Oklahoma author and Southeastern Oklahoma State University graduate Joanna Duncan has published her debut novel, Mystic Moons of McCurtain County.
Duncan earned two degrees from SE, a Bachelor in Education/Language Arts in 1982 and a Master in Education/ School Administration in 1989. She holds two additional degrees from East Central University, Master in Education/Library Media SpecialistandMasterinEducation/ School Counseling. After serving 37 years as a high school English teacher (BrokenBowandLatta),high school principal (Battiest and Haworth) and districtlevel administrator (Calvin and Madill), she is presently retired and fulfilling her lifelong dream of writing novels.
Mystic Moons of McCurtain County, an inspirational romantic suspense with military intrigue, is available for purchase on Amazon. Book signings will be scheduled locally after the holidays.
Steeped in Native American legend, the story is set in the Ouachita Mountains of rural southeastern Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation.
Two young couples repeat mock marital vows in a carnival wedding booth, but as they grow up and apart, little in life turns out as they expect. Years later, the companions reunite at Thanksgiving, but a river floods, trapping them in the hills, and by the time the holiday meal is served, someone will be missing at the table. Thoughthefriendssharedan idyllic childhood growing up, the ties that bind their once tight knit relationships are tested in a tender love story that will first wound, then warm the heart.
Chet Phillips never imagines that a promise he makes to his dying grandfather will invite danger home. The young rancher has just lost his last blood relative, unless he counts his estranged sister Chaya, a Marine sniper who is missing in action and presumed dead. Accompanied by a mysterious investigator with questionable motives, Chet sets out in search of his sister and eventually locates her at a shelter where she is hiding out from a ruthless gang of drug traffickers. Chet brings Chaya back to the family’s wild mustang refuge where they gather with old friends, and after a betrayal of someone close, a fierce battle for survival ensues. Once the unimaginable happens, Chet is not looking for love, but he finds his soul mate when he least expects it, right beside him where she has been all along.