Nan Ryan, Author Dell Publishing Company $4.99 (436p) ISBN 978-0-440-21072-6
Disillusioned and restless in the stifling society of late-1800s Washington, D.C., Diane Buchannan has ditched her prestigious job as a senator's aide to head west and join up with her grandfather's ailing Wild-West show. There she meets Ben Star,...
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Nan Ryan, Author Dell Publishing Company $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-20603-3
The Texas desert is an apt setting for Ryan's ( Silken Bondage ) arid 19th-century romance with its cartoon villains and mystical tricks. Amy Sullivan and Luiz Quintano are exploring the delights of first love when their fathers, joint owners of a...
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Nan Ryan, Author HarperTorch $6.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-108515-4
Readers with $6.50 burning holes in their pockets and looking for beach reading might enjoy Ryan's latest western historical romance (after Desert Storm). More discriminating folk, however, may pause and wonder if this sexually graphic tale of an...
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Nan Ryan, Author Mira Books $6.5 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55166-676-1
The bare-bones plot and stock characters in Nan Ryan's overwrought western romance, Naughty Marietta, provide a weak framework for the book's explicit sex scenes and rip-roaring action sequences. Controlling Cole Heflin and aspiring singer ...
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Nan Ryan, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (355p) ISBN 978-1-55611-106-8
Neither the frenzied world of rock 'n' roll nor the outsized Texas mentality are portrayed well enough to lift Ryan's seventh novel a step above pedestrian. C.C. McCarty was a poor boy from West Dallas who became an overnight singing sensation in...
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