

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. But Grace did not tell the whole truth about the handsome lord who betrayed her-and now the one thing she’s kept from Perry threatens to destroy her last chance at true love. Even more nobly, he did not withdraw his affection after she confessed to a youthful folly that had compromised her virtue. After all, the gallant gentleman rescued her from poverty by making her his bride. Grace Howard has every reason to be devoted to Sir Peregrine Lampman. But after Charity agrees to this mockery of matrimony, she soon discovers a startling She has fallen for Anthony, and breaking their marriage vows may also break her heart. In exchange, Charity’s family will receive the money they desperately need. The arrogant aristocrat has made it painfully clear what he a wife who will enrage the father he despises and then disappear from his life. Miss Charity Duncan has no illusions about Lord Anthony Earheart’s proposal. But Grace did not tell the whole truth about the handsome lord who betrayed her-and now the one thing she’s kept from Perry threatens to destroy her last chance at true love.In two classic tales of Regency-era romance from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh, the vagaries of love have a way of challenging the most convenient arrangements.

But after Charity agrees to this mockery of matrimony, she soon discovers a startling fact: She has fallen for Anthony, and breaking their marriage vows may also break her heart. The arrogant aristocrat has made it painfully clear what he wants: a wife who will enrage the father he despises and then disappear from his life.

In two classic tales of Regency-era romance from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh, the vagaries of love have a way of challenging the most convenient arrangements.
