Biography

Karen Ranney is the daughter of an Air Force officer and lived in places around the world, including Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...

 and Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. She began writing when she was five. In first grade, she wrote a short story called "The Maple Leaf," which was chosen to be read over the school intercom.

After writing her first novel, Above All Others, Ranney found an agent. While her agent was trying to find a publisher willing to purchase the novel, Ranney continued writing, finishing Tapestry and beginning to write a third novel, A Promise of Love. Approximately three years after she had begun writing the first novel, Kensington

Kensington Books

Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American book publisher.- Overview :Kensington was founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius, formerly of Lancer Books. Steven Zacharius became president and CEO in 2005. Vice president Michael Rosamilia has been the CFO since 1989. Laurie Parkin is the vice president...

 agreed to purchase both of Ranney's completed works as well as the novel in progress.

Most of Ranney's novels are set in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 and feature "believable characters, careful plotting, and simmering sexual tension." She has been nominated nine times for a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award and won a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 2002 for British-set Historical Romance .

Ranney has also been on the USA Today Bestseller List as well as the New York Times Bestseller List.

Ranney lives in Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

.

Highland Lords Series

1. One Man's Love (2001)
2. When the Laird Returns (2002)
3. The Irresistible MacRae (2002)
4. To Love a Scottish Lord (2003)
5. So in Love (2004)

Novels

• Tapestry (1995)
• Above All Others (1996)
• A Promise of Love (1997)
• My Wicked Fantasy (1998)
• Heaven Forbids (1998)
• Upon a Wicked Time (1998)
• After the Kiss (2000)
• Till Next We Meet (2005)
• Autumn in Scotland (2006)
• An Unlikely Governess (2006)
• The Scottish Companion (2007)
• The Devil Wears Tartan (2008)
• A Scotsman in Love (2009)
• Sold to a Laird (2009)
• A Highland Duchess (2010)
• A Borrowed Scot (2011)

Omnibus

• Angel Love (1996) (with Janice Bennett, Mallory Burgess, Elizabeth Graham
  Elizabeth Graham
  Elizabeth Graham may refer to:*Elizabeth Jennings Graham, black woman who insisted on being admitted to a streetcar in 1854*Elizabeth Graham , senior lecturer in Mesoamerican archaeology at University College London...
  
  , Constance Laux
  Constance Laux
  Constance Laux is an American writer of romance novels as her real name and her the pen names: Connie Deka and Connie Lane.-Biography:...
  
  , Patricia McAllister, Doreen Owens Malek and John Scognamiglio)
• After Midnight (1998) (with Colleen Faulkner
  Colleen Faulkner
  Colleen Faulkner is an American author of romance novels. In 1999 she was presented with the "Diamond Award" for literary excellence in the state of Delaware.-Bibliography:...
  
  , Carol Finch)
• Scottish Brides (1999) (with Christina Dodd
  Christina Dodd
  Christina Dodd is a best-selling American author ofromance novels.-Biography:Dodd is the youngest of three daughters whose father died before she was born. Although her mother had been a housewife with few job skills, after Dodd's birth she found a job and worked diligently to support her children...
  
  , Stephanie Laurens
  Stephanie Laurens
  Stephanie Laurens is a best-selling Australian author of romance novels.-Biography:Stephanie Laurens was born in Sri Lanka, which was at the time the British colony of Ceylon. When she was 5, her family moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she was raised. After continuing through school and...
  
  , Julia Quinn
  Julia Quinn
  Julia Quinn is the pseudonym used by Julie Pottinger , a best-selling American historical romance author, who says she chose her pseudonym so her Regency romances would be on bookshelves next to those of the successful romance writer Amanda Quick...
  
  )

External links

• Karen Ranney Official Website