
Shannon has been writing one thing or another since third grade and finished her first novel at age fifteen—but waited more than thirty years for her first book contract. In the meantime, she graduated from high school, attended college, met and married her husband, birthed nine children, lost one, taught five to drive, revised that first story innumerable times, and completed six others. Her first published novella, Defending Truth, in A Pioneer Christmas Collection (Barbour, 2013 & 2015), was a 2014 RITA® nominee, and her most recent one, The Wise Guy and the Star in Love's Pure Light was a 2021 SELAH winner. She writes regularly for Colonial Quills, is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Faith-Hope-Love Christian Writers, and is represented by Tamela Hancock Murray of the Steve Laube Agency. Transplanted to North Dakota after more than two decades in Charleston, South Carolina, she loves losing herself in local history. When this homeschooling mom isn't cooking, researching, or leaking story from her fingertips, she enjoys being outdoors, basking in the beauty of the northern prairies.
Series
Books

The Rebel Bride
2019

Rebecca
2023

Mary
2022

The Cumberland Bride
2018

Defending Truth
2013

The Cumberland Bride, SAMPLE
2019

The Most Eligible Bachelor Romance Collection
2015

The Blue Cloak
2020

The Backcountry Brides Collection
Eight 18th Century Women Seek Love on Colonial America's Frontier
2018

The Counterfeit Tory
2023

The Highwayman
2018

Virginia
2024

Elinor
2021