Nan Ryan
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Nancy Henderson is the middle daughter of a Texas rancher and postmaster. She's been married for many years to Joe Ryan, a television executive. Hisoccupation has taken them from border to border and coast to coast. Fortunately, writing is something that can be done anywhere - and Nan shouldknow. The Ryans have lived in Washington, California, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and their own home state of Texas. Nan says it was fun to move around the country and honestly believes that it has helped her writing. The library and the Internet offer a great deal of information on any given place, but there is nothing quite likeactually living in a locale where a book is set. She began her writing career in 1981. She flirted with writing mysteries, but never finished any. Then, as fate would have it, she saw an article in Newsweek magazine entitled "From Bedroom to Boardroom." It was an interesting story on the women who were writing romance novels. Nan was intrigued. She had never read a romance. She bought a couple, read them, and knew she'd found her calling. She sat down at the Smith Corona typewriter and began her own romance. The first one never left her house. It is burieddeep in a trunk and Nan says it will never be shown to anyone. Her second book sold and she's been writing since. Twenty-two romance novels later, shestill enjoys writing and realizes she's been blessed to have found what she loves to do. The winner of numerous awards, Nan Ryan says one of the nicest things ever written about her was printed in the St. Petersburg Times. Correspondent AnnV. Hull wrote: "Romance novelist Nan Ryan could step right into the pages of one of her paperbacks. Tall and slender, with smokey eyes and pearly skin,Nan Ryan looks like movie star Jessica Lange's older sister. Ryan writes the most imaginative and bold love scenes, some of which would surely shock herformer teachers at Abilene Christian University."
Books
Duchess for a Day
They were well-matched opponents in the game of seduction Tempted by the idea of living a life she could only imagine, Claire Orwell decides to impersonate the flamboyant Duchess of Beaumont when she's mistaken for the merry widow. Of course, there's only one way for the innocent young woman to be convincing–she'll need to seduce the most sought-after man in Saratoga Springs…by playing hard to get. Wealthy, eligible and wildly attractive, Hank Cassidy has never found himself so mesmerized by a woman. After one look, he knows he must make her his. But the duchess is not an easy conquest, and he soon finds himself caught in a seductive game of cat and mouse. Until passion gives way to true love–and they discover there's far more to lose than either had bargained for…
The Sheriff
Kate Quinn arrives in Fortune, California, with little but a deed to a run-down Victorian mansion and a claim to an abandoned gold mine. But a beautiful woman on her own in a town of lonely, lusty miners also brings trouble. Sheriff Travis McLoud has enough to handle in Fortune where fast fists and faster guns kept peace, without the stubbornly independent Miss. Kate to look after. But when a dapper, sweet-talking stranger shows a suspicious interest in Kate, Travis feels it's his duty to protect her. With her days spent searching for the glimmer of gold, Kate has no interest in the sheriff and his unnecessary warnings. But she can't prevent him from invading her dreams and showing her that a rough-around-the-edges lawman just might have more to offer than a well-heeled gentleman-including a heart of gold.
Wanting you
Heiress... or Impostor? She has no memory of her life before being captured by the Apache and becoming ward of a convent. Then suddenly she is given a name, a past -- and most of all, a future beyond her wildest dreams. Anna Regent Wright, the long-lost Regent heiress, has come home at last. Adversaries... or Destined Lovers? There is no doubt in Brit Caruth's mind that Anna is an inpostor. But as the summer heat grows, so does an unsettling heat of another kind. The beautiful stranger has a hold on his body but he'll be damned if he'll let her get her hands on an inheritance that the Regents have long said was his...
The last dance
"The hanging death of a nondescript old man in a shabby little apartment in a meager section of the 87th Precinct was nothing much in this city, especially to detectives Carella and Meyer. But everyone has a story, and this old man's story stood to make some people a lot of money. His story takes Carella, Meyer, Brown, and Weeks on a search through Isola's seedy strip clubs and to the bright lights of the theater district. There they discover an upcoming musical with ties to a mysterious drug and a killer who stays until the last dance."--BOOK JACKET.
The Princess Goes West
THE PRINCESS Marlena's tiny kingdom is flat broke, forcing the spitfire princess to tour America with a smile on her face and a royal tin cup in her hand. THE QUEEN Americans adore the the stunning beauty and the appreciation is stoking her country's coffers. But when Marlena takes ill, a quick switch by a fast-thinking royal aide lands Roberta Ann, Queen of the Silver Dollar Saloon, in the role of a lifetime. THE LONG, TALL TEXAN Meanwhile, Marlena is being hauled cussing and spitting to her new kingdom - the El Paso Country jail - by tough-as-nails Texas Ranger Virgil Black. He knows the sassy, ginger-haired saloon girl is a thief. But what Virgil doesn't know is Marlena and he are about to discover that even pampered princesses are first, last, and always.
Because You're Mine
Because the Dream. . . Young, high-spirited Lady Madeline Matthews is expected to wed an aging, lecherous lord. But she would rather shame herself in the eyes of society than sacrifice her freedom, and resolves to render herself unmarriageable by indulging in a torrid affair with Britain's most acclaimed actor and notorious womanizer, Logan Scott. Because the Heart. . . He is a legend in the footlights and in the bedchamber. But when the curtain falls, Logan is an intensely private, guarded man still tormented by past betrayals that cut deep into his pride and his heart. Now a forward little minx who seems completely out of place in the bright, sophisticated world of the London stage is disrupting his orderly existence with her constant presence, her unspoiled beauty and vibrant charm. And what begins with an onstage kiss threatens to blossom into something more rapturous and real. But first Logan and Madeline both must be brave enough to drop the masks they hide behind. . . and reveal their true selves in the golden glorious light of love.
Chieftain
Her innocent beauty conquered his iron reserve . . . The Chieftain Proud but with a heavy heart, Shanaco fulfills his grandfather's dying wish by leading the last of their Comanche tribe to the safety of the reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He vows to stay only long enough to ensure the fair treatment of his people. Until . . . he sees a beautiful, flame-haired woman who instantly touches his heart. The Teacher Defiant and headstrong, Maggie Bankhead has left the security of her Virginia home for the adventure of the Western frontier. Teaching English on the reservation proves more rewarding than anything she's ever done and she vows to stay at Fort Sill forever. Until . . . she meets the handsome, bronze-skinned warrior with the striking silver eyes that look right into her lonely soul. Brought together in a dangerous land where there are no rules, Shanaco and Maggie will discover a love powerful enough to forge a destiny of their own . . .
A Lifetime of Heaven
THE SAINT She was a spirited St. Louis do-gooder who'd traveled to the teeming shores of San Francisco's waterfront to find her missing brother... and to wage an all-out war on sin and corruption. ...AND THE SINNER He was a silver-eyed scoundrel and owner of the Barbary Coast's most scandalous den of sin... the handsomest, most unrepentant rogue ever to lead a woman into forbidden temptation. They met beneath a blazing noonday sun--a man and a woman from two far-flung worlds fated to come together... destined to meet in an explosion of passion that would shatter all convention and leave Kay Montgomery and Nick McCabe changed forever. Two unlikely lovers caught between seduction and salvation, their shameless desires would sweep them from the midnight alleys of Chinatown to the glitter and grandeur of Nob Hill. And as Kay vowed never to love this man she could neither reform nor resist, Nick McCabe risked hellfire and damnation for the sweet promise of forever in the arms of the right woman.
The Legend of Love
Under a cruel desert sun...a relentless passion On the searing sands of New Mexico's wild, unforgiving territory, they met again. Once before, they had faced certain death together. Then, with reckless trust, she'd given herself to a final moment of happiness in the arms of a tender stranger. But fate had spared - and parted - them, sending her east to a new life in New York...driving him west to the frontier. He'd never forget the night he'd spent with the flame-haired, silken-skinned temptress. And now, as he guided the exquisite Elizabeth Curtin and her party through the remoreless desert in search of her missing husband and a legendary treasure, she was at his mercy, no longer a mere memory but a willful prize he would risk his life to win even as he swore he would never love her...
Sun God
HER BEAUTY HAD SPILLED BLOOD ON TEXAS SOIL... In a blaze of glory, ravishing young Amy Sullivan took him as her lover. In an agony of torment, she drove him away to save his life. She had tried to forget him by marrying another man. But now, ten years later, he had returned, a fierce stranger determined to make her his slave. HIS PRIDE DEMANDED SATISFACTION -- IN FLESH... To his enemies he was El Capstan Luiz Quintano. The son of a Spanish grandee and an Aztec princess, Tonatiuh was now a military commander. He had learned to guard his heart even as he gave his body with a passion born of vengeance and hate. He thought he could destroy her. But the love she gave was real, a maelstrom of fury, remorse, and desire that would engulf them both in its tidal depths....
Outlaw's Kiss
Even a man as tough as Cordell Rogers can't stop his daredevil daughter Mollie from cutting her hair and riding with the Renegades. A wild, untamed spirit, she is a natural-born outlaw. Hiding out in a tiny Anzona town, Mollie unstraps her gunbelt, puts on petticoats, and learns to be a lady. But when rugged, blue-eyed Lieutenant Lew Hatton rides into town, the wanton desire that consumes her is as bold and thrilling as any bank heist. And just as dangerous."The undisputed queen of historical romance writers." "--Wichita Falls Times Record News
Savage Heat
Ever since the sweltering summer day when Zoe Hawkins pinned on her father's tin star, she'd sworn to uphold the law in rough-and-ready Gracemont, Oklahoma. But how could the lovely sheriff maintain order when she couldn't even subdue her own wayward feelings for the mighty Kiowa chief, White Shadow? Every time he showed up at the jail to bail out his wild young braves, Zoe forgot the oh-so-correct colonel she was supposed to marry, and longed to surrender to forbidden desire. .