Ruth Ann Nordin Books In Order

Queen of Raz

In this sequel to Ann’s Quest To Be Queen, Ann is called upon to save her home planet, Earth. Two years after becoming Queen of Raz, Ann discovers that her dead enemy Omin, from planet Pale, left a clone of himself. At the right moment, the clone, Omin 2, wakes up and goes to Earth to destroy Ann before she can become Queen of Raz. Along with Ann, Hathor and William are thrown back six years into the past. Although Hathor and William remember those six years, Ann has no memory of it. The Palers and Olympians struggle to find and rescue the Queen while Hathor and William fight for the right to claim her heart. Ultimately, the struggle will come against Omin 2 whose desire to rule the entire Earth convinces him to make a slave race of the entire world. Now it is up to Ann and her allies to save Earth before it s too late.

In Pursuit of a Queen

When Ann Kerwin left Earth to become Queen of Raz, she had no idea what she was getting herself into. Now, five years later, she has developed the skills and knowledge that has given her the reputation for being a Queen worthy of ruling Raz. From another galaxy, the Augurs request her alliance. She is ready to meet with them when an emergency comes to her attention. She must go to the Nicals and retrieve the Stone of Immortality which the Nicals stole from the Olympians in their quest to survive a severe plague that destroyed all but a handful of their people. The Augurs meet with Hathor instead and send him and Queen Ann to the lost city of Atlantis where they will meet old friends, confront an old nemesis and learn the genesis of the Olympian rulership. Ultimately, Ann will be forced to protect her unborn child, the next Queen of Raz, from those who would destroy her.

An Inconvenient Marriage

In order to receive his inheritance, Jake Mitchell must marry. In order to save her family’s farm, Sue Lewis must marry a rich man. So Jake comes up with a plan. Why not strike up a platonic, business arrangement where they can marry each other for six months? Then they are free to annul the marriage and go their separate ways. Unfortunately for him, the people he knows are determined to keep them together. Between an army of suitors willing to woo Sue before her annulment and the Lewis brothers scheming to show Jake how attractive she is, laughter and love are in the air. And in the end, a confirmed bachelor might discover that An Inconvenient Marriage may not be so inconvenient after all. This historical romantic comedy is rated R.

An Unlikely Place for Love

Kate Tanner Was Hiding from Her Parent’s Killers. She Never Expected to Find Romance Especially While Dressed as a Man.

When Kate Tanner witnesses the murder of her parents, the wealthy Virginia Sen. Murphy Tanner and his wife, Abigail, she knows she needs to disappear and fast until the killers are behind bars. So she dons what she thinks is a foolproof disguise masculinity calls herself Billy Ingram, and travels to the country to find work. It’s her way of laying low until justice is served, but it isn’t long before she’s getting more than she bargained for. Now, on a North Dakota farm, this former city girl struggles to convince her employer, the handsome Chad Walker, she has what it takes to handle demanding farm chores. Meanwhile, the men who killed her parents are searching for her, a woman named Lacy Montgomery is infatuated with her, and Kate’s fallen in love with Mr. Walker. Then she’s seen without her disguise and the excuses start to really make things interesting. Can Kate survive long enough for the charade to reach a happy ending? In the spirit of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Ruth Ann Nordin’s An Unlikely Place for Love might just convince you the oddest circumstances make the perfect settings for Romance.

The Cold Wife

He Has a Month to Win Her Love. And They’re Already Married. First comes love, then comes marriage right? Not so for Carrie Allen. When her newly bankrupt father arranges a union with the wealthy but unappealing Justin Monroe interrupting a nascent courtship with the one she loves Carrie’s understandably upset. But even after telling her new husband they’re wrong for each other, he refuses to grant an immediate annulment. Instead, Justin offers a deal: a month long trial marriage. As she does everything she can to prove the marriage is doomed, he tries just as hard to win her affection. All of which makes for an uproarious romantic comedy set amid the manners and mores of the late nineteenth century. Will Carrie melt under the heat of Justin’s desire? Or will she always remain The Cold Wife?

Romancing Adrienne

Adrienne Dayton flees from an arranged marriage to a man who doesn’t love her. In fact, she is convinced that no man will sincerely love her. So when she ends up in a small town with a group of men wanting to be with her, she seeks escape from their advances. However, Trevor Lewis is intrigued by her and wonders what it will take to win her heart. When she offers to show him what romance is, he turns the tables on her. He’ll be the one to romance her…
until she agrees to marry him.

Loving Eliza

All Eliza wanted was a new beginning…
Eliza leaves Omaha for a new life. A chance to be something she never had the opportunity to be before: a lady a woman with a good reputation. John Evans has never belonged in his small town. So when Eliza shows up and treats him better than anyone ever has, he’s ready to marry her before she finds someone she’d rather be with. But she harbors a secret that makes someone like her unsuitable for marriage, and she is determined that no one will ever find out. Ever. Until someone from her past shows up…
Then who is going to dare love a woman like her?

Bid for a Bride

A western historical romance where a blind man agrees to marry a woman whose marriage is annuled after her bigamist husband auctions her off to the highest bidder. The hero is Brian Evans who is the adopted son of Eliza and John from Loving Eliza. This book is rated R for sex and PG 13 for violence.

Eye of the Beholder

Mary Peters despairs that she will never get married. At nineteen, she has no prospects for finding a husband, so she takes matters into her own hands and becomes a mail order bride. When she arrives in Omaha, Nebraska to meet the man she’s due to marry, he takes one look at her homely appearance and rejects her. But fate has other plans for Mary, for Dave Larson, happens to be nearby and figures she will make a suitable companion to help him on his farm. Though she is stunned that someone as handsome and as kind as Dave would ask her to marry him, she accepts, realizing that this marriage of convenience will not bear the fruits of love. Love, after all, is for beautiful women. Isn’t it? This historical western romance is rated R.

The Wrong Husband

Owen Russell is in deep trouble. In order to save his aunt from poverty due to a bad gambling problem his uncle had, he wins back the money from the group of gamblers and returns it to her. Realizing that they want to kill him, he flees from Louisiana to Nebraska where he runs into the sheriff who mistakes him for Irving Spencer who signed up to be his deputy. Owen decides that this beats death because there are Wanted posters all over the place seeking his arrest. So he plays along and pretends to be Irving. What he doesn’t realize is that Irving agreed to marry Jenny Larson. One look at her tells him that she is beautiful, so he agrees to marry her. But what will he do when the real Irving shows up? This romantic comedy is rated R.

His Redeeming Bride

Seven years after Eye of the Beholder ends, Neil Craftsman’s story begins. When Sarah Donner learns she’s pregnant, she hopes this blessing will be the thing to make her husband finally love her. But to her horror, he announces that she will go live with her overbearing mother in law. Weeks before she is due to give birth, they are traveling to her mother in law’s when some thieves kill him. Ready to give birth, she has to rely on the aid of the one man others had warned her about: Neil Craftsman. She knows of his tarnished past, and no respectable woman will go near him. But when she learns her husband left her with no home and no money, she has nowhere else to go but to the one man she’s shunned. As she gets to know Neil, she learns that there is more to him than meets the eye. But when his past comes back to haunt him, will her newfound love be enough to redeem him or will he always be a shunned man?

With This Ring, I Thee Dread

Ryan Jackson and Elizabeth Valentine can’t stand each other. Unfortunately for them, their parents get along great and decide to play matchmaker in a very unusual way. In order to keep their jobs, they agree to marry for four months and spend their honeymoon in a remote Alaskan cabin. But they are determined that their parents’ ruse will never work. Nope. They will return to Omaha and get an annulment. And it all goes according to plan…
until Ryan decides to wants to stay married. Then all bets are off. This contemporary romantic comedy is rated R.

What Nathan Wants

What could a man who already has everything possibly want? How about a baby? Someone to carry on his business when he dies? Nathan Rudolph interviews all the single women in his company. They think they might get a job promotion, but he comes with a marriage license instead. And the winner isn’t happy. But he’s dealt with difficult people before and is certain that, in no time at all, Amy Watson will be very happy to be Mrs. Nathan Rudolph. So he goes about the business of seducing his spouse. *Warning: the characters in this book may be construed as immature. The hero is a control freak who is underhanded and sneaky. Under the guise of a job promotion, he makes her sign papers so he can do a proxy marriage, and the too-stupid-to-live hero*ine doesn’t even seek legal advice! But that’s not the worst of it. This hero*ine is no kick-butt female. Though she protests the marriage over and over again, she can’t ‘stop’ herself from snuggling up to him in bed and enjoys his kisses. She even goes so far as to fulfill one of his fantasies! If this is not your idea of comedy, you’re better off avoiding this book.

Meant To Be

This romantic comedy takes a light hearted look at time travel. While on a train heading west, Ted Jacob and Megan Crane are thrown into the past with no idea of why or how they got there. They get off the train in Fargo, North Dakota. To their dismay, they are in April 1898. To their horror, the people insist that Ted and Megan marry at once! But Ted and Megan don’t even know each other, and despite their protests, the preacher declares them man and wife. They are determined to get back to the future and forget this farce of a marriage. But in the end, they may discover that some things are Meant To Be…
and their marriage just might be one of them.

Restoring Hope

In the middle of the night, a young Mandan Indian woman, Woape, flees her tormentors. When Gary Milton finds her, he doesn’t know why three Indian men want to harm her. But he’s sure of one thing: he must save her. So he does. Feeling safe with him, she follows him home. Haunted by her past and stuck in a white man’s world, she clings to him and becomes his wife. But her past is not far behind, and when it catches up to her, much more is at stake than before. Will she ever find the peace and security she longs for? Or will her life be in the hands of her tormentors forever? *This historical western romance is rated R.

Death Planet

The soil is dying and the air is losing its oxygen. The devastation begins at the equator but is quickly spreading north and south. Soon the entire Earth will become uninhabitable to everyone and everything living on it. As the scientists hurry to find a solution that will be mankind’s salvation, Adam Riley works on a time machine. Adam succeeds in building his machine, and he travels in the past to find a solution, but the answer is not in the past. By accident, he finds himself in the future where people have long since been extinct. The new species, the Erudites, decide to bring humans to their time so mankind may continue to live. But Adam’s sister leads a rebellion that will lead Adam to the discovery of what caused mankind’s extinction. Through this discovery, Adam will be forced to make a choice that will determine the fate of both mankind and the Erudites.

The Vampire’s Kiss

Cara Stivers hasn’t had a date in almost a year, so when her friend offers to fix her up with two different boys, she readily agrees to meet them. But one of the boys, Nate Summers, is the same boy who haunts her in her dreams. Except in her dreams, he’s a vampire and he’s dangerous. When the murders begin, she knows that Nate is behind them, and she finds out that he is going to kill her next. In a race against time, she has to find out who he really is, why he wants to kill her and how to stop him before it’s too late.

The Dimensions

Imagine a doorway that can take you to an alternate dimension. Imagine a dimension where time travel is as common as watching TV. Imagine a dimension where animals do your bidding at the sound of the music you play. This is a contemporary fantasy story where a group of friends will discover that the world we live in, the 3rd dimension, isn’t the only one there is. Desperate to leave his past behind, Steve Montgomery runs away from Ohio to Raven, Montana where he meets the one girl who can erase the horrible memories that haunt his mind. She is Jessica Riley. The girl who knows he is hiding a dangerous secret but has yet to uncover it. The girl who is determined to stand by him to the end, even when his father threatens to kill her. The girl who follows him through other dimensions just to be with him. Caught between redemption and hell, Steve will have to make the final decision on whether to keep her safe or to follow his heart.

Katnia: Xana’s Representative

Karen Tyler is abducted by a group of friendly aliens from the planet Xana, which is in danger of being attacked by its neighbor, Parisia. She agrees to help them. The Parisian aliens have chosen Nathan to be their mediator, and she is shocked to learn that another Earthling will be her nemesis. Aboard the Parisian spaceship, five Parisians try to kill her, so she is forced to flee into the Xanian wilderness where it is a matter of time before her enemies catch up with her.

Witness to a Murder

I witnessed a murder. It was horrible. Rick Thompson killed Brenda Garner after school in a vacant hallway. No one else saw it. I didn t go to the police or tell my mom right away. I should have. I didn t tell anyone what I saw until it was too late. And now no one believes me. No one but Rick Thompson. And I think he’s going to kill me too.

Todd’s Bride

Set in 1899 outside the town of Jamestown, North Dakota, Ann Statesman marries Todd Brothers in order to escape the heartbreak of watching Kent with his new love, Rebecca. Though she grew up knowing Todd, she never considered a romantic relationship with him. In fact, she found him bothersome most of the time. When Todd reveals his plan to move to North Dakota, she insists that he marry her and take her with him. Though hesitant, he agrees for he can t deny his love for her. As she adjusts to her new life on a farm without the comforts of riches, she embraces a closer relationship to God and discovers a newfound friendship with Todd who promises to wait for her to be ready before consummating their marriage. Just as she begins to open her heart to him, she learns that Kent has ended his engagement to Rebecca and is coming for her. In the struggle between the spirit and the flesh, she ultimately decides that love is more than a feeling; it is a choice. But Kent is not willing to let her go without a fight, and she will need to rely on God to sustain her through the turmoil that lies ahead.

Winning the Heart of Adrienne

In order to avoid a loveless marriage to a man twice her age, Adrienne Dayton hops a train from San Francisco to New York City where she plans to start a new life. Trevor Lewis gets on the train to become a playwright in New York City. On their way there, she accidentally bumps into Trevor, and both of them fall out of the train and end up in a small town in Virginia where they have to work in order to pay for another ticket to get to New York. Though they initially hate each other, they begin to see that first impressions can be misleading, and when he falls in love with her, he’s determined to win her heart, even when she tries to fix him up with another young woman in town.

Can’t Help Falling In Love

Ryan Jackson and Elizabeth Valentine can’t stand each other. Unfortunately for them, their parents get along great and decide to play matchmaker in a very unusual way. In order to keep their jobs, Ryan and Elizabeth will have to get married and spend four months in a cabin stuck in the middle of nowhere, Alaska with only each other for company. They are determined that their parents’ ruse will never work, but four months can seem like an awfully long time and Alaska is the perfect spot for falling in love…
if they’re not careful.

Falling In Love With Her Husband

Todd Brothers loves Ann Statesman. But she doesn’t love him. Ann loves Kent Ashton. When Kent gets engaged to another woman, Ann’s world is shattered. She no longer trusts her judgment in picking the right man to marry. So she decides to choose the man her parents have always admired and respected. Todd. But Todd plans to leave Virginia despite his father’s objections. Knowing she doesn’t love him, he tells her his decision to move to North Dakota to become a farmer. He is shocked when she asks him to take her with him. Hesitant, he finally agrees, torn between the reality that she doesn’t love him but hoping she’ll learn to love him over time. They elope and embark on the beginning of friendship. At their new home, Ann gets to know Todd as more than her best friend’s older brother. But will her newfound love for her husband be enough when Kent comes for her? This historical romance is rated R.