Mysteries of the Heart

by Ruth Ryan Langan

BURIED SECRETS...HIDDEN DESIRES — Did Seth Williams treat everyone with such disdain ...or just her? Jenny Mason knew the brilliant writer-illustrator of children's books had a reputation as an angry recluse, but her editorial skills were being wasted here on his Maine farm. Trying to "nudge" Seth Williams to complete his long overdue manuscript was like trying to move a mountain.

He didn't need help; he didn't need Jenny, tempting him with her soft, sexy voice. But that obstinate, intrusive little woman had bewitched him, filled him with long-suppressed desires ... and the first faint glimmer of forgotten dreams.

189 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 1986

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