Hi -

Welcome to my website!

I'm Kit Mackenzie, Western Author, aka Jo Ballantyne, artist. This site is primarily about my western trilogy Alias Jeannie Delaney, the first two novels of which are available on Amazon. Book 1 - Go West, Girl! was published two years ago, and Book 2 - The Outlaw's Return, was published last summer. Both have done extremely well, and I've acquired over a thousand readers! I'm highly bemused and the story's success feels very surreal.

I'll be updating this site with my publication journey and life in general, including my artistic endeavours, and if any visitor would like to say hi, I would really appreciate that!

The narrative of Alias Jeannie Delaney follows the story of dynamic and unyielding pants-wearing cowgirl Jeannie Morgan, who begins life in the bustling streets of New Orleans in 1865. Her rebellion against a Victorian girl's upbringing cannot be tamed.

When her family heads for the plains of Wyoming, she embraces grit and audacity and life on her Pa's ranch as a cowgirl. She learns to handle ranch work and fight alongside her brothers, but people treat her with awe and animosity over her mastery with a gun, her tomboy beauty and her powerful charisma.

Jeannie discovers her attraction for both men and women, their attraction for her, and the magnificence of her lovemaking — a revelation which hits her like a cattle stampede. When her girlfriend is viciously attacked, Jeannie, driven by rage and a thirst for justice, sets out to track down the culprits with her gun, aware that whatever the outcome, there will be no turning back...