Till Next We Meet

By Karen Ranney

In a departure from her nationally bestselling Highland Lord series, Karen Ranney brings us another emotionally intense and passionate story that will speak to her fans.

When Adam Moncrief, Colonel of the Highland Scots Fusiliers, agrees to write a letter to Catherine Dunnan, one of his officers' wives, a forbidden correspondence develops and he soon becomes fascinated with her even though Catherine thinks the letters come from her husband, Harry Dunnan. Although Adam stops writing after Harry is killed, a year after his last letter he still can't forget her.Then when he unexpectedly inherits the title of the Duke of Lymond, Adam decides the timing is perfect to pay a visit to the now single and available Catherine.What he finds, however, is not the charming, spunky woman he knew from her letters, but a woman stricken by grief, drugged by laudanum and in fear for her life. In order to protect her, Adam marries Catherine, hoping that despite her seemingly fragile state, he will once again discover the woman he fell in love with.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Oct 13, 2009
• ISBN: 9780061754128

Karen Ranney

Karen Ranney wanted to be a writer from the time she was five years old and filled her Big Chief tablet with stories. People in stories did amazing things and she was too shy to do anything amazing. Years spent in Japan, Paris, and Italy, however, not only fueled her imagination but proved she wasn't that shy after all. Now a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, she prefers to keep her adventures between the covers of her books. Karen lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Reviews for Till Next We Meet

[samnreader · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

What's a little historical catfishing?This book is lovely. I enjoyed the letters, and though the hero did some objectively creepy things, it worked for him

[n.w.moors-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Colonel Montcrief is a Colonel stationed in Canada against the French. One of his men, Harry Dunnan, is thoroughly unlikeable, but when letters from his wife go unanswered, Montcrief steps in to answer them. Harry dies, and Montcrief inherits the title of Duke of Lymond, so when he returns to Scotland, he visits the widow he's fallen in love with from her letters. He finds her in a terrible state and promptly marries her. She took too much laudanum, but the suspicion is that someone is trying to murder her. Catherine mourns Harry, not realizing that he was a scoundrel. Montcrief and Catherine spend the rest of the book solving these mysteries and learning to love each other (well, Montcrief is already in love).It's a good story and a quick read. Montcrief is a sweetheart and Catherine finally gets out of her widow whining to realize his good qualities. There are some interesting secondary characters, and Ms. Ranney is a good writer.

[deleine-4 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I was hooked on HR for a very long time - this is my top book

[reneebooks · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Catherine marries Harry who's a complete ass; a gambler, womanizer, and fortune hunter. After one month of marriage he can't wait to get away from her and he buys a commission in the army. He writes beautiful letters home to Catherine and she falls in love with him through the letters. He dies. Here's the Big Secret (not a spoiler). Moncrief, Harry's commanding officer has been answering her letters not Harry. Harry could care less about his wife (or is that couldn't care less, I never know which is correct). She goes into a major depression, becomes addicted to laudanum, and takes an overdose.Moncrief arrives in the nick of time. Saves her by dunking her is a bath of cold water, sees her naked which compromises her, and marries her while she is still in a drugged stupor. The whole plot is implausible as hell. She wakes up with him in her bed. No reaction, nada... OK, maybe if she is still under the effects of a powerful drug like laudanum I can maybe see this. But he carts her off almost immediately to his family home (a castle - he's a duke). She won't consummate the marriage. He agrees to wait a month but insists they still sleep together in the same bed (*rolls eyes*).Amazingly, I thought it was very well written and the story never dragged. At first I thought Catherine was the real problem with this book but her story is fairly believable. Harry could have made himself very charming to fool unsuspecting women. Moncrief is the problem here. Why doesn't he reveal himself as the author of the letters soon after he marries her? After all, if you find someone who blandly accepts waking up in bed with a complete stranger, being forceably married, and hauled off to a strange home without a squeak of protest then why not reveal a little thing like writing a few letters in her husband's name? In the meantime more secrets are revealed when Catherine discovers what a bounder Harry is from people who knew him before he died. Murder plot inserted here. (Grade: C-)