Wild Hunt — Julie Murphy

Draoideachta is the Gaelic word for magic in Ireland, a place of mystery, mists, and old gods that have been ruled by the Catholic Church since Saint Patrick in the year three hundred. But the Catholic Church in Ireland is dying and hemorrhaging magic. At the sights of holy wells, portal tombs, dolmans, and fairy forts, the veil is thinning. The Third Prophesy of Fatima is finally in play. All together so is the potential for a magical free-for-all-feck-a-thon on the mist-shrouded island. Laicized priests are in a takeover bid and in a summoning frenzy. To contain the Deathmatch, the Tuatha (who also want skin in the game) send forward in time their champion, a man cursed by the Morrigan when in defending himself, he killed her son. Abandoned at the age of five by his step father, Padric O'Duibh is a long-haired, woad-tattooed son of the God Ogma and a mundane mother. Never take money from a fairy. Mealla O'Conner, a Métis by birthright, half Irish, and half Native American from Canada has a website to teach and certify shamans and witches. An unbeliever, she is learning what she has to bring to the party the hard way, while doing. The kettle is on the boil and their lives in dealing with these cute-hoor conjurers are on the line.