Ellen Fannon - Winged Publications

Award winning author, Ellen Fannon, is a practicing veterinarian, former missionary, and church pianist/organist. She originated and wrote the Pet Peeves column for the Northwest Florida Daily News before taking a two-year assignment with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board. She and her husband have been foster parents for more than 40 children, and the adoptive parents of two sons. Her articles appear regularly in One Christian Voice and she has a story published in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Life Lessons From the Dog. In addition, she writes a weekly humor blog on her website https://ellenfannonauthor.com and online for the Northwest Florida Daily News https://nwfdailynews.com. Her first novel, Other People’s Children, the humorous account of the life of a foster parent, is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the trunk of her car. She lives in Valparaiso with her husband, son, and assorted pets

🐾 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 chaos—barking dogs, opinionated cats, and volunteers who mean well but don’t always follow instructions. What she doesn’t expect is the arrival of a nasty new director whose iron-fisted management style sends morale and ethics into free fall.

As animals disappear, funds don’t add up, and tempers flare hotter than an overcrowded kennel, Amanda can’t ignore the feeling that something’s fishy. Then the director turns up murdered—and suddenly the shelter is crawling with secrets, suspects, and motives. Worse? Amanda had a run-in with the victim, she discovers the body, and the police suddenly have their sights set on her.

With Amanda’s reputation, career, and freedom on the line, she teams up with her quirky friends to sniff out the truth and clear her name. But digging into the director’s shadowy dealings could prove dangerous. Because in a place built to protect the innocent, someone has a very deadly agenda.

Hounded by Murder is a laugh-out-loud cozy mystery packed with lovable animals, sharp humor, small-town secrets, and a veterinarian sleuth who just can’t stay out of trouble. Perfect for fans of animal cozy mysteries, female amateur sleuths, and clean whodunits with heart. AMAZON

Veterinarian Amy Dixon thought she was just helping out at the county dog show. Instead, she ends up in a dog-eat-dog world of rival breeders, pampered pooches, and one very dead Chihuahua breeder.

All Amy wanted was a quiet day filling in for a sick colleague. What she got was a snarling confrontation with Mildred Blankenship, the queen of the Chihuahua circuit—followed by a front-row seat to a growing list of people who’d be just fine if Mildred took her last lap around the show ring.

Then Mildred drops dead, and it turns out someone wasn’t bluffing.

With Amy suddenly in the doghouse as a murder suspect, she teams up with charming snack-stand guy Nick Wyman to sniff out the real killer. But as they dig into the tangled leashes of show dog drama, they realize this mystery has more twists than a poodle’s perm.

Will Amy and Nick find the culprit before someone else gets collared—or are they about to be the next ones put down? AMAZON

Wyoming rancher, Ben Parish, is struggling to keep his ranch afloat.

Veterinarian, Darcy Fuller has moved to Wyoming to start a new life but is struggling to become established in a new area.

Both have been badly burned by past relationships and are not looking to become involved in another. When their paths cross, Darcy has an idea to bring extra income to the ranch, as well as provide her with an outlet for her passion for working with horses.

But can their growing attraction coexist with a business partnership? AMAZON

Biology professor, Kendra Clark, is an independent, competent, intelligent woman of faith—that is, until she is around cowboy, Ricky Gaither. Then she becomes a babbling klutz.

For his part, Ricky doesn’t have much use for intellectuals or God. But when they keep running into each other, they can’t deny their growing attraction.

Can a relationship work between two people who seem to have nothing in common? Or does the secret Ricky harbors make them more alike than Kendra realizes?

And will that secret derail any hope for a relationship? AMAZON

Cam Ellis and Olivia Anderson have worked at Whispering Winds Ranch for two years without paying much attention to each other—until suddenly, things change. They are a perfect match in every way, except for the one challenge neither of them expected to enter their lives.

Will an event from Cam’s past hold him hostage to moving forward, or can he overcome his deepest fear to risk everything for love? AMAZON

Why should Adam’s daughters, with whom he hasn’t had contact for twenty-five years, honor him now when he needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant?

Why should his son, who was kicked out of the house, honor his father? Is there any hope of reconciliation when twenty-five years of anger, bitterness, and divergent pathways have led family members down different roads of life?

Honor Thy Father is the compelling story of loss and redemption and how God can turn tragedy into triumph.

How does a family survive after being torn apart? Adam Wallace copes with the heartbreaking loss of his wife and daughters by immersing himself in his work. Charlotte withdraws from everyone and everything around her. Dana, living a life of privilege, does not even realize her loss. Katrina copes by trying to make everyone else happy. Scott copes by rebellion. Ultimately, they all come to realize that God can work through every situation to make beauty out of ashes. AMAZON

Why should Adam’s daughters, with whom he hasn’t had contact for twenty-five years, honor him now when he needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant? Why should his son, who was kicked out of the house, honor his father? Is there any hope of reconciliation when twenty-five years of anger, bitterness, and divergent pathways have led family members down different roads of life?

Honor Thy Father is the compelling story of loss and redemption and how God can turn tragedy into triumph.

Real doctors treat more than one species.

At least that’s what veterinarian, Jill Bennet tells herself.

On any given day, she may find herself doctoring dogs, cats, bunnies, birds, horses, pigs, or any other furry or feathered patient who crosses her path—striving daily 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, Jill reflects back to her time as a new, young veterinarian in the early eighties—a time when women veterinarians were just beginning to become a presence among the previously male-dominated profession.

Out in the real world, Jill finds herself in situations never covered in veterinary school. It is a journey of learning and laughter, as Jill contends with a variety of animal patients and their eclectic humans attached to the other end of the leash (and the checkbook), as well as less-than-helpful co-workers. Interwoven into this mix of new experiences is her budding romance with the owner of the sock-eating Labrador Retriever. Don’t Bite the Doctor promises to bring smiles and tears to anyone who has ever been owned by an animal. AMAZON

What if you were given the chance to rekindle the flame with your first love? What happened to all those girls who were mean to you in school? Should Hannah Jensen take the chance of attending her high school reunion to find out?

Hannah hasn’t been back to her hometown in more than twenty years. Now, a widow, raising a teenaged daughter, she has the opportunity to go home for her twenty-fifth high school reunion. The invitation to the reunion stirs up a lot of old memories at the same time she is dealing with loneliness, the challenges of single-parenting a teenager, people who want to “set her up” with eligible men, her own insecurities, and her eccentric family.

The story interweaves the present with scenes from Hannah’s past and her fantasy of “happily ever after” with her high school boyfriend in a humorous and entertaining manner. Her feelings from being “shunned” by the cool kids resurface as she reflects back on her time as a teenager. There are several roadblocks on Hannah’s journey from a teenager through her present. The growing pains and amusing situations in which she finds herself are ones to which we all can relate. As she walks the path of self-discovery, she also discovers the most important life lesson of all–her relationship to God. AMAZON