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Wind Slinger: An Elizabeth Shepherd Paranormal Adventure
Elizabeth Shepherd is a dead woman. Not even her uncanny powers can save her now.
On the run from an eldritch horror and an unfortunate promise, Liz has finally gone too far. Hunted by an otherworldly, shape-stealing dread, she careens across the countryside in a desperate attempt to free herself from a deal gone sour.
For a time, she finds safety with a her old gaming group, hiding out at a role playing convention. However, when mysterious cabals with motives unknown, summoned outsiders, and other creatures of dark magic jump in the mix, Liz doesn't think her situation could get any worse.
She couldn't be more wrong.
Before she knows it, Liz has reneged on yet another promise, one she made to her elusive hedge wizard mentor. He always warned her that using her command over the wind would attract the wrong kind of attention; yet she has few choices. Whether creating compacts with an angelic choir of Watchers, riddle-dueling with one of the wild fae, or standing against a legion of arachnid-wolf nightmares, such things only respect one thing: power.
They certainly don't want to role play with her.
As Liz faces inhuman miscreations that haunt her every turn, she discovers things are far darker than she believed.
It's possible that nothing Liz believes about herself is true.
On the run from an eldritch horror and an unfortunate promise, Liz has finally gone too far. Hunted by an otherworldly, shape-stealing dread, she careens across the countryside in a desperate attempt to free herself from a deal gone sour.
For a time, she finds safety with a her old gaming group, hiding out at a role playing convention. However, when mysterious cabals with motives unknown, summoned outsiders, and other creatures of dark magic jump in the mix, Liz doesn't think her situation could get any worse.
She couldn't be more wrong.
Before she knows it, Liz has reneged on yet another promise, one she made to her elusive hedge wizard mentor. He always warned her that using her command over the wind would attract the wrong kind of attention; yet she has few choices. Whether creating compacts with an angelic choir of Watchers, riddle-dueling with one of the wild fae, or standing against a legion of arachnid-wolf nightmares, such things only respect one thing: power.
They certainly don't want to role play with her.
As Liz faces inhuman miscreations that haunt her every turn, she discovers things are far darker than she believed.
It's possible that nothing Liz believes about herself is true.
564 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 3, 2017
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About the author
J.M. Guillen
23 books216 followersJM Guillen was just an average Joe when he worked at a Necromancy factory in 2018. After his job was outsourced to Mexico, he has been driven irrevocably mad and gifted with strange, terrible power.
Today he spends his time creating sentient velociraptors in his secret lair and summoning fell powers best left alone. His goal of absolute world domination is almost within his grasp. Soon, nothing will stop him.
Occasionally, he writes.
Today he spends his time creating sentient velociraptors in his secret lair and summoning fell powers best left alone. His goal of absolute world domination is almost within his grasp. Soon, nothing will stop him.
Occasionally, he writes.
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January 5, 2017
Readers of the Irrational Worlds novels might remember Elizabeth Shepherd, 'Liz' to her friends, from a brief appearance during Michael Bishop's first adventure. Here, Guillen gives her background and tells how she found herself tangled up combatting eldritch abominations, a reluctant superhero armed with an excess of tabletop gaming terminology, and the power to control the wind, which earns her the odd designation that serves as the title, and the assistance of an oddball bunch of gamer friends.
In Windslinger Guillen comes his closest to the standard urban fantasy format, with a character grounded in this reality with a stable life and backstory, unlike his deadly but programmable Assets, and the reader finally gets to explore the 'civilian' side of the Irrational Worlds as they pertain to this reality. The book also serves as a standalone and a fair entry point into this growing sequence of books.
The wind is at your back, and the pacing doesn't let up, so give it a read and get swept along in the hurricane!
In Windslinger Guillen comes his closest to the standard urban fantasy format, with a character grounded in this reality with a stable life and backstory, unlike his deadly but programmable Assets, and the reader finally gets to explore the 'civilian' side of the Irrational Worlds as they pertain to this reality. The book also serves as a standalone and a fair entry point into this growing sequence of books.
The wind is at your back, and the pacing doesn't let up, so give it a read and get swept along in the hurricane!
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