Addy Starr

by Ruth Ryan Langan

Desperately gathering as much wealth as possible in order to begin the search for her two lost sisters, Addy finds herself caught up in her passions for an embittered invalid, a drunken loner, and a mysterious and obsessive stranger. Original.

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1992

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

Reviews

[Purple-pinky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this book A long time ago.
Found it on Amazon. Still love it.
Addy what a character. She is strong yet vulnerable.
Her life changes for the best when she meets Jake and Sam.
Reading as she looks for her lost sisters. Had me laughing and crying in equal measure.

[Nivi_pooh · Rating 3 out of 5]

How Addy from Poverty reaches the riches and yet never forget her past