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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1987
  • Latest Book:
    April 2015
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Book List in Order: 30 titles



  • She was branded by passion and betrayed by the only man she dared to love BETRAYED By the lecherous Texan who promised a marriage in name only, but wanted--and intended--to have much, much more.... BETRAYED By the lean, black-haired cowboy wh...



  • A CRUEL WORLD. A TENDER LOVE. As untamed as her beloved Texas plains, headstrong Suzette Foxworth is devastated when marauding Indians murder her fiance, but finds solace and safety as the wife of rich and powerful rancher, Austin Brand. Defyin...



  • MILE-HIGH MAGIC Five years ago Kay Clark and Sullivan Ward were Denver's hottest radio duo -- both on and off the air. But when Kay left the city -- and Sullivan -- to work in Los Angeles, their untried romance fell apart. Then Kay returned to D...



  • A SACRET TRUST Exquisite Natalie Vallance might have perished in the snow. The Indians -- amazed at her fragile form, her brilliant red hair -- found her, called her Fire-in-the-Snow, and made her mistress of Cloudcastle, a ranch high in the majesti...



  • Good fortune flees Sylvain Fairmont's early life. Blackmail forces her family to sell their Louisiana plantation, Riverbend, and its rumored pirate's buried gold. Somewhat older, Sylvain is engaged to aristocratic, handsome Randolph Baxter, who has a...



  • Stardust tells a story as big and ambitious a Texas itself...There are high stakes and high money, reckless ambition and reckless love, with an ending you won't forget....



  • SHE WAS THE GENERAL'S GOLDEN-HAIRED DAUGHTER. Recklessly she danced the night away. Newly arrived at the Denver cavalry post, she was the darling of the regiment... until a shadow fell across her path -- a raven-haired man who made her blood run hot...



  • AN INNOCENT, FIERY-SPIRITED BEAUTY. Sassy and unmannered, Nevada Marie Hamilton was penniless and alone. She'd come to the luxurious riverboat to earn her way as a singer. But then fate intervened when in one wild act of passion a devil named Johnny...



  • HER BEAUTY HAD SPILLED BLOOD ON TEXAS SOIL... In a blaze of glory, ravishing young Amy Sullivan took him as her lover. In an agony of torment, she drove him away to save his life. She had tried to forget him by marrying another man. But now, ten y...






  • Under a cruel desert sun...a relentless passion On the searing sands of New Mexico's wild, unforgiving territory, they met again. Once before they had faced certain death together. Then, with reckless trust, she'd given herself to a final moment o...



  • BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Restless Diane Buchannan left a glamorous life in the East to salvage her grandparents' faltering Wild West Show. Her bareback-riding feats drew huge crowds in Denver, but Diane's was not the only new act. The "Redman of the R...



  • THE SAINT She was a spirited St. Louis do-gooder who'd traveled to the teeming shores of San Francisco's waterfront to find her missing brother... and to wage an all-out war on sin and corruption. ...AND THE SINNER He was a silver-eyed scoundrel...



  • HER CHALLENGE The war had robbed Helen Burke Courtney of her money and her husband. All she had left was her coastal Alabama farm, a broken-down plow horse, a cat, and her pride, but she meant to fight to hold on to them all against her creditors......



  • STOLEN LAND, CAPTURED HEART Golden-haired Sabella Rios knew that she was the rightful owner of the Lindo Vista ranch in the lush cattle country of Southern California. But her legacy had been stolen by the father of handsome Burt Burnett, who now ...



  • FROM LOVE TO HATE She was a blue blood. His ran dirt poor and red. That didn't matter to them. But it did to those whose devious trap destroyed their young love. FROM INNOCENCE TO ECSTASY As the Civil War raged, a different kind of war exploded ...



  • HE MADE HER HIS PRISONER... Ravishing, impulsive, and far too wealthy and independent for any gentleman to claim, Temple Longworth travels to the Arabian desert seeking adventure. And she finds it when she is captured by bandits and imprisoned in th...



  • A woman with a gun. Even a man as tough as Cordell Rogers couldn't stop his daredevil daughter Mollie from cutting her hair and riding with the Renegades. A wild, untamed spirit, she was a natural born outlaw. A man with a mission. Lieutenan...



  • THE PRINCESS Marlena's tiny kingdom is flat broke, forcing the spitfire princess to tour America with a smile on her face and a royal tin cup in her hand. THE QUEEN Americans adore the the stunning beauty and the appreciation is stoking h...



  • Heiress... or Impostor? She has no memory of her life before being captured by the Apache and becoming ward of a convent. Then suddenly she is given a name, a past -- and most of all, a future beyond her wildest dreams. Anna Regent Wright, the long-l...






  • SHE WAS A PROPER LADY As the mighty ocean liner sank to its watery grave, two strangers boldly savored their final moments by making passionate love. Matching the raging hurricane outside with her own white-hot abandon, Countess Madeleine Cavendis...



  • Ellen Cornelius knows exactly what Mister Corey is: an unscrupulous swindler...a man without morals who will fleece her foolish old aunt out of her fortune. But as the group travels west in search of the fountain of youth, Ellen is both repelled and ...



  • Theirs was a passion born of scandal The boy who left to fight for the Confederate army 20 years ago had been a trusting fool. He had trusted the girl who promised to wait for him. He had trusted the friend who betrayed him. Now he has come home t...



  • Marietta Stone had big dreams -- to sing opera, to be famous, to see the world. And if her rich gentleman benefactor was a tad overprotective, well, it was a small price to pay. She had a glorious future ahead. But it did not include being kidnapp...



  • Lucy Hart is setting out on the first adventure of her life. On the verge of turning thirty, the overly responsible Postmistress of Colonias, New York is planning to meet a man in Atlantic City. Only known to her from their three year correspondence...



  • THE CHIEFTAIN Proud but with a heavy heart, Shanaco fulfills his grandfather's dying wish by leading the last of their Comanche tribe to the safety of the reservation at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He vows to stay only long enough to ensure the fair treatm...



  • They were well-matched opponents in the game of seduction Tempted by the idea of living a life she could only imagine, Claire Orwell decides to impersonate the flamboyant Duchess of Beaumont when she's mistaken for the merry widow. Of course, ther...



  • Kate Quinn arrives in Fortune, California, with little but a deed to a run-down Victorian mansion and a claim to an abandoned gold mine. But a beautiful woman on her own in a town of lonely, lusty miners also brings trouble. Sheriff Travis McLoud...



  • Susanna LeGrande lost her fiance, her brother and her beloved home to the Union army. But her grief only strengthened her resolve to spy for the Confederacy. The once-pampered Southern belle charmed her way through Washington society, falling brazenl...



  • A Southern debutante falls in love with a headstrong gambler In the unforgiving heat of the Deep South, the cotton barons of Mississippi have created an idyllic playground for their wives and daughters -- a playground that Kathleen Beauregard is d...






  • “Sexy, glitzy, riveting…will keep you up all night turning pages.” -- RAVE REVIEWS C.C. McCarthy had a gift. His beautiful singing voice captivated the women who heard it, including Valentina Trent, owner of Bluebonnet Records. But when C.C. t...


Award-Winning Books by Nan Ryan

Savage Heat
1989 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Indian Historical Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Nan Ryan has published 30 books.

Nan Ryan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, C.C.'s Daughter, was published in April 2015.

The first book by Nan Ryan, Desert Storm, was published in May 1987.

No. Nan Ryan does not write books in series.