Award-winning author (New York Times Extended List and USA Today best-seller) Ruth Ryan Langan has written more than fifty novels, both contemporary and historical. She creates characters that Affaire de Coeur magazine calls, "so incredibly human the reader will expect them to come over for tea", and Rendezvouz described as, "Absolutely soar with imagery, suspense, plot twists, and passionate, sexual tension." Five of Ruth's books have been finalists for the Romance Writers of America's RITA Award. Ruth has given dozens of radio, television and print interviews across the U.S. and Canada, including such diverse publications as THE NEW YORK TIMES and COSMOPOLITAN, and has been interviewed on CNN NEWS and GOOD MORNING AMERICA. Married to her childhood sweetheart, she has raised five children and lives in Michigan.