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From New York Times Bestselling Author Ruth Ryan Langan, A Highlander Christmas Novella. Lindsay Douglas routinely scavenges Highland battlefields in search of articles she can barter to feed her impoverished family. On one such foray she comes upon a warrior more dead than alive. Under her tender care Morgan MacLaren not only survives, but loses his heart. Her family rejoices, and despite bitter circumstances, hope for a better future blooms in all their hearts. Without warning, Morgan is summoned home, and the message he leaves behind is partially burned, leaving Lindsay and her family to face a bleak future. To save her family, Lindsay agrees to marry a wealthy man in her village known to be a cruel taskmaster. The ceremony will take place at a midnight service on the eve of Christmas. Can a noble knight, now laird of the land, overcome impossible odds to write their happy ending?
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
