SCOTSMAN OF MY DREAMS
MacIain Series #3
Karen Ranney
Releasing Aug 25th, 2015
In USA
Today and New York Times bestselling author Karen
Ranney’s second novel in her breathtaking series, an unconventional woman and a
former scoundrel embark on a daring mission of desire.
Once the ton’s most notorious rake, Dalton MacIain has returned from his
expedition to America during the Civil War-wounded and a changed man. Instead
of attending soirees, he now spends his time as a recluse. But Dalton’s peace
is disturbed when Minerva Todd barges into his London townhouse, insisting he
help search for her missing brother Neville. Though Dalton would love to spend
more time with the bewitching beauty, he has no interest in finding Neville-for
he blames him for his injury.
Minerva has never met a more
infuriating man than the Earl of Rathsmere yet she is intrigued by the torrid
rumors she has heard about him…and the fierce attraction pulling her toward
him.
Dalton does not count on Minerva’s
persistence-or the desire she awakens in him, compelling him to discover her
brother’s fate. But when danger surrounds them, Dalton fears he will lose the
tantalizing, thoroughly unpredictable woman he has come to love.
EXCERPT 2:
Dalton MacIain,
Earl of Rathsmere, stood in the doorway of his library, listening to Howington
argue with a harridan. Were there peddlers in Tarkington Square
Turning back to the
room, he dismissed the two of them. Howington would get rid of her, whoever she
was.
He shouldn’t have
sent his majordomo to Gledfield. If Samuels had remained here he would have
opened the door, thereby sparing Howington the duty. Samuels would have also
been a buffer between him and Howington. Pity that he hadn’t considered that
earlier. Now Howington was always present, forever hovering in that obsequious
way of his.
He moved unerringly
to the window, reached up and closed the drapes against the storm. He
remembered their shade, an emerald color he favored. Everything else about the
room was as he recalled it: two wing chairs upholstered in a dark green
fabric sat before the fireplace with a small table between them; enough
books in the shelves that he gave the appearance of being a well-read man. His
onetime companions would have been genuinely shocked to know that he had read
most of them, a good thing now.
Thunder rumbled,
the windows shivering in response. The drumming of rain on the street outside
sounded like muffled artillery.
He made his way to
the sideboard on the opposite wall, a distance of exactly ten feet.
Removing the
stopper from the cut glass decanter, he reached for a glass and tried to hold
it steady. Another roar of thunder, this one sounding too much like cannon
fire, made him put down the decanter and the glass, hearing the chink as they
landed on the tray.
He stood with his
fingers braced against the sideboard, staring straight ahead and willing his
hands to stop their trembling.
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Karen Ranney began writing when she was
five. Her first published work was The Maple Leaf, read over the school
intercom when she was in the first grade. In addition to wanting to be a
violinist (her parents had a special violin crafted for her when she was
seven), she wanted to be a lawyer, a teacher, and, most of all, a writer.
Though the violin was discarded early, she still admits to a fascination with
the law, and she volunteers as a teacher whenever needed. Writing, however, has
remained the overwhelming love of her life.
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