Roxanne got her first horse at the tender age of six, and grew up riding bareback throughout her small Minnesota town year around. It was like giving a child car keys! She has never been without a horse since. She showed horses for many years, and later, she and her husband raised quarter horses and thoroughbreds until their kids came along.

She's now living her childhood dream, while living on an acreage in the country, with her husband, just three horses (all elderly pasture ornaments now), a golden retriever rescue, and six fluffy barn cats--a much smaller menagerie than when their three kids were still at home. Ranches, animals, and small-town life frequently find their way into her books.

Roxanne has a bachelor's degree in Public Health and Dental Hygiene, then switched gears and earned a master's degree in nutrition--oh so helpful when it comes to writing novels!

She worked as a registered dietitian (MS RD LD) until her husband encouraged her to stay home and write. If not writing at home in her jammies or spending time with her family, you'll find her riding one of the family's horses, playing with her cameras, or hiding with her nose in a book.

You can visit her website at www.roxannerustand.com to email her, and find news about her books, where to buy them, and various articles. Sign up for her newsletter with family recipes, information on contests and prizes (monthly winners!), and news about any upcoming book releases.

The Book Bub and Amazon addresses below are a great place to follow her, and there you can choose to receive announcements about new releases.

https://bookbub.com/authors/roxanne-rustand

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www.sweetromancereads.com

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ABOUT HER BOOKS: Roxanne is the award-winning author of forty romantic suspense and heart-warming, emotional relationship novels for Superromance, Heartwarming, Everlasting, Love Inspired, and Love Inspired Suspense. She also writes sweet romance for the indie market, and contributed to the trade paperback, ORCHESTRATED MURDER.

Her first manuscript won the Romance Writers of America Golden Heart in Long Contemporary, and her second was a Golden Heart finalist.

MURDER AT GRANITE FALLS won the RT Bookclub Magazine Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Love Inspired Suspense of 2011.

DUTY TO PROTECT was also nominated for that award in 2011, and End Game was nominated in 2010.

A MAN SHE CAN TRUST won the RT Bookclub Magazine's award for Best Superromance of 2006, and Roxanne was nominated for RT's Career Achievement Award in 2005.

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