Larry Strattner

Nurse Maggie Cooper and the Shaman Dawn Larry Strattner First edition

Sweeping social and political change cause Maggie and Tony Cooper to move out of the city and into the Redwood forest. Maggie, a Registered Nurse, becomes the healthcare provider for a far flung group of rural patients. As she serves both everyday and emergency medical needs she is drawn deeper and deeper into more complex and complicated diagnoses and procedures. Her patients have no one else to treat them. The world has also become more dangerous as traditional structure and mores break down. With the help of Granny Longstreet, a Yurok Medicine Woman and Lola a young orphan of the social storm Maggie forges a new tomorrow using both ancient and modern healing. Lola takes a step beyond as Granny schools her on the mysteries of the Shaman, ancient medicine men who not only heal but step into the mystical and spirit world.