Books by Karen Ranney
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review 1: Changed my mind. I'm not fond of reading about relationships that include deceit. And thhis is the worst kind of deceit; she wants to get pregnant in order to produce an heir AFTER her husband has died so that she and her in-laws are not left penniless. She picks the man she h...
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review 1: There were several nice things about this historical romance that sets it apart from what people expect from "standard fare" romance. (Sorry if anything seems like a spoiler.)1. The heroine is not only not beautiful (she was) but disfigured from an accident: she has a bad leg th...
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review 1: "He's quite attractive, Mother. You can almost see him as a knight in armor, holding his helm under one arm. He is very commanding in his way, but he doesn't seem that way at fist. I've noticed that he seems to study a situation with some intensity before deciding what to do. ...
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review 1: Morgan MacCraig has come home to Scotland after causing a scandal. The first person he encounters is Jane, a maid in the house, who had spent the night trying to see one of the ghosts that lived at the castle. They were oil and water. Of course they were destined to be together. ...
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review 1: I picked this up on a whim and found an enjoyable read. For all that it is set in the late 1800s amongst nobility it spends no time in the ballrooms of the era. Instead it centers around two people of unusual interests, but great personalities thrown together for reasons that hav...
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review 1: I recently discovered and love Karen Ranney and am plowing through every book she's written, but this was my least favorite of hers so far. Margaret was so prickly and cold, and I didn't find the H/h banter/sparring believable, or even easy to follow. One or both of them would su...
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review 1: I grabbed this book from the dollar store... This was my first read from the author, but I doubt it will be the last as it was a most enjoyable experience! I did suspect the outcome at about the halfway point, but found that I very much wanted to continue reading to discover all ...
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review 1: I loved this book until halfway through when Ross decides that he won't be lead by his desire for a woman and betrayed again....problem with that is when he reviewed his relationship with his first wife he barely even acknowledged she was around....so???? Nothing to really get o...
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review 1: This was a did not finish book for me. The heroine runs a newspaper and spends the whole book fighting for women's rights and clashing with the hero, who is the Lord Provost of Edinburgh.If I wanted to get a history lesson about the poor treatment of women, I'd read a history boo...
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review 1: Shona once fell in love with Gordon over seven years ago, but had to turn down his proposal of marriage, even though she cared for him deeply. Now seven years later, she is a widow and her brother has returned from the war injured, with very little money. She knows she has no cho...