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Mary Balogh


Born
in Swansea, Wales, The United Kingdom
March 24, 1944

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Genre
Romance, Historical Fiction


Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. She married her Canadian husband, Robert Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. She also enjoys watching tennis and curling.

Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the ...more

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Congratulations to BRANDY HARTLEY, winner of a signed copy of THE TEMPORARY WIFE/A PROMISE OF SPRING in my blog contest this week.

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The Proposal The Arrangement The Escape Only Enchanting Only a Promise Only a Kiss Only Beloved
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Someone to Love Someone to Hold Someone to Wed Someone to Care Someone to Trust Someone to Honor Someone to Romance
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Quotes by Mary Balogh

“I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction
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“One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.”
― Mary Balogh, Seducing an Angel
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“She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.”
― Mary Balogh, Slightly Wicked
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Best Romance

An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)
 
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  186 votes 10.0%

Vision in White (Bride Quartet, #1)
 
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What I Did for Love (Wynette, Texas, #4)
 
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Kiss of a Demon King (Immortals After Dark #7)
 
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Black Hills
 
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What Happens in London (Bevelstoke, #2)
 
  144 votes 7.7%

Dream Warrior (Dream-Hunter #4; Dark-Hunter #17)
 
  132 votes 7.1%

Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)
 
  95 votes 5.1%

Silent on the Moor (Lady Julia Grey, #3)
 
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First Comes Marriage (Huxtable Quintet #1)
 
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