Title: Above the lower sky
Description: From the back cover of AvoNova paperback February 1996:

THE WORD, THE SINGER, AND THE WAY

An American writer admits a not-quite-human visitor into his Irish castle...

A Cherokee dancer watches in horror as a stranger is skinned alive on a Mexican beach...

In the wake of a dolphin massacre, a beautiful marine biologist dies... and lives again.

In the year 2024, a bizarre shared destiny unites Kevin Mauney, his estranged sister Carolyn, and Thunderbird O'Connor.  For each has a unique role to play in the resolution of a multi-species conspiracy that predates humankind -- and in the magical battle that is to come against a terror that has risen from the ocean's depths to walk the world of men.
Subjects: Fiction, fantasy, general, Indians of north america, fiction, O'conner, thunderbird (fictitious character), fiction