Award winning romance author, Ruth Ryan Langan began her writing career in secret. Her clandestine passion was discovered when her children came home from school one day and found her writing. The children exposed their mother’s secret to their father. He responded by buying her an electric typewriter “because writers need tools.” Silhouette Books published her first romance in 1981. Langan mostly writes historical romances but has been known to dabble in the contemporary category as well. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement award winner and Reviewers’ Choice Award nominee.
Langan is married with five children. She resides in Michigan.
THE LOVE SHE LEFT BEHIND He was the only man who had ever called her Mike. And now, years after their bitter parting, Michelle Miller Scott had to face Erick McCord once again. She had returned to Northern Michigan to negotiate a merger between he...
SHE HAD TO RESIST HIM Morgan Anders struggled hard to succeed on her own terms, so she looked forward to a working vacation as secretary to a screenwriter on his Canadian island retreat. But Kent Taylor turned out to be a paradox: suspicious, g...
Once Lane Winters had been a girl with dreams of glory: She would sing and the world would listen. Ross Matthews was the man--the lover--she had left behind in her quest to make it on her own. The dream had come true. Her voice had indeed been ...
EXECUTIVE LOVE Kate Halloran was a tiny dynamo, full of sharp business sense and energy. It took a man like Drew Carlson to recognize the sensuality beneath her well-tailored suit. When Kate reluctantly became Drew's assistant, he assumed she was ...
A VERY PROPER LADY He called her a little prude, likened her to the Victorian ladies who had come to his lush Hawaiian island in the nineteenth century. But she was no prude, Ann Lowry insisted, just because she dressed conservatively, kept to ...
"Love Jordan Hunter all night long and you'll get her out of your system." That's what Clint Donner's brothers had told him when he was young, but it hadn',t worked out that way. Clint had left home to become a country-music star, and Jordan, year...
ROOM FOR ONE MORE If she could have, Casey would have taken in every child who needed her. But her day-care center was full, and she had to say no, even to the commanding Luke Pierson. Then one look from his son's vulnerable eyes changed her mind....
Perhaps if she'd met him under different circumstances--another time, another place. B.J. knew the arrogant Adam London thought she was just another reporter searching for glory. But his mother, the reclusive screen star, wanted her story told and hi...
THEY WERE ALL SUSPECTS... in the blackmailing of Trudy St. Martin. So for her eightieth birthday, all family members were invited to return to the fabulous St. Martin estate to celebrate...and to prove their innocence. Ivy Murdock, the gardener's...
BURIED SECRETS .. . HIDDEN DESIRES Did Seth Williams treat everyone with such disdain . . . or just her? Jenny Mason knew the brilliant writer-illustrator of children's books had a reputation as an angry recluse, but her editorial skills were bein...
Once upon a time, a beautiful schoolteacher won a trip to a land of royalty and romance. A Mediterranean kingdom, Maurab was very far from Ohio--the place Kirsten Stevens called home. On a deserted beach during the twilight hour, Kirsten met Stefa...
PRIM AND PROPER Alexandra Porter was the most practical, the most levelheaded, frustratingly uncooperative woman Clif Andrews had ever met. She was also a loyal employee and a devoted mother. So loyal and devoted, she didn't have time to consider ...
She sailed the waves of danger and intrigue...into the arms of love. A Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen of England? Rory MacLaren felt the stirring of his Scottish warrior's blood as he confronted the ravishing beauty he'd last seen commanding a n...
Only one woman would ever claim his heart. Bad Company Jessie Conway's family always came first. She would brave anything to find her father--even the likes of a man she thought a dangerous gunslinger. Cole Matthews was on the trail of a col...
Rivals by birth, lovers by destiny... A Time of Treachery and Deceit Scottish noblewoman Meredith MacAlpin feared for her life when the infamous Brice Campbell spirited her away to his mist-shrouded castle. For it was said that the legendary Hi...
Matthew Braden had spent his whole life in and out of trouble, and Laura Connors knew he'd never change. She told herself she just needed a man to help out around the ranch, but the one present she was hoping for this Christmas was that Matthew would...
Traitorous heart. The Queen's Savage As Brenna MacAlpin looked at the fierce, dark warrior, who had spent a lifetime defending his English queen, her blood ran cold. For she was the leader of a Scottish border clan and would give her life for h...
Unknown heart. A Scottish Tempest Kieran O'Mara had never seen a female wield a sword with the skill and determination of the Scottish lass he knew only as Megan. No other woman had ever touched him with such fire, yet until she regained her me...
Comes a stranger... The Way of the Warrior Jamie MacDonald's was a loner- and a dangerous task--to unite the feuding Highland clans against a traitor's conspiracy. His desperate search for allies led him to Clan Gordon and. against his better j...
A Healing Heart... Dr. Dan Conway, wounded while saving a Comanche child from brutality, had been brought to a Comanche camp. His healing powers soon became legendary, yet he wanted no payment for curing the Indians of the "white man's disease." H...
Gift of the Heart Christmas magic was hard to find along the trail west in 1866. But Lizzy Spooner was determined that her war-weary family would hold on to their dreams, even in the wilds of New Mexico, where the winter snows were deep and the me...
Where Had Miss Caroline Adams Come From? Thad Conway was certain the new schoolmarm was not the prim, bookish spinster she pretended to be. "Miss Adams" played the part well enough, but he had glimpsed the fire in her soul--and the haunted look in...
Kidnapped! The Lady Leonora Waltham was Dillon Campbell's surety that his beloved brothers would be set free. Yet his beauteous hostage soon proved a fierce-hearted lioness who could charm the very devil out of hell. And topple the walls of his ow...
The Campbells and Lamonts were enemies sworn For the sake of his twin, Shaw Campbell would storm the gates of Hell. Yet his brother was not in the hands of the devil, but of Merritt Lamont, a female firebrand who would defend her family's honor to...
A female con artist and a handsome drifter become unwilling parents when they're adopted by three desperate orphans....
A Secret Too Terrible To Tell Dulcie Trenton had risen from the ashes of war, determined to build a new life for herself. Yet the price of survival was high, and could cost her the love of Cal Jermain, whose honesty was as raw and as real as his p...
The Way to a Woman's Heart... Isabella McCree wanted to be loved. So she traded her lonely Eastern existence for life in a mountain cabin with her rugged mail-order husband and his brood. But could she ever put her haunting secrets behind her and ...
A WORLD OF DARKNESS AND MYSTERY . . . That was what Olivia St. John discovered when she arrived at Blackthorne to serve as governess. But she was determined to uncover the secrets that haunted the estate of Lord Quenton Stamford, and bring the eni...
A wounded nobleman falls in love with the brave, young woman who rescues him in Ruth Langan's Highland Christmas....
HE WANTED TO PROTECT HER Chance Wilde was always willing to risk whatever it took to get what he wanted - whether it was for business or for pleasure. And his life had mostly been business - until his brothers hired Maggie Fuller to be a cook at the...
From his very first glance at doe-eyed Dr. Erin Ryan, desire gripped millionaire rancher Hazard Wilde. But that didn't mean he'd signed up for family and forever. He believed in land, family legacy. . . and passion. Nothing more. A veterinarian, Erin...
ALLY BRADY NEEDED MONEY FAST And the gorgeous cowboy at the pool table looked as though he could afford to pay some of her grandfather's medical bills, so Ally relieved him of a thousand dollars, never suspecting he was Ace Wilde, CEO of Wilde Mi...
The Sirens of the Sea: Three proper English sisters who, upon the death of their father and brother in a shipwreck, take over the family business -- as privateers in the employ of Charles of England. THE HANDSOME CAPTAIN WAS DUTY BOUND... At t...
One Stolen Kiss... And Bethany Lambert lost her heart to the highwayman known as Lord of the Night. Trying to forget their forbidden love, she allowed another man to court her -- for there was something so strikingly familiar about the Earl of Al...
ALEXANDRA SULLIVAN WANTED TO GO TO BED WITH MORE THAN JUST A GOOD BOOK. Running the Snug Harbor Lodge had fulfilled Alex's life -- until rough-hewn Grant Malone appeared seeking shelter. Though danger surrounded the handsome stranger, Alex couldn'...
DID LIZBETH SULLIVAN HAVE ROGUE HORMONES? Never before had a guest at Stafford Cottage triggered sensual tremors in the reserved innkeeper, but Colin St. James was like an earthquake to her soul. Hurt once by false love, Lizbeth had poured herself...
Celeste Sullivan couldn't believe that old flame Drew Hampton had walked back into her life -- as casually as he'd walked out! They'd once worked side by side for the Sullivan family's hotel chain, till Drew trampled her heart on his way out the door...
Legend has it that the famous Colton family sapphires shine brilliantly on only the women who are meant to be Colton brides.... Meet three powerful and sexy Colton men who face the challenge of finding the right women -- the brides of their hearts! ...
Is He...Or Isn't He? Darcy Lambert, newly emerged from her cocoon of grief, studied the stranger Gryf, and wondered where he truly came from. He was very like Gray Barton, her heart's first love -- and yet he wasn't. For this was the man who had t...
"DO I LOOK LIKE ONE OF YOUR SMOOTH-FACED GOLDEN BOYS? I DON'T THINK SO." Hard-boiled, cynical police detective Thaddeus Law had a mission: nab the sorry son-of-a-gun out to kill famous billionaire Joe Colton. This assignment would have been open and...
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do... A MAN OF HONOR When Micah Lassiter made a promise, he kept it -- no matter what it cost him. But his latest undercover assignment -- protecting a wealthy man's daughter from the crazed killer stalking h...
Dangerous to love... DANGEROUS AND DEPENDABLE After 10 years of globe-trotting, burned-out ex-CIA operative Donovan Lassiter was ready to return home. But Donovan needed solitude to wrestle with his demons. His cabin in the wooded hills of Mary...
A man to depend on... THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME... Rescuing beautiful women in distress is all in a day's work for police captain Christopher Banning. Until the day the ruggedly handsome cop realizes it's Mary Brendan Lassiter, freshman c...
A CHARMING ROGUE From the moment Summer O'Connor laid eyes on him, she knew she was in trouble. Everything about Cameron Lassiter screamed success -- from his perfect suit to his perfect smile. Summer knew all about guys like him. What she didn't ...
On the run from her abusive brother-in-law, a young woman and her nephew find a safe haven with a solitary Montana rancher until the boy's father, bent on vengeance, tracks them to the secluded ranch and threatens their newfound family....
"It wasn't just his skill with a gun that earned Sheriff Gabe Conover a reputation as the toughest lawman in the territory...He'd delivered more outlaws to the courts than any other sheriff in the Dakota Territory. Whenever there was a problem in Mi...
"Yale Conover lived for the thrill of the game. And though he was a man who scorned most of the laws made by men, he never actually considered himself an outlaw. He preferred to think he was a law unto himself." Now his own code of justice had b...
Kitty Conover was in for the surprise of her life... Kitty Conover was a familiar figure in Misery. Dressed in buckskins, with her yellow curls tucked under a wide- brimmed hat, she'd been known to follow a herd of mustangs for weeks. She felt as ...
A Witch, A Warrior And The Wilds Of Scotland...! 'Twas like a quest out of legend, Merrick MacAndrew knew, but he would risk anything to save his dying son-even kidnapping Allegra Drummond, whose mystical healing talents ran apace with her power ...
Born of highland magic, she had witchcraft in her soul. But Grant MacCallum had need of Kylia Drummond's power. How else could he expose the traitor in his clan? Yet journeying with the beauteous sprite summoned an unexpected breed of magic, stir...
Was Gwenellen Drummond a woman or a witch? Friend Or Foe? Arriving home, warrior Andrew Ross discovered his castle ravaged by fire, his father and all who lived within its walls dead. Yet alive amidst the carnage was a woman with the face of an...
SECRETS IN A SMALL TOWN Devil's Cove, Michigan, hadn't been Jason Cooper's home for over ten years. Now the town's former troublemaker turned successful novelist had returned. He never expected to rekindle the flame of his first love...or put her ...
GARDEN OF SECRETS After his wife's mysterious death, Ethan Harrison was a man living under suspicion. With two young sons to shield from gossip and lies, Ethan decided to move to the town of Devil's Cove, where no one knew about his past. But he nev...
SECRETS UNDER THE SUN Eager to spend a sentimental summer on Lake Michigan, Blair Colby traveled to his late aunt's cottage in Devil's Cove, only to find the place ransacked. Blair had no idea why, but he was determined to find out. He soon enlist...
DANGEROUS SECRETS Photojournalist Adam Morgan had traveled to the world's most dangerous hot spots. After being in the wrong place at the wrong time, he'd come to Devil's Cove to heal his battered body and mind. There he found solace along the wat...