Ruth Ann Nordin
Bestselling Author of Historical Romances and Romantic Comedies
Ruth Ann Nordin's Books
Nebraska Historical Romances
These books feature everyone from the "Nebraska world" that started with Dave and Mary Larson in Eye of the Beholder. After I wrote Eye of the Beholder, I wanted to write about Neil Craftsman, Jenny Larson, Jessica and Tom Larson, Joel Larson, Mary and Dave's oldest son Isaac Larson, and more. This page is the chronological order for all of the books, and I will add to it in time to come since I plan to write more based on these characters.
- Her Heart's Desire being written
Sally Larson has just met the man of her dreams, but Rick Johnson happens to be in love with her friend, Ethel Mae. Not to be discouraged by the this slight inconvenience, Sally and Ethel Mae scheme a way to get him interested in Sally.
More information will be available as I figure out where the story is headed. (I'm a write-by-the-seat-of-your-pants type of author, so I figure out the plot as I go along.)- A Bride for Tom (novella)
Romantic Comedy (G)Tom Larson is having trouble finding a wife, and Jessica Reynolds decides to help him overcome his awkward and clumsy manners so he can attract women.
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- A Husband for Margaret (novella)
Light and Tender Romance (R)This is a historical romance (R) that was inspired while I was writing "A Bride for Tom". In "A Bride for Tom", Jessica had a good friend named Margaret who had a terrible time finding a man, so at the end of the story, she had posted an ad for a husband.
When Margaret Williams posted an ad for a husband, she expected Paul Connealy to arrive. But Paul couldn‘t make it because of a fatal accident. However, Paul had a brother and that brother needed a wife in the worst possible way.
Joseph Connealy jumped at the chance to marry Margaret. Sure, he didn‘t know her, but he saw her ad and figured she‘d suit him just fine. His only hope was that when he arrived, she‘d accept his proposal...and his four young boys that came with it.
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- Eye of the Beholder
Tender Romance (R)Story Sample: Dave Meets Mary
Mary Peters despairs that she will never get married. At nineteen, she has no prospects of 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. Dave Larson happens to be nearby and thinks she will make a good wife. Though she is stunned that someone as handsome and as kind as Dave would ask her to marry him, she accepts. She knows that this marriage will not bear the fruits of love. Love, after all, is for beautiful women. Isn't it?
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Romantic Comedy (R)Story Sample: Owen Marries Jenny
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 the southern state of Louisiana to Nebraska where he runs into the sheriff who mistakes him for Irving 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 didn't realize is that Irving agreed to marry Jenny Larson (Dave Larson's sister from Eye of the Beholder). One look at her tells him that she is beautiful, so he agrees to marry her. His lies, of course, do keep building and eventually catch up with him when the real Irving shows up.
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Rated RApril Edwards, a young widow, is content to manage a farm with her fourteen-year-old brother and a one-year-old daughter. Nothing, after all, could be worse than being married to her deceased husband. Nothing, that is, until her unscrupulous brother-in-law decides to marry her. With no other recourse, April and her brother concoct a plan--one that involves the unsuspecting doctor’s assistant, Joel Larson.
Joel Larson doesn't want to be married. In fact, he’s perfectly happy with things the way they are, but when he’s sent to check on April’s sick child, things take an unexpected turn for the worse. In one instant, he finds a gun and a mandate to marry April staring him in the face. Can a marriage that begins with a shotgun be just the thing Joel needs or has April just confined herself to another miserable marriage?
- To Have and To Hold being written
Rating: R
This is Dave and Mary Larson's second story. I got a lot of requests for a second book featuring them, and for the longest time, I couldn' t come up with a good plot until recently.
I've decided Mary will get amnesia and have to adjust to being a wife and mother. In an effort to help her recover her memory, Dave will go with her back to Maine where she'll be reminded of the more unpleasant aspects of her past which will test their marriage.
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Tender Romance (R)Story Sample: Neil Marries Sarah
Seven years after Eye of the Beholder ends, Neil Craftsman's story begins. (I recommend reading Eye of the Beholder first, which is why it's available as a free ebook.)
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?
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- Isaac's Decision Now Available!
Rated R“Stay away from the Craftsman girl.” For the past three years, Isaac Larson obeyed his father, making sure to keep his distance from Emily Craftsman. But day after day, he’s reminded of how beautiful she is and knows she is the only woman who has the power to make his blood boil with desire.
Emily has always pursued what she wants, and she wants Isaac. Determined to find out why he avoids her, she disguises herself as a man and befriends him. Will she find out the secret behind his silence? And, more importantly, can she stop him before he thinks of marrying another woman?Kobo
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