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Ruth Ryan Langan (born December 12, 1937 in Detroit) was an American writer of romance novels. She is a New York Times Bestselling author of over one hundred novels, both historical and contemporary under the penname Ruth Langan. She also writes contemporary Western romantic suspense for Grand Central Publishing, as well as some novellas for Jove under the pseudonym R. C. Ryan. Biography Ruth Ryan Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America, and a member of DWW (Detroit Working Writers). She has five children and lives in Michigan. Bibliography As Ruth Langan Texas Texas Heart (1989) Texas Healer (1992) Texas Hero (1993)Highlander Series One Christmas Night (1999) also in omnibus One Christmas Night Highland Barbarian (1990) also in omnibus Ransomed Brides Highland Heather (1991) Highland Fire (1991) Highland Heart (1992) The Highlander (1994) Highland Heaven (1995)The Jewels of Texas Diamond (1996) Pearl (1996) Jade (1997) Ruby (1997) Malachite (1998)O'Neil Saga Rory (2002) Conor (1999) Briana (1999)Wildes of Wyoming Chance (2000) Hazard (2000) Ace (2000)Sirens of the Sea The Sea Witch (2000) The Sea Nymph (2001) The Sea Sprite (2001)Lassiter Law By Honor Bound (2001) Return of the Prodigal Son (2002) Banning's Woman (2002) His Father's Son (2002)Sullivan Sisters Awakening Alex (2001) Loving Lizbeth (2001) Seducing Celeste (2001)Badlands Badlands Law (2002) Badlands Legend (2002) Badlands Heart (2002)Mystical Highlands Highland Sword (2003) The Betrayal (2003) The Knight and the Seer (2003)Devil’s Cove Cover-Up (2004) also in Cover-Up / Shadows of the Past Wanted (2004) Vendetta (2004) Retribution (2004)Stand Alone Novels Just Like Yesterday (1981) Hidden Isle (1983) Beloved Gambler (1984) No Gentle Love (1984) Eden of Temptation (1984) Nevada Nights (1985) This Time Forever (1985) Star-crossed (1985) Family Secrets (1985) To Love a Dreamer (1985) September's Dream (1985) Mysteries of the Heart (1986) Whims of Fate (1986) The Proper Miss Porter (1987) Destiny's Daughter (1987) Mistress of the Seas (1988) Passage West (1988) The Heart's Secrets (1989) Captive of Desire (1990) Christmas Miracle (1992) Addy Starr (1992) Deception (1993) All That Glitters (1994) Christmas Miracle (1994) Dulcie's Gift (1996) The Courtship of Izzy McCree (1998) Blackthorne (1998) Paradise Falls (2004) Ashes of Dreams (2005) Duchess of Fifth Avenue (2006) Heart's Delight (2007) Angel (2014) Cross His Heart (2015) Passion's Law (2001) #7 in The Coltons Series Snowbound Cinderella (1999) #6 in the Fortunes of Texas Series Maverick Hearts (1996) also in omnibus Outlaw BridesAs R. C. Ryan McCords Montana Legacy (2010) Montana Destiny (2010) Montana Glory (2010)Wyoming Sky Quinn (2012) Josh (2012) Jake (2013)Copper Creek Cowboys The Maverick of Copper Creek (2014) The Rebel of Copper Creek (2015) The Legacy of Copper Creek (2015)Home for Christmas Home for Christmas (2015) Christmas at Bitter Creek (2015) also in omnibus Historical Christmas Stories 1990 and Safe Haven for ChristmasMalloys of Montana Matt (2016) Luke (2016) A Cowboy's Christmas Eve (2016) Reed (2017)Montana Strong Cowboy on my Mind (2018) Cowboy Next Door (2019) A Cowboy To Love (2019)Anthologies and collections References External links Official website . Discover the Ruth Ryan Langan popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ruth Ryan Langan books.

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  • Ace synopsis, comments

    Ace

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    The wildest of the Wilde brothers, Ace Wilde is CEO of WildeMining, and a whiz at games of chance. Desperate to pay her grandfather's medical bills, Ally Brady decides that the han...

  • Highland Barbarian synopsis, comments

    Highland Barbarian

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Scottish Highland adventure from New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan . . .Meredith MacAlpin, Scottish noblewoman, is kidnapped at the altar by infamous Highland Ba...

  • The Knight and The Seer synopsis, comments

    The Knight and The Seer

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Book 3 in The Mystical Highlands Series. Unlike the other members of her magical family, Gwenellen Drummond has never been able to discern her special powers until a spell gone awr...

  • Texas Historical Romance Box Set synopsis, comments

    Texas Historical Romance Box Set

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan: Three Western Historical Romance Novels"... delivers it all with pageturning romance!" Nora Roberts, New York Times bestse...

  • Highlander Series Six-Book Box Set synopsis, comments

    Highlander Series Six-Book Box Set

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    HIGHLANDER SERIES SIXBOOK BOX SETHIGHLAND BARBARIANMeredith MacAlpin, Scottish noblewoman, is kidnapped at the altar by infamous Highland Barbarian, Brice Campbell, and spirited aw...

  • The Betrayal synopsis, comments

    The Betrayal

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Book 2 in The Mystical Highlands Series. Grant MacCallum, a powerful laird, journeys to the Mystical Kingdom seeking a woman with the gift of Sight who will help him uncover a trai...

  • Duchess of Fifth Avenue synopsis, comments

    Duchess of Fifth Avenue

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan ... A Historical Romance Classic."Characters so incredibly human the reader will expect them to come over for tea." Affaire...

  • Highland Heather synopsis, comments

    Highland Heather

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Brenna MacAlpin is leader of her clan, and a powerful woman in Scotland, but when she faces Morgan Grey, known throughout her land as The Queen's Savage, a fierce English warrior w...

  • Christmas Miracle synopsis, comments

    Christmas Miracle

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan ... A Historical Romance Classic. "... delivers it all with pageturning romance!" Nora Roberts, New York Times bestselling...

  • The Proper Miss Porter synopsis, comments

    The Proper Miss Porter

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Romance Classic from New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan.Alexandra Porter was prim, practical, and determined to keep her private life separate from her work. The ...

  • Beloved Gambler synopsis, comments

    Beloved Gambler

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Romance Classic from New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan.Lane Winters has achieved her dream of being a famous singer. Ross Matthews is the lover she left behind. ...

  • Mistress of the Seas synopsis, comments

    Mistress of the Seas

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan ... A Historical Romance Classic. "... delivers it all with pageturning romance!" Nora Roberts, New York Times bestselling...

  • Ashes of Dreams synopsis, comments

    Ashes of Dreams

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan ... A Historical Romance Classic."A popular writer of heartwarming, emotionally involving romances." Library JournalAmanda ...

  • Badlands Law synopsis, comments

    Badlands Law

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Sheriff Conover knew trouble when he saw it and Billie Calley was definitely big trouble. Problems erupted from the moment she arrived in the Badlands town of Misery.But the brawl...

  • Texas Heart synopsis, comments

    Texas Heart

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan ... A Historical Romance Classic. Texas born Jessie Conway sets off on a reckless journey to find her father, who left on a...

  • The Sea Nymph synopsis, comments

    The Sea Nymph

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    BOOK TWO in the SIRENS OF THE SEA Historical Romance Series. During a nighttime encounter with infamous highwayman Lord of the Night, Bethany Lambert experiences a kiss that awaken...

  • The Sea Sprite synopsis, comments

    The Sea Sprite

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    BOOK THREE in the SIRENS OF THE SEA Historical Romance Series. Darcy Lambert has loved Gray Barton since childhood. When his ship is lost at sea in a fiery disaster, Darcy buries h...

  • Nevada Nights synopsis, comments

    Nevada Nights

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Ruth Ryan Langan Historical Romance Classic.Cameron McCormick arrives in Virginia City, Nevada to join a family of strangers led by the father she has never known. She is thrust ...

  • Seducing Celeste synopsis, comments

    Seducing Celeste

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Book Three in The Sullivan Sister SeriesCeleste Sullivan has turned her family's Old Liberty Tavern into a successful inn. Instead of the promotion she anticipates, she finds herse...

  • Family Secrets synopsis, comments

    Family Secrets

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Romance Classic from New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan.Millionaire Trudy St. Martin is being blackmailed. Ivy Murdoch, the gardener's daughter, is invited back t...

  • Mysteries of the Heart synopsis, comments

    Mysteries of the Heart

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Romance Classic from New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan.Seth Williams, brilliant writerillustrator of children's books, has a reputation as an angry recluse. When...

  • Hazard synopsis, comments

    Hazard

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Rugged veterinarian Hazard Wilde believes in his father's legacy the land and the cattle. A mysterious threat to his precious herds introduces him to Dr. Erin Ryan, raised in Bost...

  • The Roses of Glenross synopsis, comments

    The Roses of Glenross

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Novella from the Once Upon a Rose AnthologyIn wartorn Scotland, a wounded lass finds shelter in an abbey, tending roses in a haunted rose garden. A fierce warrior, recovering fro...

  • Whims of Fate synopsis, comments

    Whims of Fate

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Romance Classic from New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan.Schoolteacher Kirstin Stevens wins the trip of a lifetime. A chance encounter with a man named Stefan on a...

  • The Highlander synopsis, comments

    The Highlander

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Leonora Waltham is the key to saving Dillon Campbell's younger brothers. But when this giant Highland savage captures her, she proves to be his match in strengthofwill and cunning....

  • Badlands Heart synopsis, comments

    Badlands Heart

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Kitty Conover was a familiar figure in Misery. Dressed in buckskins, with her yellow curls tucked under a widebrimmed hat, she’d been known to follow a herd of mustangs for weeks. ...

  • Highland Sword synopsis, comments

    Highland Sword

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Book 1 in the Mystical Highlands Series.'Twas like a quest out of legend, Merrick MacAndrew knew, but he would risk anything to save his dying soneven kidnapping Allegra Drummond, ...

  • Highland Heart synopsis, comments

    Highland Heart

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ryan Langan.Jamie MacDonald, a fierce warrior known throughout the Highlands as the Heartless MacDonald, searches for a traitor among th...

  • Awakening Alex synopsis, comments

    Awakening Alex

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Book One of The Sullivan Sisters SeriesAlexandra Sullivan is living her dream job, running the Snug Harbor Lodge. Loner Grant Malone gradually leaves the cares of the city behind t...

  • Captive of Desire synopsis, comments

    Captive of Desire

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Ruth Ryan Langan Historical Romance Classic.A blood feud.Blazing hatred.Love denied.As the last survivor of her clan, Alana O'Donnell is targeted for death by Sloan Townsend, son...

  • Paradise Falls synopsis, comments

    Paradise Falls

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    "Ruth Ryan Langan tells a story that's warm as a quilt on a snowy evening and tender as love's first kiss. PARADISE FALLS is a book that touches the heart and comforts the soul." ...

  • Texas Hero synopsis, comments

    Texas Hero

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan ... A Historical Romance Classic. "... delivers it all with pageturning romance!" Nora Roberts, New York Times bestselling...

  • Texas Healer synopsis, comments

    Texas Healer

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan ... A Historical Romance Classic. Dr. Dan Conway, wounded while healing a Comanche child, becomes a legend known as Pale Wo...

  • Chance synopsis, comments

    Chance

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Like his father, Chance Wilde is a risktaker, leading him and his brothers to turn a hardscrabble ranch into a Wyoming empire. Chance's life has been all business until his brother...

  • Cross His Heart synopsis, comments

    Cross His Heart

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Romance Classic from New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan.To pay her bills, Kendall McKinnon has opened her Maine home to guests. Her first paying guest, Neal Thoma...

  • Passage West synopsis, comments

    Passage West

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    A Ruth Ryan Langan Historical Romance Classic.Abby Market and her family join a wagon train heading West, leaving behind all that is familiar.A gunman named Rourke, a loner, a batt...

  • Diamond synopsis, comments

    Diamond

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Book One in The Jewels of Texas Historical Romance Series by New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan.Diamond Jewel is a spoiled, willful hellcat, bent on avenging the mu...

  • Deception synopsis, comments

    Deception

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan ... A Historical Romance Classic. "... delivers it all with pageturning romance!" Nora Roberts, New York Times bestselling...

  • Angel synopsis, comments

    Angel

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan ... A Historical Romance Classic. "... delivers it all with pageturning romance!" Nora Roberts, New York Times bestselling...

  • Loving Lizbeth synopsis, comments

    Loving Lizbeth

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Book Two in The Sullivan Sisters SeriesReserved innkeeper Lizbeth Sullivan isn't prepared for the feelings unlocked by guest Colin St. James. But he's filled with a sense of wander...

  • The Sea Witch synopsis, comments

    The Sea Witch

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    BOOK ONE in the SIRENS OF THE SEA Historical Romance Series. After the death of her father and brother, Ambrosia Lambert accepts the services of handsome sea captain Riordan Spence...

  • Highland Fire synopsis, comments

    Highland Fire

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Fierce Irish warrior Kieran O'Mara is a man on the run from an English prison.Beautiful Highland firebrand Megan MacAlpin sustains a serious head wound while fighting off a band of...

  • Highland Heaven synopsis, comments

    Highland Heaven

    Ruth Ryan Langan

    Shaw Campbell storms his enemy's camp to free his twin brother.Merritt Lamont will use whatever means necessary to see to the safety of her clan. Though there have been few men she...