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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1987
  • Latest Book:
    April 2003
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About the Author

Ruth Leslie Goodman Roberson, well-known as Meagan McKinney gave up a thriving career as a biologist to become a full-time romance writer. She is author of over 20 critically acclaimed novels. Divorced, she lives with her two children in in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Full Series List in Order

Matched in Montana

1 - The Cowboy Meets His Match (Jun-2000)
2 - The Lawman Meets His Bride (Oct-2000)
3 - The M.D. Courts His Nurse (Mar-2001)
4 - Plain Jane & the Hotshot (Feb-2003)
5 - The Cowboy Claims His Lady (Mar-2003)
6 - Billionaire Boss (Apr-2003)

Van Alen Sisters

1 - Lions and Lace (May-1992)
2 - Fair Is the Rose (Apr-1993)

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • PRISONER OF PASSION Penniless and alone, Lady Brienne had come to Osterley Park, back to the house of the father she despised. She found a stranger waiting -- an arrogant American whose sensuality set her heart beating wildly, rendering her powerles...



  • A PROUD, BEAUTIFUL HEIRESS Torn from her ancestral home by her cousin's treachery, the bewitching Scottish beauty Kayleigh Kerr found a new life in New Orleans as the notoriously proud pickpocket whom every man wanted but no man could touch. Keepi...



  • DEVIL'S KISS It was five years since Elizabeth Alcester had laid eyes on her former stable boy Ivan Tramore . . . five years since her world had collapsed in devastating ruin around her. Now, penniless and desperate, she finds herself at the mercy o...



  • FROM THE SAFE HAVEN OF A LONDON ORPHANAGE TO THE SAVAGE SEAS OF LOVE... A safe, respectable orphanage was the only home Aurora Dayne had ever known. Teaching there would mean security. But when the mysterious letter arrived, offering her a positio...



  • SHE PLAYED BY HIGH SOCIETY'S RULES The gaslight's glow lit Alana Van Alen's golden hair. Born to luxury, she belonged with the Astors and the Vanderbilts at cotillions and soirees. But she shivered with fear and something more was she faced the hand...



  • THE BEAUTY BEHIND THE BLACK VEIL Christal Van Alen was wanted from Maine to Missouri. Swathed in widow's weeds, she was running to Wyoming Territory ... when the outlaw Macaulay Cain captured their stagecoach and the aristocratic new Yorker was pris...



  • In the wilderness of her soul, Ravenna knew she could marry only for love. Yet the violet-eyed granddaughter of a witch was in mysterious thrall to the master of County Lir. He was Niall, Lord Trevallyan, who wore a serpent ring, twin to her own, an ...



  • A spellbinding novel of contemporary romantic suspense--the unforgettable story of a woman caught between love and vengeance... Manhattan attorney Claire Green is haunted by the brutal murder of her twin sister Zoe in a dangerous revenge scheme th...



  • From bestselling author Meagan McKinney comes a classic tale of romance and suspense, of dark shadows and menacing secrets, and of a bold young woman who must battle not only for her heart and mind, but her very soul... Left penniless after her fa...






  • Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...



  • Lavinia Murphy fled a brutal St. Louis orphanage with four younger "siblings" and learned a spiritualist's ways from the carnies and gypsies she met on the road to New York City. Transformed as the mysterious Countess Lovaenya, she has built a safe h...



  • Boston veterinarian Alyn Blum-Jones is shocked to learn of the disappearance of her heiress aunt Jacqueline Blum, just one day before they were supposed to meet for the first time. Curious about the aunt she has read so much about in the tabloids, Al...



  • THE LOVER SHE COULDN'T FORGET Honor Shaw had never forgotten the passionate, sultry summer she'd spent in the arms of golden boy Mark Griffin. But then their time together ended, and maybe it was for the best. She was a simple country girl. He was...



  • THE BACHELOR... The way Rachel Howland saw it, Noel Magnus, wealthy publisher and New York's most eligible bachelor, had been seduced--by a legendary black opal and the lure of adventure. To conquer the Arctic, Magnus had traded Manhattan's elegan...



  • WILD, WILD WESTERNER Ride horseback through dangerous Montana high country with infuriating AJ Clayburn as her guide? Fine--if that would help reporter Jacquelyn Rousseau get her story and prove to the rugged rodeo champ she was anything but an up...



  • ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS? Dark, dangerous and nursing a bullet wound, Quinn Loudon didn't look like an assistant U.S. attorney -- nor did he act like one. In fact, he'd kidnapped Constance Adams at gunpoint. Yet instead of fearing for her life, she fo...



  • HEART OF THE BAYOU Stella St. Valliers is on a treasure hunt. Cane Town, Louisiana lore has it that Shadow Oaks plantation, where she lives with her spinster aunt, hides a valuable secret within its walls. Stella is determined to discover the rumo...



  • IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE...WHO WANTS TO BE A HUSBAND? Whoa! New nurse Rebecca O'Reilly had Dr. John Saville's thoughts straying into uncharted territory. This female wildcat had obviously been wounded by romance -- she protected her frayed h...



  • THE THIEF The newspapers call her Lady Moonlight. No one in high society would dream that the elusive jewel thief is one of their own--demure New Orleans debutante Mystere Rillieux, a woman who hides her past as well as her seductive womanly charms ...






  • WHERE THERE'S SMOKE... Roughing it in the Montana wilderness with an all-female mountain group seemed the perfect way to heal music teacher Joanna Lofton's broken heart. But the camp's matchmaker had other ideas. And so did elite smoke jumper Nick...



  • HE WAS AN ARROGANT AND UNTAMED COWBOY With his take-charge attitude and penetrating gaze, cowboy Bruce Everett spelled "Danger" from his Stetson to his boots, and Melynda Clay had sworn off men for good. She'd come to his dude ranch for a little res...



  • SEDUCED -- BY HER BOSS? Seth Morgan was sophisticated, sensual, sinfully wealthy -- and completely out of Kirsten Meadows's reach. Although the powerful playboy tycoon took her breath away, Kirsten didn't mix business with pleasure, so Seth was ...


Award-Winning Books by Meagan McKinney

Moonlight Becomes Her
2001 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- American Historical Romance
Till Dawn Tames the Night
1991 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Romantic Adventure
When Angels Fall
1990 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Victorian Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Meagan McKinney has published 22 books.

Meagan McKinney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Billionaire Boss, was published in April 2003.

The first book by Meagan McKinney, No Choice But Surrender, was published in October 1987.

Yes. Meagan McKinney has 2 series.