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.
Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. Her works include The Wood Nymph (1986), Christmas Promise (1992), The Plumed Bonnet (1996) and Famous Heroine (1996). Since then, she has written more than 60 novels and has received a lifetime achievement award for her work in the genre of historical romance. In 1985, her first novel, A Masked Deception, was published and she won the Romantic Times Award for best new Regency writer. From 1967 to 1988 she taught high school English in Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming principal of her school in 1982. with honors from the University of Wales in 1965. About The Author: Mary Balogh was born in Swansea, Wales, on March 24, 1944. And as passion slowly ignites, two people marrying for all the wrong reasons are discovering the joys of seduction - and awaiting the exquisite pleasure of what comes after. Quickly she issues an ultimatum: if Duncan wants her, he must woo her. But once she discovers who he really is, it's too late - she's already betrothed to the wickedly sensual rakehell. Forced to wed in fifteen days or be cut off without a penny, Duncan chooses the one woman in London in frantic need of a husband: Margaret Huxtable.A lie to an old flame forces Margaret to accept the irresistible stranger's offer. Only desperation could bring Duncan Pennethorne, the infamous Earl of Sheringford, back home after the spectacular scandal that had shocked even the jaded ton.
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