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Stormwalker: Book 3

Shadow Walker (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Allyson James (Author) (edit contributors)

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Winter descends on the town of Magellan, and new evil comes to call. A new county inspector declares Janet's hotel a safety hazard and gives her one week to bring everything up to code, but no matter how hard Janet and her friends work, everything is deteriorated again in the morning. At the... read more

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  • Janet Begay: A Stormwalker with Beneath magic; Mick's girlfriend & dragon mate; Raised on the Navajo Nation, born of mortal Diné parents but her mother is a goddess from Beneath; Professional photographer; Owner of the Crossroads Hotel; Has long black hair and dark eyes that can turn ice green
  • Mick Burns: "Micalerianicum" - Dragon-shifter; Janet's inked biker bad boy boyfriend; Wields powerful fire magic and can draw off Janet's storm powers with his sensual touch; Is a dragon lord; Is 6'6" of honed muscle; Has curly black hair and blue eyes that can turn black; Turns into a giant black beast with black and silver eyes and a wingspan that rivals a 747's; As a human, his dragon essence is contained in the dragon tattoos that wind down his bare arms and in the fire tattoo that stretches across the small of his back
  • Nash Jones: Sheriff of Hopi County; Maya's on again, off again boyfriend; Until recently was an Unbeliever and not fond of people who claimed to use magic; Ex-Army Special Forces; Iraq War vet (Suffers from PTSD); A stickler for rules and regs, and might possess the most potent magic of all; Has very short black hair and light gray eyes; Is a magic null
  • Maya Medina: An electrician; Nash's on again, off again girlfriend; Janet's best friend; Is beautiful, with creamy dark skin, long curly black hair and thick-lashed brown eyes
  • Cassandra Bryson: "Cass" - Janet's hotel manager; Pamela's girlfriend; A beautiful Wicca practicing witch with blonde hair and light blue eyes.
  • Pamela Grant: A Native American Wolf Changer; Cassandra's girlfriend; Is tall with Native American features, dark hair and dark eyes that turn gray like a wolf's
  • Coyote: A shape-shifting trickster god and being of raw power with an eye for the ladies; Despite his jovial exterior, Janet knows he's dangerous; Is 6'6" with broad shoulders; A Native American with long braided hair and intense dark eyes
  • Ansel: An English WWII vet who became a Nightwalker in a covert experiment. Now he lives in Janet's hotel, watches classic movies, and collects stamps; Janet's friend; A tall, slender man with dark eyes; Was turned when he was 23 years old
  • Peter Begay: "Pete" - Janet's father; Ruby & Jacob's son; Is usually quiet and subdued
  • Ruby Begay: Janet's grandmother, who raised her; Jacob's widow; Peter's mother; Hates Janet's real mother; Can become a Crow; Janet inherited her Stormwalker magic from her; A small Diné woman with iron gray hair, black eyes and a wrinkled face.
  • Jacob Begay: Janet's grandfather; Ruby's late husband; Peter's father; A stern faced Navajo with long hair neatly braided, who looked much like Janet's father.
  • The Magic Mirror: Sounds like a drag-queen
  • Paco Lopez: Nash's senior deputy; Has dark eyes
  • Chief McGuire: Magellan's chief of police
  • Emilio Salas: Magellan's Assistant Chief of police; Has blue black hair and dark eyes
  • Elena Williams: An Apache from the White Mountains; The hotel chef, she trained in the best restaurants in New York and Chicago; Has shamans in her ancestry; Has black hair and dark eyes
  • Fremont Hansen: A plumber who calls himself a minor mage; Has a balding head and gentle hazel eyes; The biggest gossip in Magellan
  • Jamison Kee: Navajo; Mountain lion (puma) Changer; Naomi's husband; Julie's stepfather; Janet's friend; A famous sculptor; Navajo storyteller; An earth-magic shaman; A tall Indian with dark hair
  • Naomi Kee: Jamison's wife; Julie's mother; Owns Hansen's Garden Center; Has blue green eyes
  • Julie Kee: Naomi's eleven-year-old daughter; Jamison's stepdaughter; Was born with total hearing loss, though she can now speak and is a master at sign language.
  • Colby: "Colbinalius" - A snarky dragon-shifter; Does things for his own reasons; Is massive and dark haired with light blue eyes; Is inked all over, yakuza style, except for hands and face; Fiery red dragon streaked with black
  • Drake: "Draconilingius" - Dragon-shifter; Works for the Dragon Council as dragon law enforcement; Is 6'6", handsome, and brusque; Wears his long, sleek black hair in a ponytail; Has dark eyes, dark skin and the ends of his dragon tattoos rise above his collar to touch his cheekbones; His dragon tattoo spreads across his back and down his arms, the spikes of wings rising up his neck; Black dragon
  • Bancroft: Dragon-shifter; Dragon Council member; Wears a leather duster; Is taller than 6'6" and has black hair; Red orange dragon
  • Barry Dicks: Taciturn owner of the Crossroads Bar; A biker
  • Ava Jones: Nash's mother; A middle-aged woman with the same lean sharpness as Nash and the same cool gray eyes
  • April: Janet's cousin
  • Thomas: Janet's cousin
  • Samuel: Owns the S.J. Ranch
  • Mrs. Thompson: Lives in Snowflake
  • Mr. Thompson: Lives in Snowflake
  • Mr. Massey: Gabrielle's father; An Apache drunkard
  • Anna Massey: Gabrielle's stepmother, who raised her; A very kind woman
  • Gina Tsotsie: Lives in Farmington
  • Bear: Bear Changer; A Native American woman; Is tall and broad-shouldered with dark eyes
  • Ted Wingate: County safety inspector; Vonda's husband; Is tall, hard-muscled and tan; Has brown hair and light brown eyes; Is 40ish
  • Vonda Wingate: Ted's wife; Has very blue eyes and her blonde hair is cut close in an angular style; Is slim without being bony; Looks to be in her 40's
  • Spider Woman: Goddess who taught weaving to the Diné; Said to live on Spider Rock where she likes to throw people who displease her from her aerie to the canyon floor, where they are found as a pile of bones.
  • Gabrielle Massey: "Janet White" - Janet's half-sister; Half-Apache, half-goddess; She's young, dangerous, powerful and elusive; A child of Beneath; She is evil incarnate; A very pretty young woman, with soft Native American features, a compact but curvy body, long, glossy black hair and brown eyes that can turn green.
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First Sentence edit see section history

Nothing quite makes your night like falling two hundred feet into a sinkhole.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapters 1 - 29

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  • Stormwalkers: Beings that can absorb the elemental might of a storm and use it to fuel their own magic
  • Firewalkers: Dragons; Beings that can summon and control fire
  • Dragons: Born of this earth in volcanoes, storms, and deep oceans, their number dwindled after the emergence of mankind. They consider themselves the guardians of the earth.
  • Changers: Shape shifters descended from shamans who twined with animal spirits and learned to take their shapes. (The good shape shifters.)
  • Nightwalkers: Vampires
  • Skinwalkers: Evil beings who can take the shape of animals or humans they've killed. (The bad shape shifters.)
  • Unbelievers: Those who live in and around Magellan and don't believe in the paranormal.
  • Vortexes: Swirls of mystical energy that collect in certain places in the desert. Some are gateways to Beneath.
  • Shadow Walkers: A witch who wears her magic like shadows. Is strong and nasty.
  • Mundanes: Non-magical people
  • Koshare: A Hopi spirit who watches over Indian land
  • Karmii: They are like harbingers. They point the way to evil. When the karmii find evil, they multiply and gather in hordes to try to smother said evil. They look like thin lines that end in bony digits. They are mindless. Primal, created by shamans using ancient spells that never faded. The karmii were to protect the shaman from evil spirits while he performed his rituals.
  • Kachinas: Hopi spirits, who are not always friendly
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This is book 3 of 6 in Stormwalker. (standard series)

Preceded by Firewalker, and followed by Nightwalker.

This is book 5 of 6 in Stormwalker: Reading Order. (standard series)

Preceded by Hexed, and followed by Nightwalker.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Allyson James (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Berkley
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 7, 2011
ISBN: 978-0425241820
Page Count: 304

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  • Hot for the Holidays
  • Stormwalker
  • Firewalker
  • Hexed

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