CON ARTIST OR LADY? Shane Driscoll was in desperate need of a woman —- though not for the obvious reasons. The dashing lord was actually quite the ladies' man, but when capricious King Charles decided to marry him off, Shane came up with his own choice: the enchanting Lady Claire. Claire had certainly picked the wrong sheep to fleece this time! Caught red-handed, she had no option but to play her part in the nobleman's bizarre scheme. Yet acting her way through the opulent charade was surprisingly easy compared to hiding her heart from the irresistible Shane.
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
