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Jan Kelly

Biography

Jan Kelly is a native Arizonan with an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University where she taught for thirty years. She has one daughter and lives with her husband in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Series

The Arizona Series by
Novels of the New American West
Elder Brother's Maze
Price: $2.99 USD.
Jack Rabbit
Price: $2.99 USD.
The Last Creation
Price: $2.99 USD.
Sacred Arrow
Price: $2.99 USD.

Books

Sacred Arrow by
Series: The Arizona Series. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 83,630. Language: English. Published: April 13, 2022 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Western
Sacred Arrow finds Guy Thornton resurrecting the Rawlings cattle ranch with its trove of ancient petroglyphs into a profitable bison operation when Bane, a White Mountain Apache, abducts the ranch owner's five-year-old son. Accounts of Guy's rodeo years and his relationship with a Yavapai woman named Sally are woven through the story of the family's desperate efforts to rescue young Jack.
The Last Creation by
Series: The Arizona Series. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 63,690. Language: English. Published: February 18, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » General, Fiction » Western
Hopi migration myths illuminate the third book in The Arizona Series. After years of searching, Guy finally discovers Rose working on the Rawlings’ ranch. Alternating chapters describe Guy’s adventures in the central Arizona desert six years prior as he struggles to recover the Arabian stallion that Rose had run away on.
Jack Rabbit by
Series: The Arizona Series. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 59,200. Language: English. Published: December 30, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action, Fiction » Western
In Book Two of The Arizona Series, Navajo Monster Slayer myths are threaded through the story of the runaway Rose, now sixteen, and Jack Rawlings’ cattle ranching family who live near Winslow in northern Arizona. Although Rose believes the Arabian stallion she ran away on was drowned in the flood that ended Elder Brother’s Maze, she finds redemption in her adoption by Jack’s family.
Elder Brother's Maze by
Series: The Arizona Series. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 80,790. Language: English. Published: September 9, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Adventure » General
Guy Thornton has made a “maze” of his life. Just out of prison, he spends months in the central Arizona desert with an elderly O’odham woman who seeks to teach him “tribe spirit.” Alternating chapters recount his past as an Arabian horse trainer and the entanglements with his boss’s wife and her teenaged, mentally unstable sister that derail his dreams of success.

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action adventure    action romance    adventure    arabian horses    arizona    arizona cowboy    cattle ranching    contemporary western    creation myths    desert animals    fiction action    fiction novel    hopi legends    horse culture    horses western    indian myth    modern western    native american    native american mythology    ranching usa    romance    runaway horses    sonora desert    western action    western cowboy