Mary Balogh, Author . Delacorte $19.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-33529-4
Fraught with all the misunderstandings and misadventures typical of a Regency-era romance, this heartwarming sequel to Balogh's debut hardcover, More Than a Mistress, is a fun but familiar tale that fans of the period will savor. When Lord...
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Mary Balogh, Author Onyx Books $4.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-40342-1
Balogh's ( The Secret Pearl ) new epic love story is a winner. In 1799 in England, the illegitimate 17-year-old son of an English marquess meets a 15-year-old French countess at a ball; they fall in love but--because of their respective social...
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Mary Balogh, Author Berkley Trade Pub $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-15084-9
Life has taught Lucas Kendrick, Duke of Harndon, that a heart is a decided liability. Betrayed by his brother, rejected by his fiancee, Luke fled to Paris, where he became the most sought-after bachelor in fashionable society. Ten years later, fate...
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Mary Balogh, Author Berkley Trade Pub $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-425-15329-1
After a couple-dozen pages of sluggish narrative, Balogh (Heartless) hits a brisk stride with this romance set in mid-19th century Wales. Once branded the bastard child of the Earl of Wyvern, Geraint Penderyn returns home to Tegfan after a 10-year...
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Mary Balogh, Author Berkley Trade Pub $5.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-15862-3
Balogh (Heartless) brings a twist to her Georgian romance by making the heroine a deaf woman struggling to fit into the rigid English society; but, unfortunately, this intriguing premise is undermined by contrived plotting. As a teenager, Lady Emily
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Mary Balogh, Author Delacorte Press $16.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-33531-7
In her assured hardcover debut, Balogh (One Night for Love) serves up two Regency-era characters determined not to fall in love with each other, despite their shared aesthetic sensibilities, uncontrollable physical attraction and increasingly...
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Mary Balogh. Delacorte, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-34331-2
Regency romance doyenne Balogh (A Secret Affair) pairs a staid young nobleman with a vivacious debutante in this top-notch tale. When the headstrong Lady Angeline Dudley, sister of the wealthy duke of Tresham, is accosted by the rakish Lord Windrow,
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Mary Balogh. Delacorte, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-34332-9
In a strong opening for the Survivor’s Club series from prolific Regency doyenne Balogh (The Secret Mistress), a mismatched couple finds common ground in trauma and survival. When Hugo Emes, Lord Trentham, a resolutely middle-class businessman’s son
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Mary Balogh, Author Severn House Publishers $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4239-8
Miles Ripley, the young, dashing and wealthy earl of Severn, is tired of scheming women (namely his mother and sister) trying to marry him off. Just as he vows to marry a quiet, undemanding woman, the plucky, irrepressible Abigail Gardiner--a...
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Mary Balogh. Dell, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-345-53587-0
Balogh can always be depended on to deliver a beautifully written Regency romance with appealing, unusual characters, and the second in her new Survivors’ Club series (after The Proposal) is no exception. Young Vincent Hunt returned from fighting...
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Mary Balogh. Dell, $7.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-0-345-53606-8
Bestseller Balogh delivers an outstanding third installment (after The Arrangement) of her Survivors’ Club series, in which seven friends recover from physical and mental wounds suffered in the Napoleonic Wars. Sir Benedict Harper has spent six...
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Mary Balogh. Signet, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-46966-3
In Balogh’s Survivor’s Club series, six men and one woman seek recovery from the travails of the Napoleonic wars. Their close friendship and somewhat anachronistic but heartwarming mutual support helps them rebuild their lives. In this often...
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Mary Balogh. Signet, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-46967-0
The fifth Survivor’s Club Regency romance (after Only Enchanting) introduces a fine specimen of Balogh’s trademark wounded heroes: Ralph Stockwood, Earl of Berwick, who returned from war scarred inside and out. Unable to forgive himself for the...
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Mary Balogh. Signet, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-46968-7
The sixth entry in Balogh’s Survivors’ Club series (after Only a Promise) gives Imogen Hayes, Lady Barclay, her highly anticipated story. Imogen is treated as an equal by the war-scarred male members of the Survivors’ Club, a group of friends...
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Mary Balogh. Signet, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-47778-1
Balogh’s warmhearted final Survivors’ Club Regency (after Only a Kiss) finally turns to the compassionate Duke of Stanbrook, who brought six wounded strangers—five men and one woman—into his Cornwall home after their service in the Napoleonic wars...
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Mary Balogh. Signet, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-47779-8
Genre veteran Balogh (Unforgiven) continues to create engaging characters, clever dialogue, and sweet romance in her first Westcotts romance, set in Regency-era London. High society loves nothing more than a good scandal, and the latest is delicious:
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Mary Balogh. Jove, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-47780-4
Balogh follows Someone to Love, in which orphaned Anna Snow discovered she was an earl’s daughter and an heiress, with the deeply emotional riches-to-rags tale of Anna’s half-sister, Camille Westcott, whose loss of status was Anna’s gain. At first...
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Mary Balogh. Berkley Jove, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-58606-4
With her signature voice and steady pace, Balogh crafts a thoughtful, sweet Regency-era love story to follow Someone to Hold. The new Earl of Riverdale, Alexander Westcott, inherited a title and property without the money to support them, but he...
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Mary Balogh. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-58608-8
Balogh (Someone to Wed) continues the Westcott family’s recovery from the reversal of fortune first unveiled in Someone to Love. Lust, loneliness, and love are not merely for the young, as the former Countess of Riverdale, Viola Kingsley, learns...
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Mary Balogh. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-58610-1
Balogh’s emotionally rich fifth Westcott Regency (after Someone to Care) is the best installment yet. Colin Handrich, Baron Hodges, joins the Westcott family for Christmas, where he renews his friendship with Elizabeth, the widowed Lady Overfield....
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Mary Balogh, Author . Perseus/Vanguard $15.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-59315-554-4
Ah, the arranged marriage. Can even the bestselling Balogh (Seducing an Angel
) find anything fresh in this staple of historical romance? The answer, as demonstrated in this breezy tale, is yes. Reginald Mason is a dashing young rake whose...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Delacorte $21.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-33535-5
A titled rogue courts a prim and proper lady in this spirited Regency romance by the deservedly popular Balogh (No Man's Mistress,
etc.). Kit Butler, Viscount Ravensburg, is no gentleman. He has long scandalized the ton
of London with his...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Dell $5.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-440-24104-1
Historical romance maven Balogh (A Summer to Remember, etc.) falls back on the oft-used marriage of convenience formula for her first Bedwyn family installment, but what this whimsical Regency-era romance lacks in originality, it more than makes up...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Dell $5.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-440-24105-8
Sympathetic characters and scalding sexual tension make the second installment in Balogh's Regency-era Bedwyn family series (after Slightly Married) a truly engrossing read. At the novel's outset, Rannulf Bedwyn, a wealthy, devil-may-care...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Dell $5.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-24111-9
Balogh's Bedwyn family trilogy (Slightly Married; Slightly Wicked) concludes in fine style with this exceptionally entertaining Regency-era romance between bold Freyja Bedwyn and the mischievous Joshua Moore. Freyja's adventure begins en...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Dell $5.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-440-24106-5
The newest entry in romance veteran Balogh's Bedwyn family series (Slightly Married
, etc.) takes a serious turn when 18-year-old Morgan, the duke of Bedwyn's youngest sibling, finds herself in the midst of a war zone looking for her brother
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Mary Balogh, Author . Dell $6.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-440-23660-3
Smart, playful and deliciously satisfying, Balogh's newest Regency-era romance takes a popular romance formula—the marriage of convenience—and gives it a creative twist. In the author's previous Bedwyn family installment,...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Delacorte $20 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-33811-0
The long-awaited conclusion to Balogh's Regency-era romance series, focusing on the eccentric Bedwyn family, possesses the same charm and richness of character as her previous books (Slightly Tempted
, etc.), but its plot is slightly more...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Delacorte $22 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-33822-6
What happens when a haughty, rakish aristocrat and a prim, beautiful schoolteacher are stranded in a deserted country inn together during a snowstorm? They fall in love, of course. But as all this takes place in fewer than 100 pages—and as...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Delacorte $22 (311p) ISBN 978-0-385-33883-7
With more than her usual panache, Balogh returns to Regency England (Simply Unforgettable
) for a satisfying adult love story. Twenty-nine-year-old beauty Anne Jewell is an independent woman: an unwed mother who has found contentment, if not...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Delacorte $22 (326p) ISBN 978-0-385-33823-3
The third in Balogh's Simply series of Regency romances, centered on a group of friends who teach at a private girls' school in Bath, is absorbing and appealing. Susanna Osbourne is one of the teachers at Miss Martin's School for Girls,...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Delacorte $22 (343p) ISBN 978-0-385-33824-0
Balogh’s lovely Regency series centering on Miss Martin’s School for Girls closes with the story of founder and headmistress Claudia Martin, an “aging spinster” past 30 who does not see marriage in her future. Two former...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Dell $6.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-440-24422-6
Romance queen Balogh (Simply Perfect
) delivers a savory and passionate Regency to launch a series featuring three smalltown sisters. Handsome Elliot Wallace, Viscount Lyngate, discovers that he has become guardian to the newly titled Stephen, earl...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Delacorte $22 (325p) ISBN 978-0-385-34105-9
Balogh continues her chronicle of the Huxtable family in this so-so Regency. Stephen Huxtable, earl of Merton, is dashing, wealthy and unattached, which makes him a juicy target for widow Cassandra Belmont, but she soon learns that heartless...
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Mary Balogh, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-440-22600-0
Bestselling author Balogh (The Last Waltz) bursts the bounds of genre in this emotionally complex Regency. Enchanting and lovely Lily Doyle, a sergeant's daughter, is hurriedly married to Neville Wyatt, Major Lord Newbury, in Portugal, after her...
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Mary Balogh, Author . Delacorte $24 (340p) ISBN 978-0-385-34330-5
Balogh's final entry in the Huxtable family saga focuses on enigmatic cousin Constantine, long the most maligned of the Huxtables. Hannah, widowed duchess of Dunbarton, has set her sights on Constantine as the ideal lover—a handsome man...
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Mary Balogh, read by Rosalyn Landor. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-1854-9
When his duel is interrupted by the shriek of a maidservant, Jocelyn Dudley, duke of Tresham, is shot in the leg. As punishment for her disruptive outburst, Jane Ingleby is forced to nurse the ill-tempered Tresham back to health. But impudent and...
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Mary Balogh, Colleen Gleason, Susan Krinard, and Janet Mullany, HQN, $14.95 paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-373-77501-9
Four romance novellas put a paranormal gloss on elements from Austen's work. Bestseller Balogh (A Precious Jewel) turns in the plodding "Almost Persuaded," wherein Jane Everett and Capt. Robert Mitford realize they're reincarnated soul mates....
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Mary Balagh, Author, Mary Balogh, Author Jove Books $5.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-12001-1
Although Balogh's (Heartless) seamless, fairy-tale Regency lacks some of the complexity and period detail of her previous books, it nonetheless engages the reader with sharply drawn, likable characters. Lady Catherine Winsmore, a heroine of quiet...
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Mary Balogh. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-984802-37-8
A false impression hides the answer to a woman’s dreams in Balogh’s layered sixth Westcott Regency (after Someone to Trust). Abigail Westcott, raised in the nobility, had been disgraced on the discovery that her parents’ marriage was illegal, but...
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Mary Balogh. Berkley, $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-593-09972-8
The charming seventh Westcott regency (after Someone to Honor) delights with an unconventional, older heroine. Lady Matilda Westcott, now in her mid-50s, has accepted her role as the quiet spinster daughter of the Dowager Countess of Riverdale. When,
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Mary Balogh. Berkley, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-19861-2
The reluctant heir to an earldom discovers love with the sister of a duke in the pitch-perfect eighth romance of Balogh’s Westcott Regency series (after Someone to Remember). At the “old” age of 25, Jessica Archer, sister of the Duke of Netherby,...
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Mary Balogh. Berkley, $7.99 mass market (400p) ISBN 978-1-984802-41-5
Two people find the cure for loneliness in each other in Balogh's enchanting eighth Westcott Regency romance (after Someone to Romance). Harry Westcott was once the Earl of Riverdale, but he lost his title when his mother discovered that her husband
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Mary Balogh. Berkley, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-33529-1
Bestseller Balogh keeps her Wescott Family Regency series going strong with a 10th installment (after Someone to Cherish) that is perhaps the best yet. Justin Wiley and his younger half-sister, Maria, were close as children, but haven’t seen each...
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Mary Balogh. Berkley, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-43812-1
Bestseller Balogh (the Westcott series) launches her Ravenswood series with a stunningly emotional Regency romance. Devlin Ware, heir to the Earl of Stratton, appears to come from the perfect family. Every summer, his parents and siblings host a...
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Mary Balogh. Berkley, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-43815-2
Bestseller Balogh’s memorable second Ravenswood Regency romance (after Remember Love) finds 22-year-old Philippa Ware, eldest daughter of the deceased Earl of Stratton, finally making her London debut. Her entrance into society was delayed by...
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Mary Balogh. Berkley, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-63838-5
Bestseller Balogh again demonstrates her skill for writing nuanced individuals who find fulfillment as a couple in her satisfying third Ravenswood historical romance (after Remember Me). The extended Ware family congregates in Hampshire to enjoy a...
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