

Hoping for a fresh start, he opens a diner where he creates fine dishes, but is met with harsh resistance from the townsfolk, who prefer to stick to their old ways.Ĭlint and Mariah are drawn together by the trials they face in town, and Clint is determined to protect Mariah at all costs when danger descends upon her home.

Handsome and polished Clint Roberts escaped to western Wyoming, leaving his painful memories behind. As she takes over her father’s blacksmith shop and tries to move forward, she soon finds herself in jeopardy and wondering–does someone know she witnessed the robbery and is still alive?

Mariah Stover is left for dead and with no memory of when the Deadeye Gang robs the stagecoach she’s riding in, killing both her father and brother. When sparks begin to fly, can a friendship cast in iron be shaped into something more? Late as usual.– Forged in Love Wyoming Sunrise Series Book #1 Calico Canyon was best known for its opening line: "The Five Horseman of the Apocalypse rode in. Calico Canyon was a nominee for a Christy Award. Doctor in Petticoats was a finalist for a 2011 RITA Award finalist-Best Inspirational Romance. Connealy was a finalist for best first book in the American Christian Fiction Writer's (ACFW) 2008 Carol Awards with Petticoat Ranch. Connealy is also published by Thomas Nelson Publishing, a division of HarperCollins Publishers LLC. Out of Control appeared on the Christian Booksellers Association national best-sellers list in September 2011 and also on the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) national fiction best-seller list. After writing nineteen books for Barbour Publishing, she signed with Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group, in 2011. She published her first books with Barbour Publishing. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications, graduating magna cum laude from Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska, in 1976.Ĭonnealy wrote for ten years before she got her first book published, and had 20 finished books when she made her first sale. She is the third of eight children of farmer and social worker Jackson Moore, and social worker and pianist Dorothy (Frew) Moore.Ĭonnealy attended Jefferson School, a one-room country school house, for eight years during elementary school, and graduated from Lyons High School in 1974.

Mary Alice Moore Connealy (born 1956) is an American author of Christian fiction who specializes in romantic comedy set in the cowboy era of the American west.Ĭonnealy was born in Oakland, Nebraska, and grew up on a farm in rural Lyons, Nebraska.
