Bridge to Xanadu (Miz Mike #3)

From finding a dead body in the dumpster at the sheriff’s office to being straddled by a knife-welding rapist and serial killer, Texas’ Miz Mike is back in her most gripping and humorous mystery-romance-suspense ever, Bridge to Xanadu.
Who wouldn’t chase after a porcupine to get a photo for a friend’s newspaper during a slow news week? Only when detective writer Michal Allison Rice (Miz Mike to friends) does exactly that, she finds a woman’s body. Worse yet, Mike is convinced that the murderer fled with the victim’s young daughter—but no one believes her.
Life at 40-something with two attractive, desirable men vying for her love should be easy. The only decision Mike should face is whether to marry her longtime cowboy hero Marty Richards, or animal-lover Frank Kophal. Instead, her efforts to find the murderer and rescue the child send her on a collision course with Chief Alan Bitterroot, a Native American herbal specialist and artist who holds all the magical allure of Xanadu for Mike.
The murderer sets fire to Mike’s home; pelts her with rocks; shoves her off a steep cliff, and kidnaps her. Yet the greatest danger Mike faces is that of falling passionately and irrevocably in love with a younger man, Chief Alan Bitterroot.
Before Mike can either flee back to Marty or Frank, or walk through the mystical corridor of love with Alan, she is pinned to the ground at knifepoint by the enraged killer. How will Mix Mike escape and go back to minding her own business, as she always does?