Howdy!

Can it really be December already? It sure doesn’t seem like it, with Thanksgiving falling so late this year and our balmy weather.

Most years we have snow by now here in Eastern Iowa, but our first light snow is long gone, and we’re seeing foggy mornings and a lot of mud.

So I slog around doing my horse chores morning and night, and hope that when i take each step in Susie’s corral, my boots come along with me.  🙂  This is a photo I took just this morning, while doing chores. I would have included some of the mares, but they all look like big mud balls!

But…that’s not all that is happening at our place…I’m excited about the new release of my first independently published book!

It’s now up on Amazon for Kindles for just $2.99, and will soon be available for Nook and all the rest, as well as  in print!

CLICK HERE TO BUY:  Comeback Cowboy (Shadows of the Rockies)

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I loved writing this book–it’s truly a book from my heart, country gal that I am. 🙂

For my research, I got to ride with a rodeo contractor and spend a lot of time interviewing bullriders, clowns, and others who are behind the scenes in rodeo.

But this definitely isn’t just about rodeo…it’s about  people who have made mistakes in the past and who must deal with the repercussions, and it has suspense and romance woven throughout.

It was originally published as Rodeo! but has been fully updated, and revised in keeping with the style of books I write now–sweet (not hot and sexy) romance, and inspirational fiction. Actually, my books were never hot anyway, but I so love concentrating on all of the emotion, tension and conflict of finding that one person who was meant to be–while being able to firmly “shut the bedroom door.”  🙂

So if you enjoy a warm, emotional read, I hope you will give it a try!   This is the first book in my Shadows of the Rockies series.  The second book in the series, A Montana Legacy, will be out by  January, and the third will be out in early spring, 2014.

An unrelated title,  Summer at Briar Lake, should be out in a few weeks.

Oh–and by the way, my quarterly newsletter suffered a major crash last year, but it is finally up and running again, and I’ll be sending out the first, newly redesigned newsletter in a couple weeks.  If you aren’t a subscriber, you can click on the red button at the top right corner of this website.  It’s free, of course, and will always include a favorite family recipe, some photos, and information on a drawing!  This time, it’s for a big, beautiful new Laurel Burch “Moroccan Mares” tote bag containing some prizes!

I hope you had  a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Roxanne