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While visiting Spanish Market in her hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Glory Vigil has an unsettling interaction with an art dealer there. There's something about this man that makes her uneasy, and when she buys a clay pot from one of the artists he represents, she has no idea the purchase will lead her somewhere she can't imagine. Once in despair over the loss of his best friend and the back injury that forced him into retirement, former detective Joseph Vigil is a changed man since his marriage to Glory. It's Glory's birthday but his visit to a farm to buy her a gift turns out to be step one in an investigation he never expected to make, one that makes him long to return to his work in the police crime lab.Glory and Joseph's adopted daughter Juniper is coming off her first serious breakup, certain love will never find her again. Her college fieldwork in forensic anthropology brings her in contact with someone she thought long gone and forgotten, erased from her past....]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:34:54 +0200 Finding Casey: A Novel https://science.library.land/jo-ann-mapson/284354-finding_casey_a_novel.html https://science.library.land/jo-ann-mapson/284354-finding_casey_a_novel.html

Glory Vigil, newly married, unexpectedly pregnant at forty-one, is nesting in the home she and her husband, Joseph, have just moved to in Santa Fe, a house that unbeknownst to them is rumored to have a resident ghost. Their adopted daughter, Juniper, is home from college for Thanksgiving and in love for the very first time, quickly learning how a relationship changes everything. But Juniper has a tiny arrow lodged in her heart, a leftover shard from the day eight years earlier when her sister, Casey, disappeared-in a time before she'd ever met Glory and Joseph. When a fieldwork course takes Juniper to a pueblo only a few hours away, she finds herself right back in the past she thought she'd finally buried.A love story, a family story, a story of searching and the bond between sisters, Finding Casey is a testament to human resilience. This completely stand-alone novel, featuring beloved characters from Solomon's Oak*, will charm Mapson's readers and move her into a larger sphere.*

Review

"FINDING CASEY is so many things a love letter to the American Southwest, an unstoppable read, a redemptive tale that proves the threads binding a family are unbreakable, no matter how far apart we are flung by fate. This is why Jo-Ann Mapson is one of my favorite authors--quite simply, she's an archivist of the human heart."--Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lone Wolf and *Sing You Home*"FINDING CASEY is a beautiful, rugged journey into the depths of the heart." --Robyn Carr, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Virgin River novels"No one tunnels as effortlessly into the mysteries of human heart the way that Mapson does. A haunting novel about the way the past travels right along with the present, and how hope can soar when you least expect it."--Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You"The characters in Jo-Ann Mapson’s novels feel hauntingly real – even the ghosts who groan through the pipes now and then. I read FINDING CASEY in two sittings, and I barely noticed anything else in the world while spending time in this writer’s wonderfully capable hands." --Mark Childress, author of Georgia Bottoms and Crazy in Alabama“Set against the beautiful backdrop of the burnished New Mexican desert, Mapson's portrait of familial ties and personal discovery shouldn't be missed.”--Publishers Weekly“In this eagerly awaited sequel to SOLOMON’S OAK (2010), the magical, masterful Mapson reinforces her deserved reputation as a storyteller who captures women’s issues with distinctive honesty and daring insight.”--Booklist"Mapson delves into the psyches of her well-developed characters with agility and grace." —Library Journal

About the Author

Jo-Ann Mapson is the author of ten previous novels, including the beloved Solomon's Oak, winner of the American Library Association's 2011 RUSA Award for Women's Fiction, Hank & Chloe, Blue Rodeo (a CBS TV movie), and the Los Angeles Times bestsellers The Wilder Sisters and Bad Girl Creek. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband and their four dogs.]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:34:52 +0200 Blue Rodeo https://science.library.land/jo-ann-mapson/284357-blue_rodeo.html https://science.library.land/jo-ann-mapson/284357-blue_rodeo.html

Those who do not remember family history are condemned to repeat it...Haunted by a failed marriage, a resentful son left deaf by a bout of meningitis, and the slow death of her artistic aspirations, Margaret Yearwood takes refuge in Blue Dog, New Mexico. There, in the shadow of Shiprock Mountain, and in the unlikely arms of Owen Garrett, she finds the courage to love again, and to be loved. And she comes to realize that even the most primal wounds scar over and that there's nothing so renewable or so healing as passion. This is a bittersweet story of ordinary people who must learn to heal family bonds before they are permanently severed.]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:34:54 +0200 Loving Chloe https://science.library.land/jo-ann-mapson/284356-loving_chloe.html https://science.library.land/jo-ann-mapson/284356-loving_chloe.html

When thirty-four-year-old Chloe Morgan appears on Hank Oliver's doorstep in Cameron, Arizona, she arrives with more than her old white German shepherd, Hannah, and a rambunctious young horse in tow. Chloe is pregnant with Hank's child, and she's as tough-talking and vulnerable, skittish and tender as when last we saw her in Jo-Ann Mapson's acclaimed first novel, Hank & Chloe. As Chloe and Hank settle somewhat uneasily into domesticity, a local Navajo legend named Junior Whitebear returns home to collect his father's ashes and renew his own spirit after years spent in the art-world fast lane. When Junior arrives at the reservation, he doesn't expect to find a son he fathered unwittingly nine years ago; nor is he looking to fall in love with Chloe and to deliver her baby girl. Both events change his life, and the lives of those around him, forever. A passionate love story, Loving Chloe explores the emotional complexity of a love triangle with sympathy, humor, and compassion.]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:34:53 +0200 Solomon's Oak https://science.library.land/jo-ann-mapson/287797-solomons_oak.html https://science.library.land/jo-ann-mapson/287797-solomons_oak.html

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It's been years since Skye Elliot has seen her biological father. He left when she was twelve, breaking her heart, and her life hasn't exactly been going uphill since. A drug user and alcoholic, Skye is given a choice after a car accident: jail or rehab. It takes eight months to get clean, but the day Skye is released, she has one plan: to be a good mother to her four-year-old daughter, Gracie. But first she has to find her.When no one shows up to pick up Skye from the centre – not her often-married mother who loves plastic surgery more than her granddaughter, not even Rocky, Gracie's dad, a bull rider and the man who introduced Skye to drugs – she gets a surprise visitor: her father, on horseback, with Skye's horse, Lightning, on a lead. Together they set off on a unsettling quest to find Gracie and to forge some kind of relationship that transcends the hurt and anger that has been brewing for almost a decade.'If you haven't discovered Jo-Ann Mapson yet...]]> Wed, 19 Nov 2014 21:43:43 +0200 Hank & Chloe https://science.library.land/jo-ann-mapson/284355-hank_and_chloe.html https://science.library.land/jo-ann-mapson/284355-hank_and_chloe.html

Chloe Morgan is a thirty-three-year-old part-time waitress, small-time horse trainer, and full-time thoroughly toughened Western woman living in a corner of the dwindling canyonlands of Southern California. Calloused and wary, Chloe allows herself to love with total abandon and complete faith only her horse and her dog. That is, until a quirk in the weather and a sunrise funeral service cause her to cross the path of Henry Oliver, a sedate professor of folklore at the local college, who, like Chloe, has his reasons for holding back. But once Hank steps inside Chloe's makeshift cabin in the hills, Chloe realizes she must come to terms with her losses and decide between the life of solitude she had always thought was her fate and the love of a man who seems—at first—all wrong.]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:34:53 +0200