though the Native American spirit Thunderbird has given her certain magical gifts, all she wants to do is finish her engineering degree so she can fix Earth's climate with science. Not with laser eyes. And definitely not by flying. Then Veles, the god of the Slavic underworld, invades her dreams. He intends to battle her until the Earth is no more, in the belief that it's the only way to reboot the planet - never mind the collateral damage. Even avoiding this battle will require the use of magic, and Sage is woefully unprepared. But a lot of people have her back: her parents, whose interactions with the gods are the stuff of legend; her brother Webb, who knows the future, mostly; and Rafe Orloff, transfer student and Trickster in his own right. Together, they have a chance of saving Earth from this crazy dragon god. But their success rests on one thing: whether she wants to or not, Sage is going to have to fly.

This is no time for a learning experience... Sage Curtis, engineering student and reluctant Savior of the Earth, is not having her best month ever. She is almost reconciled to the idea that she will have to use her Thunderbird powers to reverse the damage humans have done to Earth's climate - but those powers haven't helped her much so far. While recovering the world's supply of fresh water from the Slavic underworld, she and her friends unwittingly triggered a ten-foot snowfall across the Northern Hemisphere. Now people and crops are dying, and the snowmelt threatens to cause the seas to rise, wreaking further havoc. Sage and her friends have to get rid of the snow safely before they can roll back climate change. The clock is ticking, the learning curve is steep, and the gods will be no help. They have already said that if humans can't fix the climate, They will destroy the planet and start over. Sage must use everything she knows about both science and magic to save the Earth - and even that might not be enough.

I thought I'd escaped my troubles when I fled Hollywood to hike the Appalachian Trail. But trouble keeps finding me...There I was - Raney Meadows, a sort-of-famous actress on a really long hike - when a river goddess left a kayaker's body right where I'd stumble over it.Well, not stumble, exactly. The guy was in the water. But then I'm half-undine - a Water Elemental - so I could have stumbled over him. I mean, it's possible.Anyway, then the dead guy's brother shows up and tells me he wasn't a kayaker. And because I play a homicide investigator on TV, he asks me to find the killer.Which, okay. But I think the brother might be an Elemental, too. And since then we've met two people who could also be Elementals. So what's with the Elementals convention? Why here in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia?And why has the dead guy's cat picked me, of all people, to bond with?

Darkness dawns... Decades ago, Maggie Brandt fled the East Coast - leaving behind her troubled marriage, her three nearly-grown children, and her controlling mother-in-law - and picked up the threads of her old life in her Midwestern hometown. There, she found a measure of peace, even as she regretted leaving her children behind. Now, though, her ex-mother-in-law has been diagnosed with uterine cancer, and demands that Maggie dance attendance on her while she recovers - because, she says, there is no one else. Maggie feels she has no choice but to drop everything and comply. On the way, she stops on a whim at an ancient Native American earthwork, and what she experiences there leaves her reeling. An old woman who may - or may not - be the reincarnation of a Native American spirit charges Maggie with nothing less than Earth's renewal. But first, Maggie must bind the family wounds she created in her darkest hours - and with little more than an ancient turtle effigy as her guide.

FOCUS. Webb Curtis has a number of urgent projects on his plate. He's supposed to be studying mediation techniques so he can help his mother negotiate a new peace agreement among the gods. He's also supposed to be tracking down the goddess responsible for his mother's illness - and to do that, he needs to find a new way into the gods' realm, as the Norse Trickster Loki has locked it down while He nudges His fellow gods and goddesses toward the ultimate destruction of the Earth. But Webb isn't doing any of that. And he can't remember why. What he needs is a whack upside the head...

Maggie Muir Brandt has been charged by a Shawnee creation spirit with the renewal of the earth. But her elderly mother is losing her grip on reality, and she feels she must set aside her own life to move back to her childhood home to take care of her. Maggie's brother Sandy objects, saying it would be better for their mother to live closer to him. Sandy abused Maggie all through their childhood, and that history makes her suspicious of his sudden interest in their mother. Then, in a vision, she sees a water panther - a monster - attack a drowning doe, and she knows the water panther is Sandy and the doe is their mother. In her vision, Maggie thwarts the water panther's attack. But she knows he will be back, and she can't hold him off forever. It's an impossible situation, but it must be solved, and soon. Because time is running out for the earth, and Maggie can't fulfill her destiny until she has subdued her own demons - including Sandy.

More than forty deities, representative of sixteen pantheons from around the world, have found Their way into the twelve books and assorted short stories of the Pipe Woman Chronicles story cycle. In A Billion Gods and Goddesses: The Mythology Behind the Pipe Woman Chronicles, you will find additional information on each of the deities in this urban fantasy series, as well as a brief foundation in comparative mythology. This second edition adds deities from the final two books in the Pipe Woman's Legacy series, which had not yet been published when the first edition of this book went to press. The gods and goddesses in the Pipe Woman Chronicles hail from Alaska to Mexico, and from Russia and Scandinavia to Ireland and Japan -- with pantheons of several Native American tribes well represented. A Billion Gods and Goddesses is meant to be a companion volume to the Pipe Woman Chronicles, but it also serves as a wide-ranging introduction to the subject of mythology. Anyone curious about what others believe will find something to interest them here.

Welcome home... A woman who wants her family back the way it used to be... A zombie hunter who just wants to get away from it all... A young girl with a whorl but no stick -- and no hope... A shapeshifter who must fight a chupacabra... Thirteen stories of horror, fantasy, and science fiction are collected here for the first time in one volume.

If the Universe gave you the chance to deliver karmic justice, would you do it? Lynne Cantwell was the late-in-life child of parents who had already lost a baby daughter. Her brother, ten years older, delivered emotional and verbal abuse for as long as she could remember. As a young adult, she moved halfway across the country to escape him. Decades later, when their mother's health began to fail, Lynne was forced to work with her brother - first to keep their mother in their childhood home, and then to prepare the house for a sale that never happened. Everything changed, but the family dynamics stayed the same. This book - entertaining and heart-wrenching by turns - is a tale of the way abuse plays out across generations, and of what it takes to end it.

What's behind the final door? Maggie Brandt is the lone survivor of the fire that claimed her mother, her brother, and her childhood home. Turtle and Thunderbird, ancient Native American spirits who have enlisted her help, say the fire was necessary. They insist Maggie must move on quickly, for a greater trial is coming: the renewal of the earth, which only she can complete. But first she must check in on two of her children: Emily in California and Tim in Mexico City. And something else is pulling her to Mexico, too - an ancient entity whose task Maggie will want no part of. No wonder she feels like jumping off a bridge...

Webb Curtis lives in anticipation. His relatives do amazing things as a matter of course. His mother is Naomi Curtis, who facilitated the gods' power-sharing agreement that led to Their return to Earth. Older sister Sage saved the Earth by kicking the gods into action on climate change. And Webb? Knitting is his superpower. He also knows the future, but only when he's not directly involved. Now thirty-five and with a baby on the way, he is trying to find his place in the world. But his task will be complicated by a smoky interloper, an Icelandic princess, a tiny golden spider -- and Ragnarok, a.k.a. the end of the world. Not even Webb himself could have anticipated this...