Today it’s my pleasure to feature, Deadly Competition, the seventeenth book by a dear friend, Roxanne Rustand. She writes romances with suspense and yet a quirky sense of humor and a love of animals. Which pretty much describes her personality. Right now she owns 3 horses, 2 dogs, 8 barn cats and that’s after all her children have left home. I don’t want to tell you about her son’s pet snake….

Here’s the scoop on Deadly Competition-–
“The single mother hasn’t been found. And all her daughter, Sarah, has is her uncle. Clueless at parenting, Clint Herald seeks a loving, responsible nanny. What he finds instead is a stranger as mysterious as his sister’s disappearance. Mandy Erick is secretive and seems scared, yet she’s so good with Sarah that Clint can’t help but trust her. In fact, he even enters Mandy in the town’s Mother of the Year contest. But attention is the last thing Mandy wants. Her time in the public eye may prove just as dangerous as she fears. Excerpt: “The single mother hasn’t been found. And all her daughter, Sarah, has is her uncle. Clueless at parenting, Clint Herald seeks a loving, responsible nanny. What he finds instead is a stranger as mysterious as his sister’s disappearance.

Mandy Erick is secretive and seems scared, yet she’s so good with Sarah that Clint can’t help but trust her. In fact, he even enters Mandy in the town’s Mother of the Year contest. But attention is the last thing Mandy wants. Her time in the public eye may prove just as dangerous as she fears. Mandy Erick flinched as the door of the Greyhound slid shut behind her. The bus lumbered away, taking with it her chance to reach Texas or California or Oregon anytime soon. Leaving her standing on the edge of Loomis, Louisiana, a backwater town in the middle of nowhere. Though maybe the middle of nowhere was the safest place for someone who’d had to leave her old identity behind.”

To purchase: http://www.eharlequin.comstore.html;jsessionid=00C164E53E0203C5C0D554CDC6E6A90D?cid=359

For more about Roxanne Rustand, visit www.roxannerustand.com and her new blog “All Creatures Great and Small.”–Lyn