Jo-Ann Mapson

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1989
  • Latest Book:
    July 2016
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Full Series List in Order

A Bad Girl Creek Novel

Bad Girl Creek (May-2001)
Along Came Mary (Jan-2003)
Goodbye, Earl (Jan-2004)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • Fault Line

  • Hank & Chloe

    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...

  • Blue Rodeo

    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 Mex...

  • Shadow Ranch

    The impact of four-year-old Spencer's death has rocked the Carpenter family. For Lainie, the loss of her son is unbearable, and now both her marriage and her very sanity are threatened. Her guitar-obsessed, slacker brother Russell isn't doing very we...

  • Loving Chloe

    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 t...

  • The Wilder Sisters

    The Wilder sisters fall in love with men when they least expect it -- and most need it. Rose, the older, more practical one, is a widow who lives in New Mexico and has two ungrateful kids, a bored dog, and a horse with a bad back. Lily, the younger, ...

  • Bad Girl Creek

    A Bad Girl Creek Novel

    Phoebe DeThomas has lived life as spectator, confined to a wheelchair, in awe of her beloved Aunt Sadie, and overshadowed by her financial wizard brother, James. But when Sadie dies, leaving Phoebe a flower farm, the world opens up to her in ways she...

  • Along Came Mary

    A Bad Girl Creek Novel

    USA Today called Jo-Ann Mapson's national bestseller, Bad Girl Creek, "a valentine to oceans of good women who survive bad beginnings and worse men." Now the author, hailed as "one of the most gifted writers of the contemporary urban West" (Los Angel...

  • Goodbye, Earl

    A Bad Girl Creek Novel

    Five challenging years have passed in the lives of the ladies of Bad Girl Creek. Beryl, Nance, Ness, and Phoebe have experienced their share of hardship and heartache, but also much happiness. Beryl now lives with Earl in Alaska, where the fissures ...



  • The Owl & Moon Cafe

    After losing her teaching position at the local university, Mariah Moon will do anything to keep her gifted twelve-year-old daughter, Lindsay, in a prestigious private school -- which means moving in with her mother and grandmother in an apartment ab...

  • Solomon's Oak

    "Solomon's Oak" is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever: Glory Solomon, a young widow who struggles to hold on to her Central California farm; fourteen-year-old Juniper McGuire, who arrives on Glory's do...

  • Finding Casey

    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,...

  • Owen's Daughter

    Skye Elliot is given a choice after her car accident--jail or rehab--and her ex-husband, a bull rider who introduced her to the party scene, gets custody of their four-year-old daughter Gracie. It takes Skye eight months to get clean, but the day she...

  • Love, Fred Astaire

    After the death of her beloved Aunt Ellie, Margaret Yearwood discovers a hidden bundle of love letters addressed to her aunt. At least Margaret and her sister Norah thought she was their aunt. The letters, however, reveal a shocking secret: that Elli...

Award-Winning Books by Jo-Ann Mapson

Owen's Daughter
2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award -- Best New Mexico Book
2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jo-Ann Mapson has published 14 books.

Jo-Ann Mapson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Love, Fred Astaire, was published in July 2016.

The first book by Jo-Ann Mapson, Fault Line, was published in November 1989.

Yes. Jo-Ann Mapson has 1 series.
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