Did Christmas angels ever wear dusters and wide-brimmed hats? In Montana they must, for Quin McAllister seemed just that when he stepped out of the wilderness, right into Cassie Montgomery's life. Yet she knew that the happiness couldn't last, for Quin was a man who needed to roam free... Gambler Quin McAllister was half in love with Cassie long before he ever met her, thanks to her husband's letters. But he was lost when he finally saw her in the flesh. For here was a woman worth risking everything he had on a chance to win all he'd ever desired.
Author
Ruth Ryan Langan (aka Ruth Langan) is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance novels for the Harlequin Historicals line of category romances. Many of her book are set in medieval times, while others are western romances. She has also written some contemporary romances, and often includes elements of suspense in her novels. Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent. Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan. Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan
