^ 'Romantic Times 2002 Career Achievement Award winners'.

Scottish Brides (1999) (with Christina Dodd, Stephanie Laurens, Julia Quinn).

After Midnight (1998) (with Colleen Faulkner, Carol Finch).

Angel Love (1996) (with Janice Bennett, Mallory Burgess, Elizabeth Graham, Constance Laux, Patricia McAllister, Doreen Owens Malek and John Scognamiglio).

To Bed the Bride (awaiting publication).

Her death was announced by her publisher, Avon Books. On June 15, 2020, it was announced that Ranney had died. Ranney's books have been on the USA Today Bestseller List as well as the New York Times Bestseller List. In 2014 Ranney began writing the paranormal romance series The Montgomery Chronicles, which center on a newly and unwillingly turned female vampire, and in 2016 began writing a spinoff series, The Furry Chronicles. Most of Ranney's novels are set in Scotland and feature 'believable characters, careful plotting, and simmering sexual tension.' She was nominated nine times for a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award and won a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award in 2002 for British-set Historical Romance. Approximately three years after she had begun writing the first novel, Kensington agreed to purchase both of Ranney's completed works as well as the novel in progress. While her agent was trying to find a publisher willing to purchase the novel, Ranney continued writing, finishing Tapestry and beginning to write a third novel, A Promise of Love. Īfter writing her first novel, Above All Others, Ranney found an agent. In first grade, she wrote a short story called 'The Maple Leaf,' which was chosen to be read over the school intercom.

Ranney (pronounced Rain-ey) was the daughter of an Air Force officer and lived in places around the world, including Naples and Paris. Summoned to join him, the native bride comes face-to-face with a man so virile, so powerful, she trembles in his presence.Karen Ranney (February 5, 1963 – June 15, 2020) was an American author of historical and paranormal romance novels. Convent-bred Julianna had spent her days learning the wifely arts, and her nights longing for the man she had wed so long ago. He had not counted on being enchanted by her beauty, and soon wants her not only by his side, but in his bed. Summoned to join him, the native bride comes face-to-face with a man so virile, so powerful, she trembles in his presence.Ensnared in villianous plots, Sebastian, Earl of Langlinais, must turn to the wife he has not seen since the day they wed as children.

Ensnared in villianous plots, Sebastian, Earl of Langlinais, must turn to the wife he has not seen since the day they wed as children.

My beloved by karen ranney