I was on a historical romance kick last week and read three Mary Balogh books in quick succession. I enjoyed this novel so much that I was actually smiling while I read it. Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award. 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. Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. Includes excerpt from Seducing an Angel by Mary Balogh 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. A lie to an old flame forces Margaret Huxtable to accept the irresistible stranger’s offer. 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.

Only desperation could bring Duncan Pennethorne, the infamous Earl of Sheringford, back home after the spectacular scandal that had shocked even the jaded ton. Margaret, the eldest, embarks on the most risqué adventure of her life and agrees to marry the most notorious man in London.… Step into a world of scandal, intrigue, and enthralling passion as New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us into the lives of an extraordinary family: the Huxtables.

At Last Comes Love by Mary Balogh