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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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SOMEONE TO CARE, Book 9 in the Westcott Series, Harry’s s...

SOMEONE TO CARE, Book 9 in the Westcott Series, Harry’s story, will be out on Tuesday, June 29. See above for purchase links.

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“I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction
tags: hurt, respect
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“One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.”
― Mary Balogh, Seducing an Angel
tags: betrayal, learning, love
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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
tags: humor, mary-balogh, romance, slightly, wicked
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Polls

Best Romance

An Echo in the Bone (Outlander, #7)
 
  444 votes 24.2%

Destined for an Early Grave (Night Huntress, #4)
 
  184 votes 10.0%

Vision in White (Bride Quartet, #1)
 
  179 votes 9.8%

What I Did for Love (Wynette, Texas, #4)
 
  160 votes 8.7%

Kiss of a Demon King (Immortals After Dark #7)
 
  151 votes 8.2%

Black Hills
 
  150 votes 8.2%

What Happens in London (Bevelstoke, #2)
 
  139 votes 7.6%

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

Smooth Talking Stranger (Travises, #3)
 
  92 votes 5.0%

Silent on the Moor (Lady Julia Grey, #3)
 
  83 votes 4.5%

First Comes Marriage (Huxtable Quintet #1)
 
  70 votes 3.8%

Dark of Night (Troubleshooters, #14)
 
  49 votes 2.7%

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