The vast majority of Balogh's novels have been set in Regency or Georgian England or Wales. Writing career Īs an adult, Balogh discovered the world of the Regency romance as written by Georgette Heyer. She has three children and five grandchildren. She taught high-school English for a number of years, and rose to the level of school principal. There, she met and married her Canadian husband Robert Balogh, a coroner and ambulance driver, and settled in the small prairie town of Kipling, Saskatchewan. She moved to Canada on a two-year teaching contract in 1967 after leaving university. Mary Jenkins was born and raised in Swansea, Wales, daughter of Mildred Double, a homemaker, and Arthur Jenkins, a signwriter and painter. Her historical fiction is set in the Regency era (1811–1820) or the wider Georgian era (1714–1830).īiography Personal life In 1967, she moved to Canada to start a teaching career, married a local coroner and settled in Kipling, Saskatchewan, where she eventually became a school principal.

Yet as she got past his devilish façade and saw the noble heart within, she knew the greatest jeopardy of all, a passion that drove her to risk everything on one perfect month with the improper gentleman who thought love was for fools.Mary Balogh (born Mary Jenkins on 24 March 1944) is a Welsh-Canadian novelist writing historical romance, born and raised in Swansea.

Surely there was nothing more perilous than being the lover of such a man. Jane tried to pretend it was strictly business, an arrangement she was forced to accept in order to conceal a dangerous secret. When he offered to set her up in his London town house, love was the last thing on his mind. She questioned his every move, breached his secrets, touched his soul. Her blue eyes were the sort a man could drown in - were it not for her impudence. But Jane Ingleby was far too bold for her own good. To his astonishment, Tresham found himself hiring the servant as his nurse. In the mêlée, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, was shot.

She raced onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In this captivating novel, Mary Balogh, the premier writer of Regency romance, invites you into a world of scandal and seduction, of glittering high society and intrigue, as an arrogant duke does the unthinkable - he falls in love with his mistress.

More than a Mistress by Mary Balogh