****From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan ... A Historical Romance Classic.**** A blood feud. Blazing hatred. Love denied. As the last survivor of her clan, Alana O'Donnell is targeted for death by Sloan Townsend, son of an aristocratic English mother and raised in the Court of Charles I after his Irish father was murdered at the hands of the hated Curran O'Donnell. Sloan returns to the land of his birth to avenge his father's death. Instead, he finds himself bewitched by the beautiful Alana. To save her inheritance, she is forced to marry the hated son of her enemy, even though she vows to make his life a living hell. These two proud, strong-willed warriors must join forces if they are to survive betrayal and a bloody war. By doing so, they uncover a blazing passion. But can their forbidden love survive the pain of their past?
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
