Books by Karen Ranney and Complete Book Reviews
Karen Ranney, Author . Avon $5.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-81301-8
Through scrupulous historical detail and fluid prose, Ranney brings 18th-century Scotland to life in a vivid story that engages the reader from start to finish. Following One Man's Love, the story of Alec Landers and Leitis McRae, the second...
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Karen Ranney, Author . Avon $5.99 (374p) ISBN 978-0-06-075737-3
This retelling of the Cyrano story begins promisingly with the return of Colonel Moncrief to Scotland from the French and Indian wars to apprise Catherine Dunnan of husband Harry's death in battle. Married only a few months, she'd truly...
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Karen Ranney, Author Avon Books $5.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-380-82105-1
The vibrant protagonists in Karen Ranney's latest Highland Lords romance (after When the Laird Returns) rise above the story's plain prose and formulaic plot line. Scottish country miss and heiress Riona McKinsey has the mind of a modern woman...
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Karen Ranney. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-224246-4
Even readers who believe that “there’s no more stirring sight... than a Scot in a kilt” will find that the meandering second Clan Sinclair historical—which, despite its title, has not the slightest touch of the supernatural—leaves them wanting. In...
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Karen Ranney. Avon, $7.99 mass market (p384) ISBN 978-0-06-233752-8
Ranney concludes her American Civil War trilogy (after Scotsman in My Dreams) with the Scottish branch of the MacIains family inserting itself into the Confederate cause in order to support Rose, who they think is the wife of their American cousin,...
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Karen Ranney. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-246687-7
Ranney’s first Dukes romance sets a riveting fairy tale story in a beautiful castle in the Scottish Highlands in 1861. Lorna Gordon has been working as a maid at Blackhall Castle since the death of her father, a botanist. After seeing Alexander...
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Karen Ranney. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-246689-1
Ranney’s second Duke Trilogy historical (after The Scottish Duke), set in late-19th-century England, unites a reclusive duke and an ingenious inventor. Martha York is upset that Jordan Hamilton, the Duke of Roth, hasn’t answered any of her letters....
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Karen Ranney. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-284108-7
Politics and puppies bring together the convincing couple at the center of the charming conclusion to Ranney’s Victorian-set All for Love trilogy (after To Wed an Heiress). For the past three years, orphaned Scottish heiress Eleanor Craig has lived...
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Karen Ranney. Avon, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-301992-8
Ranney (To Bed the Bride) goes Gothic in the first romance of her Highland Fling trilogy. Lady Jennifer Adaire’s fledgling romance with Gordon McDonnell, the son of her family’s gardener, leads her mother, the Countess of Burfield, to banish Gordon...
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