Rabbit Moon

   They say you can't go back home, but Marin Sinclair, end-of-life doula, doesn't expect her life to be in danger when she answers a mysterious plea for help from a long-ago friend and returns to Dinetah, the Navajo Nation. Her past there holds memories she is reluctant to confront, but what about her life then would make someone want to kill her?
   Navajo Nation Police Sergeant Justin Blue Eyes shares a connection with Marin from the past, and he has a few questions of his own when Marin disappears—such as why federal agent Cullen MacPherson is investigating the reservation’s abandoned uranium mines, and how the recent attacks on Marin are connected.  
   Trust has never come easy for Marin, and before she can find answers, she is forced to run—going off the grid on her own in the Lukachukai mountains with unknown killers close behind.

   Drawing from her own life story in the Four Corners area of the Navajo Nation, author Jan D Payne offers readers a journey into the heart of the American Southwest in a modern day suspense series. Writing characters who navigate diverse cultural influences to explore the lines between the seen and the unseen, the modern and the traditional, the present and the past—she creates a world where the impossible becomes possible, and mythical legends may come to life.
    A graduate of Shiprock High School in Shiprock, New Mexico, she also holds university and medical degrees, as well as a graduate degree in Christian Studies from Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. She attributes an early interest in writing to a wealth of family stories, including that of a great-great aunt taken captive by Comanche/Kiowa raiders in 1870's Texas.
    Jan Payne is a member of Western Writers of America and Women Writing the West and she and her husband, Jon, live in the Leech Lake area of northern Minnesota with their three big dogs—Kaibab, Rudi, and Orrin. Visit her website at: jandpayne.com