Ruth Ryan Langan is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance

Historical romance

Historical romance is a subgenre of two literary genres, the romance novel and the historical novel.-Definition:Historical romance is set before World War II...

 novels for the Harlequin Historicals

Harlequin Enterprises Ltd

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 line of category romances. Many of her book are set in medieval times, while others are western romances. She has also written some contemporary romances, and often includes elements of suspense in her novels.

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

Romance Writers of America

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. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan

Michigan

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.

The Jewels of Texas

• Diamond (1996)
• Pearl (1996)
• Jade (1997)
• Ruby (1997)
• Malachite (1998)

Novels

• Just Like Yesterday (1981)
• Hidden Isle (1983)
• No Gentle Love (1984)
• Beloved Gambler (1984)
• Eden Temptation (1984)
• Nevada Nights (1985)
• To Love a Dreamer (1985)
• Star-crossed (1985)
• This Time Forever (1985)
• Family Secrets (1985)
• September's Dream (1985)
• Mysteries of the Heart (1986)
• Whims of Fate (1986)
• The Proper Miss Porter (1987)
• Destiny's Daughter (1987)
• Passage West (1988)
• Mistress of the Seas (1988)
• The Heart's Secrets (1989)
• Highland Barbarian (1990)
• Captive of Desire (1990)
• Highland Heather (1991)
• Highland Fire (1991)
• Highland Heart (1992)
• Texas Healer (1992)
• Christmas Miracle (1992)
• Addy Starr (1992)
• Texas Hero (1993)
• Deception (1993)
• All That Glitters (1994)
• The Highlander (1994)
• Christmas Miracles (1994)
• Highland Heaven (1995)
• Dulcie's Gift (1996)
• The Courtship of Izzy McCree (1998)
• Blackthorne (1998)
• Briana (1999)
• Conor (1999)
• Texas Heart (1999)
• Ace (2000)
• Chance (2000)
• Hazard (2000)
• By Honour Bound (2001)
• The Sea Nymph (2001)
• The Sea Sprite (2001)
• Awakening Alex (2001)
• Loving Lizbeth (2001)
• Seducing Celeste (2001)
• Rory (2002)
• Banning's Woman (2002)
• His Father's Son (2002)
• Return of the Prodigal Son (2002)
• Badlands Law (2002)
• Badlands Legend (2002)
• Badlands Heart (2002)
• The Knight and the Seer (2003)
• Highland Sword (2003)
• The Betrayal (2003)
• Cover-Up (2004)
• Retribution (2004)
• Vendetta (2004)
• Wanted (2004)
• Paradise Falls (2004)
• Ashes of Dreams (2005)
• Duchess of Fifth Avenue (2006)
• Heart's Delight (2007)

Omnibus

• Historical Christmas Stories 1990 (1990) (with Patricia Potter
  Patricia Potter
  Patricia Caroline Potter is an English actress. Best known for her role as Diane Lloyd in the popular BBC medical drama Holby City, Potter has acted on stage, television, and in film. She married her partner, doctor Jim Down, in May 2007.- Personal life :Potter grew up on a farm in Kent with her...
  
   and Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...
  
  )
• Outlaw Brides (1996) (with Elaine Coffman
  Elaine Coffman
  Barbara Elaine Gunter Coffman is an American writer of both historical romance and suspense, writing as Elaine Coffman.-Biography:...
  
   and Mary McBride)
• Holiday Inn (1996) (with Debra Dier, Linda Jones
  Linda Jones
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   and Linda Madl)
• Ransomed Brides (1998) (with Patricia Potter)
• Once Upon A Castle (1998) (with Jill Gregory, Nora Roberts and Marianne Willman)
• One Christmas Night (1999) (with Jacqueline Navin and Lyn Stone)
• Once Upon A Dream (2000) (with Jill Gregory, Nora Roberts and Marianne Willman)
• Once Upon A Rose (2001) (with Jill Gregory, Nora Roberts and Marianne Willman)
• Wild West Brides: Flanna and the Lawman/This Side of Heaven/Second Chance Bride (2002) (with Carolyn Davidson
  Carolyn Davidson
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   and Cathy Maxwell)
• Once Upon a Kiss (2002) (with Jill Gregory, Nora Roberts and Marianne Willman)
• Safe Haven for Christmas (2002) (with Paula Marshall
  Paula Marshall
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   and Deborah Simmons)
• Once Upon a Midnight (2003) (with Jill Gregory, Nora Roberts and Marianne Willman)
• The Coltons: Brides of Privilege (2004) (with Kasey Michaels and Carolyn Zane
  Carolyn Zane
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  )
• Cover-up / Shadows of the Past (2004) (with Frances Housden)
• Her Passionate Protector / Wanted (2004) (with Laurey Bright)
• Moon Shadows (2004) (with Jill Gregory, Nora Roberts and Marianne Willman)
• Retribution / Makeover Mission (2004) (with Mary Buckham)
• Bump in the Night (2006) (with Mary Blayney, Mary Kay McComas and J D Robb)
• Dead of Night (2007) (with Mary Blayney, Mary Kay McComas and J D Robb)

External links

• Official website