Brown Bag Author Event: Jan D. Payne

Name: Brown Bag Author Event: Jan D. Payne
Start: 2025-01-06T12:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-01-06T13:00:00-06:00
Location: Brainerd Public Library

Schedule

Mon Jan 06 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Brainerd Public Library | Brainerd, MN

Join us for a free author event at the Brainerd Public Library! Meet the author, hear their work, and ask questions. On Monday, January 6, 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m., Jan D. Payne will discuss her new thriller, “Rabbit Moon.”
In the book, 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 K*ll 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 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has agents investigating the abandoned uranium mines on the reservation and how Marin is connected. Marin needs to survive to find any answers, and to do so she is forced to run, going off the grid on her own in the Lukachukai mountains with unknown killers close behind.
Jan Payne lived on the Dineh (Navajo) reservation on the New Mexico side of the Lukachukai mountain range, where she climbed the mesas, took horseback camping trips, explored mountain ghost towns, and worked with her dad training horses. Her most memorable summer jobs include working with pack-mule trains at a dude ranch and a brief stint as camp cook in a uranium mining camp. 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. 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
This presentation is sponsored by the Friends of the Brainerd Public Library through their volunteer and fundraising efforts. No registration is required, and all are welcome.
Bring your own brown bag lunch, or just enjoy the light refreshments provided by the Friends of the Brainerd Public Library.