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The Town Sheriff And The Town Tease...
Ruby Jewel was a flirt of the first order who flouted authority at every turn, but she couldn't charm her way past Marshal Quent Regan. Quent had vowed he'd make Hanging Tree's heartbreaker toe the line, even as his passion for the sultry Ruby threatened to break all the rules.
Diamond, Pearl, Jade and Ruby, The Jewels of Texas . Four sisters as wild and vibrant as the untamed land they're fighting to protect.
206 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 1, 1997
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Ruth Ryan Langan
173 books109 followersRuth Ryan Langan (aka Ruth Langan) is an award-winning author of romance novels. She is a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award winner and has twice been nominated for Romantic Times Reviwers' Choice Awards, for Jade and Return of the Prodigal Son. She has spent much of her career writing historical romance novels for the Harlequin Historicals line of category romances. Many of her book are set in medieval times, while others are western romances. She has also written some contemporary romances, and often includes elements of suspense in her novels.
Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.
Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.
Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan
Langan began her writing career in secret. Her family discovered her writings when her children came home unexpectedly from school one day and found her writing. When Langan's husband was told of her hobby, he bought her an electric typewriter "because 'writers need tools'". Her first book was published by Silhouette Books in 1981 after an editor picked it out of their slush pile. After the first sale was completed, Langan got an agent.
Langan is a charter member of the Romance Writers of America. She has five children and lives with her husband in Michigan.
Has also written under the name of Ruth Langan and R.C. Ryan
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February 28, 2019
Esperava menos... me surpreendeu...
Na verdade, eu não simpatizava muito com a Rubi. Isso só demonstra que cometi um grande erro, o mesmo erro que toda a cidade de Bayou Rouge ou Hanging Tree cometeram. Fora que me deixei levar pelas resenhas e acabei começando a ler ressabviada.
E só serviu para provar que realmente cada um tem um gosto.
Ela é, na realidade, uma mulher pura de gênio forte que ergue o queixo para lutar contra esse pré-julgamentos.
Quent, no começo da série, parecia um xerife que sempre chegava atrasado em tudo, mas isso tinha desculpa, os mocinhos e mocinhas dos outros volumes tinham que ser os heróis e isso fazia com que ele parecesse bobão. Mas de bobão ele não tem nada.
O casal, para mim, teve carisma e o enredo foi muito gostoso.
Mais um que recomendo... gostosinho demais de ler...
E vamos para o Malaquita... aquele que tenho mais curiosidade por ninguém saber de sua existência.🌟🌟🌟🌟
Na verdade, eu não simpatizava muito com a Rubi. Isso só demonstra que cometi um grande erro, o mesmo erro que toda a cidade de Bayou Rouge ou Hanging Tree cometeram. Fora que me deixei levar pelas resenhas e acabei começando a ler ressabviada.
E só serviu para provar que realmente cada um tem um gosto.
Ela é, na realidade, uma mulher pura de gênio forte que ergue o queixo para lutar contra esse pré-julgamentos.
Quent, no começo da série, parecia um xerife que sempre chegava atrasado em tudo, mas isso tinha desculpa, os mocinhos e mocinhas dos outros volumes tinham que ser os heróis e isso fazia com que ele parecesse bobão. Mas de bobão ele não tem nada.
O casal, para mim, teve carisma e o enredo foi muito gostoso.
Mais um que recomendo... gostosinho demais de ler...
E vamos para o Malaquita... aquele que tenho mais curiosidade por ninguém saber de sua existência.🌟🌟🌟🌟
June 24, 2025
0.5 stars
December 29, 2014
This is fourth in a series of novels following the offspring of the deceased Onyx Jewel. There are five books centered on his children, Diamond, Pearl, Jade, Ruby and Malachite. I have not read the other novels and have no interest in doing so.
From those names, you know this book is sappy and has a cornball element. That being said, it is enjoyable and has a nice cast of secondary characters that flitter through. It's a fluffy, quick read if you're bored.
I give Langan book major credit for flouting convention with a heroine who enjoys flaunting her decolletage. Ruby is self-aware, sexy, and naturally inclined towards flirtation. She doesn't believe there is man alive she cannot manipulate with her feminine wiles. It works, for those who like their heroines more humble, because Ruby's attitude is partly a brittle facade she uses to deflect the fact that negative opinions cause a real sense of unrest in her. The more she is judged for her appearance and behavior, the more she relies on them as a safety net. Loved Ruby. She made this book for me.
The cover art is a perfect depiction of her.
From those names, you know this book is sappy and has a cornball element. That being said, it is enjoyable and has a nice cast of secondary characters that flitter through. It's a fluffy, quick read if you're bored.
I give Langan book major credit for flouting convention with a heroine who enjoys flaunting her decolletage. Ruby is self-aware, sexy, and naturally inclined towards flirtation. She doesn't believe there is man alive she cannot manipulate with her feminine wiles. It works, for those who like their heroines more humble, because Ruby's attitude is partly a brittle facade she uses to deflect the fact that negative opinions cause a real sense of unrest in her. The more she is judged for her appearance and behavior, the more she relies on them as a safety net. Loved Ruby. She made this book for me.
The cover art is a perfect depiction of her.
July 6, 2013
As Jóias do Texas 04
Rubi
Ruth Langan
A exuberante Rubi tem um jeito de resolver as coisas que me fascina, até a sua pequena vingança é adorável. Pena que o xerife Quent demora tanto tempo para perceber o ser maravilhoso que tem nas mãos.
Enquanto o xerife mete os pés pelas mãos, Rubi vai nos mostrando seu verdadeiro eu, e desmistificando a imagem de mulher fatal. O lado exuberante não passa de uma mascara para esconder a carência e a baixa estima.
Bem, o livro é adorável, vale à pena ler de cabo a rabo, espero que você goste, porque...
ADORO!!!
Rubi
Ruth Langan
A exuberante Rubi tem um jeito de resolver as coisas que me fascina, até a sua pequena vingança é adorável. Pena que o xerife Quent demora tanto tempo para perceber o ser maravilhoso que tem nas mãos.
Enquanto o xerife mete os pés pelas mãos, Rubi vai nos mostrando seu verdadeiro eu, e desmistificando a imagem de mulher fatal. O lado exuberante não passa de uma mascara para esconder a carência e a baixa estima.
Bem, o livro é adorável, vale à pena ler de cabo a rabo, espero que você goste, porque...
ADORO!!!
July 13, 2013
THIS IS AN WONDERFUL AND PASSIONATE NOVEL. MARSHAL QUENT REGAN IS FALLING FOR THE BEAUTIFUL RUBY JEWEL, WHILE SHE IS FALLING FOR HIM. GOOD READ SO FAR!!! EXCELLENT NOVEL FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE ENDING. MARSHAL GOT HIS MAN AND MARRIED SEXY RUBY JEWEL AT THE END!!! DIAMOND HAD A BABY BOY, SHE NAMED AFTER THEIR LATE FATHER ONYX JEWEL!!!
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January 5, 2009Start this series with Diamond. She is the first sister.
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