The thing is that Alistair and Stephanie are not only fundamentally different, but have fundamentally different backgrounds and expectations. It didn't here, and that's a tribute to Balogh being able to present her characters so strongly that you understand and sympathize even when you want them to behave differently (i.e. Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award.Ī lot of this story was people talking past each other. She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. She has won numerous awards, including Bestselling Historical of the Year from the Borders Group, and her novel Simply Magic was a finalist in the Quill Awards. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling 'Slightly' sextet and 'Simply' quartet. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. She also enjoys watching tennis and curling.
When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. She married her Canadian husband, Robert Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. From the Paperback edition.Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. And in this unlikely union, Stephanie and Alistair make a welcome discovery-that sometimes it’s possible to marry first, then fall in love. Sure that he’s sullied her name, Alistair offers marriage to make amends. Yet Stephanie Gray, a former governess, has recently come into money and is eager for a proper match with a well-born man. And that’s what he expects to receive when he rescues a seemingly disreputable girl in a colorful bonnet off the side of the road. But could piercingly blue-eyed and well-mannered Francis Kneller turn out to be the most unexpected love of her life? THE PLUMED BONNET Alistair Munro, the Duke of Bridgwater, is looking for love outside the bounds of polite society. Innocent and adrift in a world of beautiful banquets, bejeweled gowns, and snobbish standards, Cora is quickly compromised into a marriage-to a frivolous lord whose interests seem to lie elsewhere. Yet when she gains renown for a daring rescue, she finds herself thrust into high society.
THE FAMOUS HEROINE Cora Downes has beauty, spirit, and money, but no breeding. Beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh spins two classic stories of Regency England-splendid novels of mistaken identity and unmistakable passion, where marriage is only the beginning of true love.
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