Ellen Fannon · Author
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Award-winning author Ellen Fannon writes humorous Christian fiction drawn from a life lived fully — as a veterinarian, former missionary, foster and adoptive mother, and church pianist. Her stories bring warmth, laughter, and faith to readers who appreciate clean, heartfelt fiction. With nine novels spanning romance, family drama, and cozy mystery, there's something here for everyone.
Dogged by Murder
She just wanted a quiet day at the dog show. Instead, she got a dead body.
Veterinarian Amy Dixon is filling in for a sick colleague at the county dog show — a perfectly ordinary assignment, until she runs headfirst into Mildred Blankenship, queen of the Chihuahua circuit and proud holder of the title "Most People Who'd Be Fine If She Disappeared." When Mildred turns up dead, Amy finds herself at the top of the suspect list.
Teaming up with charming snack-stand guy Nick Wyman, Amy sets out to sniff out the real killer. But in a world of rival breeders, pampered pooches, and show-ring politics, this mystery has more twists than a poodle's perm.
Hounded by Murder
At the local animal shelter, saving lives is the goal — until someone winds up dead.
When veterinarian Amanda Reynolds volunteers at the town's struggling animal shelter, she expects the usual chaos — barking dogs, opinionated cats, well-meaning volunteers. What she doesn't expect is a new director whose iron-fisted management sends morale and ethics into freefall. Animals disappear. Funds don't add up. Then the director turns up murdered — and Amanda, who had a very public run-in with the victim and was first on the scene, is suddenly the prime suspect.
With her reputation, career, and freedom on the line, Amanda and her quirky friends dive into the shelter's shadowy dealings to clear her name. But the truth may be more dangerous than any of them bargained for. A laugh-out-loud cozy mystery with lovable animals, sharp humor, and a vet sleuth who absolutely cannot stay out of trouble.
Award — Fiction
Love in the Wind
Can a business partnership survive a growing attraction — or will they have to choose?
Wyoming rancher Ben Parish is struggling to keep his ranch afloat. Veterinarian Darcy Fuller has moved to Wyoming for a fresh start, but building a new clientele is proving harder than she expected. Both have been badly burned by past relationships and have no interest in risking their hearts again.
When their paths cross, Darcy sees an opportunity that could help them both — but as their business partnership grows, so does something neither of them planned for.
Falling for a Cowboy
She's competent, independent, and a complete klutz — but only around him.
Biology professor Kendra Clark is sharp, capable, and fully in control of her life — until she's anywhere near cowboy Ricky Gaither. Then she turns into a babbling klutz. For his part, Ricky doesn't have much use for intellectuals or God. But every time they cross paths, the attraction between them is harder to ignore.
Can a relationship work between two people who seem to have nothing in common? Or does the secret Ricky carries make them more alike than either of them realizes?
Love's Trail of Redemption
A perfect match — except for the one challenge neither of them saw coming.
Cam Ellis and Olivia Anderson have worked side by side at Whispering Winds Ranch for two years without giving each other much thought — until suddenly everything changes. They're a perfect match in every way, except for the unexpected challenge that now stands between them.
Will an event from Cam's past hold him hostage to the future, or can he overcome his deepest fear and risk everything for love?
Honor Thy Father
Can twenty-five years of bitterness be undone by a desperate need?
Adam Wallace's children have every reason to turn their backs on him. His daughters haven't spoken to him in twenty-five years. His son was thrown out of the house. Now Adam faces a life-threatening illness — and his only hope is a bone marrow transplant from the very family he shattered.
Honor Thy Father is a compelling story of loss, redemption, and the quiet miracle of forgiveness — and how God can bring beauty from even the deepest wounds.
Honor Thy Father
The Wallace family's wounds run deep — but so does God's grace.
The Wallace family has spent twenty-five years in silence, each member carrying their own version of the hurt. Adam is running out of time. His children are running out of reasons to forgive. Now, as the family is forced back into the same orbit, old wounds are reopened — and so are doors that seemed permanently shut.
Episode Two of Honor Thy Father continues the story of loss, consequence, and the redemptive power of a God who can make beauty from ashes — even the deepest, longest-burning ones.
Don't Bite the Doctor
Real doctors treat more than one species. At least that's what veterinarian Jill Bennet tells herself.
On any given day, Jill may find herself doctoring dogs, cats, bunnies, birds, horses, pigs, or any other furry or feathered patient who crosses her path — striving to deliver compassion and competence to all God's creatures, in accordance with Colossians 3:23. Now, with over forty years of practice under her belt, she looks back on her early days as a young veterinarian in the 1980s, when women in the field were a rare and often unwelcome novelty.
It's a journey of learning and laughter — eccentric patients, less-than-helpful co-workers, and situations veterinary school never covered. And woven through it all is a budding romance with the owner of a sock-eating Labrador Retriever. Don't Bite the Doctor will bring smiles and tears to anyone who has ever been owned by an animal.
Save the Date
What if you were given the chance to rekindle the flame with your first love?
Hannah Jensen hasn't been back to her hometown in more than twenty years. Now a widow raising a teenaged daughter, she's faced with an unexpected invitation — her twenty-fifth high school reunion. It stirs up old memories, old insecurities, and the nagging question of what happened to the boy she never quite forgot.
Navigating well-meaning matchmakers, an eccentric family, and the growing pains she thought she'd left behind, Hannah finds herself on a path of self-discovery — and something far more important than a second chance at romance. Humorous, heartwarming, and deeply relatable, Save the Date is a story about the life lesson that matters most.
Other People's Children
A journey about becoming the mother to more than forty children.
Robin is a mid-thirties woman who is certain she has all the answers on proper parenting. It doesn't take long, however, before reality collides with her perfectly formed ideas — as she finds herself thrust into the overlapping roles of step-mother, adoptive mother, and foster mother.
Navigating the baggage, idiosyncrasies, and unique gifts of every child who crosses her path, Robin discovers there is no "one size fits all" method of parenting — and that God does, indeed, have a sense of humor. Heartwarming, funny, and deeply human, Other People's Children is a testament to the love that shows up even in a flawed and broken system.