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Novelist · Northwoods, Wisconsin

Stories of the quiet
courage it takes
to begin again.

Character-driven historical and contemporary fiction — the kind of book a circle of friends reads together and talks about long after the last page.

A novelist who spent thirty years as a counselor, Ceone Fenn writes the inner lives of ordinary people with rare tenderness and depth.

Ceone Fenn, novelist
Jade Ring Award — Wisconsin Writers' Association 4.56 & 4.27 average on Goodreads Two novels · a third underway
The Novels

Books made for reading together

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To Reap the Finest Wheat

Historical Fiction · 2015

Katerina Danek trades her life in L'viv for an arranged marriage on the 1925 Saskatchewan prairie — and a respected husband whose private truth endangers her, and the stepson she's come to love.

★★★★★ 4.56 Goodreads
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It Happened at Whisper Lake

Contemporary Women's Fiction · 2022

When her husband — a celebrated college coach — is arrested for crimes at his lakefront camp, Luella Laurent must weather a town's judgment, a family's fracture, and the long work of reclaiming a life worth living.

★★★★ 4.27 Goodreads
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Watercolor of a misty Northwoods lake at dusk with a pair of loons
The Northwoods, at dusk.

“Superbly written and spellbinding. Ceone Fenn has created a memorable character, showing us how to reclaim a life worth living.” Christine DeSmet · award-winning author & UW–Madison writing faculty

For Book Clubs

Free reading-group guides for every novel

Discussion questions written for the themes her counseling years made her fluent in — resilience, betrayal, the quiet negotiations of family. On-page or printable for your meeting.

Have Ceone join your discussion — in person or on Zoom
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