Promo Spotlight and Giveaway: To Bed the Bride by Karen Ranney

I'm hosting, today, a promo on Karen Ranney's latest historical romance release, To Bed the Bride (All for Love #3), as a part of the ongoing VBT. Also find an excerpt for your enjoyment. To enter to paperback giveaway for the featured book (US ONLY), please check the post below.

To Bed the Bride
Karen Ranney
(All for Love #3)
Published: November 26, 2019 by Avon Romance

New York Times Bestselling Author Karen Ranney’s captivating series concludes with a tale of opposites whose attraction scorches a trail from the Highlands to the glittering halls of London—and courts scandal at every turn . . .

Politics has introduced MP Logan McKnight to many fascinating people, but the lady he encounters on the lands bordering his ancestral Scottish home outshines them all. Eleanor Craig of Hearthmere seats a Thoroughbred like a queen, knows as much about world events as any of his colleagues—and is engaged to one of the worst men Logan knows. She also seems lonely, so Logan brings her a friend. Thus should their acquaintance end, yet it’s only just begun.

The puppy Logan delivers is every bit as irresistible as the man himself. How could this stranger sense the isolation Eleanor suffers among her scheming, snobbish extended family and fiancé who control her life? It’s even worse in London—until she begins meeting Logan secretly in a secluded park. Their passionate connection frees Eleanor, body and soul. But discovery threatens disgrace—or worse.

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Promo Spotlight: To Wed an Heiress by Karen Ranney

I'm hosting, today, a promo on Karen Ranney's latest historical romance release, To Wed an Heiress (All for Love #2), as a part of the ongoing VBT. Also find an excerpt for your enjoyment.

To Wed an Heiress

Karen Ranney

(All for Love #2)

Published: March 26, 2019 by Avon Romance 

Rebellion drove Mercy Rutherford to Scotland to escape the possessive grip of her fiancé. But it’s fate that lands her in the crumbling highlands castle of Ross Caithart. A dreamer with visions of inventing airships, he’s most certainly mad. Handsome beyond words, he’s also causing an irresistible flutter in her stomach beyond reason. When Gregory arrives to see their arranged marriage to its bitter end, Mercy desperately turns to Ross with an offer of her fortune—and her hand in marriage.

The Earl of Morton has a reputation for being a daredevil eccentric, but even he is hesitant to engage in such a rash proposition—no matter how utterly beguiled he is by the wildly independent American heiress. And yet, with so much at stake, how can he possibly say no? But when their unconventional union grows into a passionate and inseparable love, more than Gregory’s obsession threatens them. Now, Ross and Mercy will have to risk more than their hearts to save it.

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Return to Clan Sinclair by Karen Ranney

Return to Clan Sinclair (novella)
Clan Sinclair #3.5

Karen Ranney
Historical Romance
Pub date: December 23, 2014 (ARC review)

H/h - Bruce Preston/Lady Ceana Sinclair Mead
Setting: Scotland, 1880.

Read in December, 2014.

My rating:

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Return to Clan Sinclair was a spinoff novella by Karen Ranney from her historical romance series, Clan Sinclair. I’ve read the previous 3 original installments and enjoyed them, so it was a pleasure for me to revisit the characters and the setting as a whole.

The original Clan Sinclair series talks about 3 siblings, Macrath, Mairi and Ceana. Orphaned quite young, Macrath had to take over his father’s printing business to take care of his younger sisters. He also, later, took in one of their distant cousins, also an orphan, Fenella, who grew up with them. She has always been welcomed and treated as another sister. Though book 1, The Devil of Clan Sinclair, is Macrath’s story and book 2, The Witch of Clan Sinclair, is Mairi’s, Ceana wasn’t a part of this series as a whole. She was seen or mentioned once or twice, already married to an Irish nobleman. Fenella got her HEA in book 2 as a secondary romance, with one of Mairi’s employees, pressman Alan.

The Virgin of Clan Sinclair by Karen Ranney

The Virgin of Clan Sinclair
Clan Sinclair #3

Karen Ranney
Historical Romance
Published in 2014

H/h - Ross Forster, the Earl of Gadsden/Ellice Traylor
Setting: Scotland, 1875.

Read in June, 2014.

My rating:

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The Virgin of Clain Sinclair, book 3 and the final installment of Karen Ranney’s Clan Sinclair series was more of a letdown for me. Even though I liked reading this as a part of the series and revisiting the other couples and secondary characters, the dynamics of the main characters, h Ellice and H Ross left much to be desired. I’ll just get down to my review to try to explain why I felt that way.

Ellice is the daughter and sister of the deceased Earls of Barrett. She’s the youngest of her siblings. Sadly, in the course of the first book, The Devil of Clan Sinclair, she loses her elder sister Eudora to an epidemic of smallpox. Her brother, Lawrence had already died by then, leaving her the then SIL, Virginia in a dilemma. I never liked Virginia, so will not go into the details but she goes to find happiness with a man she’d loved before marrying Lawrence; Macrath Sinclair, a handsome Scottish inventor. The dilemma of begetting an heir to the earldom left Virginia with a lot of trouble with Macrath, yet there was no apparent solution. Ellice and Enid would’ve been poor and dependent on the mercy of relatives had Virginia have not taken them in. Though Macrath started out very humbly, his brilliance, determination and skills, together with his invention of the ice-machine made him very rich. His family already consisted of his two sisters, Mairi and Ceana and an orphaned cousin, Fenella. Taking in two more very distant relatives wouldn’t have been that big of a deal for him. And he would’ve done anything for his Virginia... which is how Ellice comes to find a home at Drumvagen.