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Latest novel from Jo-Ann Mapson~coming out Oct. 2012

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Finding Casey:  Juniper Vigil is in college and in love.  Glory Vigil is unexpectedly pregnant and confined to bed.  Joseph is trying to hold everyone’s lives together while he works for a Women’s Shelter in Santa Fe.  The psychologist who gives pro bono counseling to the women who seek sanctuary encounters a young mother and her seriously ill daughter who will change the Vigil family forever.
(Review Publishers Weekly)

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Hank & Chloe: the story of an unlikely romance between a college professor and a woman horse trainer.  Mapson’s first novel, and also her MFA thesis






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The Wilder Sisters:  Lily and Rose, sisters who haven’t talked for five long years, come back together in Floralee, New Mexico, to try to mend their relationship.
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Blue Rodeo:  Margaret Yearwood’s son Peter has lost his hearing.  He moves in with a foster family in New Mexico to learn deaf culture.  His mom follows him, and becomes involved with a sheep rancher.




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Bad Girl Creek (book one of a trilogy):  Phoebe DeThomas, in a wheelchair, has lived her whole life as a spectator.  When she inherits her aunt’s farm, she decides to revive it, with the help of three roommates.
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Shadow Ranch:  Charles Russell the first, the iconoclastic head of the Carpenter family, is estranged from his family following the tragic death of his grandson.  When he falls in love with a former stripper on the Sally Jessy show, his family tries to intervene.


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Along Came Mary (book two):  Nance Maddox’s old boyfriend wants her back, but his affection will be hijacked by a karaoke singer whose sister was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Loving Chloe:
After they move to Arizona, Chloe is pregnant with the baby they were expecting at the end of Hank & Chloe.  As Hank settles into his teaching job, a handsome Indian artist, Walter Whitebear, enters the story, and his affection for Chloe causes stress on the couple's relationship.
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Goodbye, Earl (book three):  Beryl is unhappy in Alaska.  When a medical emergency arrives without warning, decisions need to be made. The Bad Girls come to her rescue, and bring her back to the California farm where she belongs.
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The Owl & Moon Café: 
Four generations of the Moon family women have owned and operated their small café for decades, serving pastry and coffee to the locals in Pacific Grove.  When Allegra becomes ill, a man she loved as a young woman (with massive consequences) is the one who comes to her aid.
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Solomon’s Oak:
Glory Solomon, a young widow, tries to hang onto her husband’s ranch by holding theme weddings under the hundred-year-old oak tree known locally as Solomon’s Oak.  Into her life come an angry homeless girl, Juniper McGuire, and a disabled cop-turned photographer from
New Mexico Joseph Vigil.

                                                                                                                            

Mapson Owens Daughter
Mapson at work on Owens Daughter.
SNEAK PEEK of what's coming:

Owen’s Daughter:
Just out of rehab, Skye Elliot reunites with the father she hasn’t seen for ten years.  Together they set out with Step Four in mind: Make amends to those you’ve harmed, and together try to get Gracie back, Skye’s four-year-old  daughter, and Owen’s first grandchild.


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