Absentminded pediatrician Dr. Rick Lawton and registered nurse Janet Coombs aren't interested in an office romance.

Rick is now a widower and he doesn't want to set himself up for that kind of loss ever again. Now he dates primarily career women who aren't interested in marriage — or children.

Janet is a single mom trying to be both parents to her two young sons. She knows how demanding a doctor's job can be. The last man she wants to consider for new husband material is a dedicated physician, no matter how handsome he is.

But when he hires her to work in his office, Rick and Janet discover that their vital signs are heading to record elevations. Both in the office and socially they cannot deny their strong attraction to one another. Diagnosis: Love.

Sandi Haddad is a former nurse who now uses her medical background in some of her books. Her first AVALON romance, A Stable Relationship, won the Virginia Romance Writers' Holt medallion. She and her husband live in Florida with their youngest three children, two horses, and a menagerie of pets. When she's not reading or writing romance, Sandi likes classic car shows, horseback riding, gardening, and spoiling her grandchildren.

You can visit her web page at: http://www.sandistar.com

Vital Signs is Sandi's second romance novel for AVALON.