Karen Ranney Books in Order

Scarred by war and hiding behind a mask, Alex, Earl of Cardiff, believes he is no longer worthy of the woman who has always loved him. Laura refuses to see him as ruined, and her loyalty becomes his path back to life.

Katherine Sanderson becomes governess to an earl's illegitimate infant and expects only work, not temptation. The arrogant Earl of Moncrief has other plans, and his scandalous proposal threatens both of their hearts.

Twice widowed Judith Cuthbertson is married off to Alisdair MacLeod, the new laird of a once-great Scottish clan. She resists him at every turn until desire makes their arranged union impossible to ignore.

After her husband's death, Kathryn Siddons travels to the Scottish Highlands with her newly married niece. A devastating turn of events brings her close to Hugh MacDonald, and their forbidden attraction changes everything.

Young widow Mary Kate Bennett survives a carriage accident and wakes in the care of the mysterious Earl of Sanderhurst. Rumors, suspicion, and fierce attraction draw them into a romance tangled with the secrets of his past.

Tessa Astley falls for the rakish Duke of Kittridge after a single kiss and thinks marriage will bring her fairy tale to life. Instead she finds a husband who wants an heir, not a soulmate, and sets out to change his heart.

Sebastian, Earl of Langlinais, finally summons the wife he married in childhood and barely knows. Julianna arrives from convent life to find a husband entangled in plots, danger, and a marriage that might yet become real.

Desperate widow Margaret Esterly attends a masked ball planning to sell a scandalous manuscript and save herself from ruin. One impulsive kiss with a stranger pulls her into the orbit of an earl and far deeper danger.

Anne Sinclair has dreamed of the same dark warrior for years and crosses into war-torn England to find him. When she meets Stephen Harrington, the pull between them feels older and stranger than either can explain.

Alec Landers returns to the Highlands as a British colonel and the enemy of the woman he has loved since boyhood. Hiding a dangerous secret identity, he must choose between protecting Leitis MacRae and losing her forever.

Riona McKinsey is trapped in an engagement she cannot explain, even though the man she wants is James MacRae. James knows loving her could ruin them both, but he cannot stay away.

To reclaim his ancestral Highland lands, Alistair MacRae must marry Iseabal, daughter of the ruthless laird who seized them. What begins as a bargain soon becomes a fight for trust, freedom, and love.

Jeanne du Marchand and Douglas MacRae were torn apart when she was pregnant and powerless to fight her father. Ten years later they meet again in Scotland, where passion and bitterness are both still alive.

Brooding Hamish MacRae wants only solitude when healer Mary Gilly arrives at his isolated castle. As rumors gather and hidden danger closes in, her warmth begins to thaw a man determined never to love again.

Impoverished Beatrice Sinclair takes a governess post caring for a frightened young duke and walks straight into a house full of dark secrets. Her strongest temptation is Devlen Gordon, a charming man she is not sure she can trust.

Catherine Dunnan falls in love through letters from the man she believes is away at war. When Moncrief returns as a duke and the real author of those letters, love and betrayal arrive together.

Abandoned by the earl she was meant to marry, Charlotte Haversham turns his crumbling Scottish castle into a girls' school. Five years later a handsome stranger arrives, and his dangerous deception threatens the life she built.

Fearing he will die like his brothers, Grant Roberson rushes to secure an heir by arranging a marriage. But it is Gillian Cameron, his intended bride's companion, who captures his heart as they hunt for a possible murderer.

Marshall Ross, the feared Devil of Ambrose, wants a wife without letting anyone discover his secret. Davina McLaren has nowhere else to go, but their passionate marriage quickly draws an old enemy out of the shadows.

Heiress Louisa escapes cruel society and discovers a hidden cave library, complete with a mysterious man named Douglas. Their growing bond is complicated by one small problem, he is not entirely human.

Robert returns to Scotland to face the loss that drove him away and the estate his mother has nearly destroyed. His quiet new neighbor, painter Margaret, is hiding from her own violent past, until desire pulls them both back into life.

Douglas Eston expects a business deal and instead finds himself facing a marriage bargain. Lady Sarah Baines is furious at being traded by her father, but Douglas may be the one man willing to protect her.

Emma, the beautiful Duchess of Herridge, is known to society as cold and untouchable until Ian McNair kidnaps her from her carefully ordered life. Desire comes quickly, but loving him may cost her everything.

Veronica MacLeod is on the brink of disaster when the mysterious Montgomery Fairfax steps in and offers marriage as rescue from scandal. Their journey to the Highlands opens the door to passion, but also to the ghosts haunting his past.

Seven years after she rejected him, Shona Imrie faces disgrace and poverty while Gordon MacDermond returns from war as a hero. He still wants her, but pride and old mistakes make this second chance a hard one to claim.

After her daughter's death, Jennifer Roberts becomes convinced something far darker is being ignored. With only a skeptical cop and a quirky band of amateur sleuths around her, she starts chasing a murderer no one else wants to see.

Widowed Richard, Duke of Lancaster, escapes with his children to a remote Texas island and meets Maggie, a blind archaeologist rebuilding her life. Their hard-won romance soon collides with danger reaching all the way to Scotland.

Angel Septimus is meant to offer a moment of comfort to a desperate mortal, not fall in love with her. When Julia faces a forced marriage, heaven's rules prove far less simple than desire.

This playful collection tells a string of Victorian stories from the point of view of undergarments. Drawers, corsets, stockings, and shifts all get their say in Ranney's mischievous little romance experiment.

Private investigator Jack Mercer reopens a murder case that leads him back to Hope Smith and a quiet subdivision full of uneasy friendships. As suspicion spreads, Hope has to ask whether one of her own friends could be a killer.

A disgraced Scotsman comes home to his castle expecting only judgment and isolation. Instead he finds himself falling for a sharp-tongued maid whose own hidden past could ruin them both.

Margaret Whitby has spent her life trying to be proper, which makes Douglas Tabarn's reckless wager impossible to ignore. What starts as a challenge quickly turns into a contest of desire.

A Sheltie's view of life, love, and squirrels drives this whimsical collection of short fables. The pieces are brief, funny, and full of canine opinion.

Widowed Virginia Traylor is left nearly penniless unless she can produce an heir, so she turns to the one man she never forgot. Inventor Macrath Sinclair has wanted her for years, and he has no intention of letting her slip away twice.

Once celebrated for her beauty, Catriona Cameron now hides from the world until a supposed footman crashes into her lonely life. His lies, and a madman's revenge, force her to risk loving again.

Widowed Ceana Sinclair Mead escapes to Scotland determined to be more than a decorative widow. One reckless night with American agent Bruce Preston becomes far more dangerous when an old enemy returns.

Insurance adjuster Marcie wakes in a vampire resuscitation center and learns immortality comes with very odd side effects, including a craving for tacos. Witches, vampires, and a startling power make her the center of a supernatural fight.

Ellice Traylor hides a scandalous imagination behind an innocent face and takes matters into her own hands when marriage plans close in. A stowaway journey with Ross Forster leads to desire, compromise, and an unexpectedly lively marriage.

Lord Provost Logan Harrison wants a practical wife, not fiery Mairi Sinclair, who challenges him at every turn. Their clash of wills quickly becomes an attraction neither of them can explain away.

Widowed Glynis MacIain returns from America determined not to make the same mistake twice with Lennox Cameron. But in a Scotland shadowed by the American Civil War, old love and a buried secret refuse to stay quiet.

Marcie Montgomery's powers are growing just as witches, vampires, and old enemies close in. When the man she needs disappears and pregnancy raises the stakes, she has to fight for love and survival at the same time.

Wounded and changed by war, Dalton MacIain wants a quieter life until Minerva Todd bursts in demanding help finding her missing brother. Their search turns into a dangerous partnership neither of them expected to want.

Marcie Montgomery is still trying to make sense of being a vampire, and the universe is not helping. Witches, explosions, a murderous mother, and a very inconvenient attraction turn her new life into comic supernatural chaos.

Rose MacIain invents a false identity to get Duncan MacIain's help, only to find the deception more dangerous than she expected. As they travel together through Scotland, attraction deepens and the truth grows harder to hide.

In this candid nonfiction book, Karen Ranney writes about surviving addiction, grief, and loss while still building a writing life. She mixes memoir with a practical method she believed could help other people change their own lives.

Werewolf Torrance Boyd heads home expecting old clan rules and old arguments, but everything has shifted. A strange lottery, an evil ex, and a childhood friend changed beyond recognition pull her into a deadly supernatural mess.

Lorna Gordon is a maid when one reckless masked-ball encounter links her to Alex Russell, Duke of Kinross, in the most scandalous way possible. When they meet again, desire and danger make hiding impossible.

Martha York finally meets the brilliant duke she has known only through letters and finds him every bit as fascinating as she hoped. But when mistaken identity and duty pull him toward another match, love becomes far more complicated than invention.

Torrance Boyd is now the first female member of the Were Council, which is about as peaceful as it sounds. Between a witch at the vet clinic, a missing ally, and frightening new powers, her life keeps getting stranger.

Texan Connor McCraight inherits a Scottish dukedom he never wanted and plans to sell the estate at once. Elsbeth Carew loves the old house too much to let that happen, even as danger and desire pull them together.

Former Texas Ranger Jack Mercer is not convinced a rich man's mistress is the real killer. Reopening the case brings him back to Hope Smith, old feelings, and the unnerving possibility that the murderer is someone close to home.

Jennifer Roberts survives tragedy only to become convinced that a murderer is loose in her neighborhood. With help from an eccentric amateur murder club, she starts digging into secrets her neighbors would rather keep buried.

Torrance Boyd is juggling vanished lovers, dangerous powers, and furniture that has started talking back. As family secrets and a deadly supernatural threat surface, she has to become tougher than ever to survive.

Spy Adam Drummond enters Marsley House disguised as a majordomo to uncover a dead duke's secrets. Instead he is drawn to grieving duchess Suzanne Whitcomb, whose guarded heart may be the most dangerous mystery of all.

Torrance Boyd is trying to hold on to love, power, and her sanity as vampire trouble and buried family secrets close in. In this chaotic paranormal finale, every choice could cost far more than her heart.

Logan McKnight meets Eleanor Craig when she is trapped in an engagement to a cruel man and a family that keeps her isolated. Their secret meetings in London bring freedom, desire, and the very real risk of scandal.

American heiress Mercy Rutherford flees a controlling fiancé and lands in the crumbling Scottish castle of Lennox Caitheart, an eccentric inventor with impossible charm. Their marriage of convenience begins as a gamble and turns into something worth fighting for.

Jennifer Adaire has loved Gordon McDonnell since childhood, but an earl's daughter and a gardener's son were never meant to have a future. When Gordon returns to Scotland after five years away, old feelings and a dangerous family secret threaten their second chance.

After his wife's death, reporter Derek McPherson learns his ordinary life was built on lies. His grief pushes him into a hidden world of magic, where becoming a wizard may be the only way to set things right.