Eileen Ramsay (née Ainsworth; 16 December 1940 – 18 January 2023)^[1] was a British writer of romance novels. She wrote 18 books from 1985.

Eileen Ainsworth was born in Ayrshire, Scotland on 16 December 1940. After graduating^[where?] she went to teach in the United States for 18 years. She married Ian Ramsay, a Scottish scientist, and they had two children. They returned to Scotland, and after teaching for a few years she became a full-time writer.^[2]

Ramsay was elected the twenty-seventh chairman (2015–2017) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.^[3]

Ramsay died of pneumonia on 18 January 2023 at the age of 82.^[4]

• The Mysterious Marquis (1985)

• The Broken Gate (1994)
• The Dominie's Lassie (1995)
• Butterflies in December (1995)
• The Quality of Mercy (1997)
• Walnut Shell Days (1997)
• Harvest of Courage (1998)
• Never Call It Loving (1998)
• The Wings of Friendship (2001)
• The Feein' Market (2002)
• Lace for a Lady (2002)
• Someday, Somewhere (2003)
• A Way of Forgiving (2004)
• The Stuff of Dreams (2005)
• Rainbow's End (2006)
• Henriqueta's treasure (2008)
• Love Changes Everything (2012)

1. Rich Girl, Poor Girl (2017)
2. The Farm Girl's Dream (2017)
3. A Pinch of Salt (2017)

• Danger by Gaslight (1998)

• Sakura and other stories (2012)