

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. Early life Ĭonnealy was born in Oakland, Nebraska, and grew up on a farm in rural Lyons, Nebraska. Rafe is more intrigued by Julia than any woman he’s ever known.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. The last thing he expects is to find a woman trapped in the cavern on his land–or to be forced to kiss her! Rafe Kincaid is a man used to being in control–of himself, his brothers, and his family’s ranch. The cave seems plenty safe–until the day a mysterious intruder steals the rope she uses to climb out.

She particularly enjoys studying the fossils and formations in the magnificent cave near her father’s house. Julia Gilliland has always been interested in the natural world around her.

Rafe Kincaid controls everything in his life… until he meets Julia.
