Destiny's Daughter

by Ruth Ryan Langan

N THE ANTE-BELLUM SOUTH, NEW ORLEANS WAS A CITY OF SCANDAL, DANGER…AND LOVE..

From her convent home, Annalisa Montgomery sailed downriver to her wealthy mother, a mysterious woman she had never known. En voyage, a handsome gambler flashed his heart-stopping smile, and with a single touch he filled her with unsettling desire. Chase Masters vowed to pursue this exquisite creature with all his dashing charm. But in New Orleans Annalisa fled, only to discover that her mother's sudden demise had left her a shocking legacy…the most gracious house of pleasure in the South's most wicked city!

Swept into a maze of corruption and intrigue, Annalisa was saved by the sudden appearance of Chase, ever ready to protect her. With his masterful sensuality he aroused in her a woman's needs, until at last she lost herself in his impassioned arms. But Chase harbored a dangerous secret that could surely shatter their love. One a final mission for his country, he would spin fortune's wheel for their future and for his life!

Genres: Historical Romance

368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Ruth 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