Books by Karen Ranney

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To Love a Duchess

Karen Ranney begins her new All for Love series with a dramatic, gothic-style story about a Scottish secret agent and a battered duchess finding love. Former soldier Adam Drummond volunteered to work as an agent for the crown after returning from serving in India.  Tasked with investigating the ...

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The Texan Duke

As an American who loves to travel, I simply adore reading books about out-of-place characters, although most of the ones that come to mind involve a heroine rather than hero. That makes The Texan Duke a refreshing change from all the stories of American heiresses in England. Instead, we have the st ...

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The English Duke

I hesitate to describe Karen Ranney’s latest offering, The English Duke as being part of a series, because really, it’s a standalone novel that doesn’t feature any characters or continue any plotlines from the author’s last book, The Scottish Duke.  The titles are similar, of course (the fo ...

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The Scottish Duke

I have a feeling that people who know history better than I do will take umbrage with this book. It’s one of those that just doesn’t feel completely historically accurate and I kept wondering how much of my “fantasy” brain I should engage. I was charmed by it, especially by the heroine and b ...

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An American in Scotland

I enjoyed the previous two books in Karen Ranney’s MacIain series, so was looking forward to An American in Scotland, which features Duncan MacIain, the steady and dependable owner of the MacIain family’s textile business, and who has appeared as a secondary character in the earlier novels. In t ...

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Scotsman of My Dreams

Karen Ranney’s MacIain series moves away from Scotland for the second book, Scotsman of My Dreams, a well-written and very enjoyable character-driven romance featuring a hedonist who returns from war a very different man to the one who went away and the forthright woman who helps him to regain his ...

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The Witch of Clan Sinclair

Mairi Sinclair, newspaper publisher, meets Lord Provost of Edinburgh Logan Harrison while attempting to crash a lecture at the men-only Edinburgh Press Club. The Press Club is a private institution, and as such denies Mairi entrance. For some reason, she decides that this is Logan’s fault, and pub ...

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The Virgin of Clan Sinclair

This is the third book in Ms Ranney’s Clan Sinclair trilogy of novels set in Victorian Scotland. I haven’t read the previous two books, but this works perfectly well as a standalone; anyone who has read the others will no doubt be pleased to note that the couples from those books appear in secon ...

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The Devil of Clan Sinclair

The Devil of Clan Sinclair is poorly named. The hero is, in fact, a very nice guy. Maybe a little too nice. He's quick to forgive the dishonest and easily manipulated heroine - something I'm not sure I could have done in his place. Virginia Anderson is an American heiress with an amb ...

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A Scottish Love

The beginning of this book is so peculiar, it’s disconcerting. It's 1859 in Inverness and Shona, the widowed Countess of Morton, so penniless she can barely feed herself, is interviewing - just for the hell of it - four stalwart lads she's asked to remove their shirts. I found this odd beyond meas ...