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Mary Balogh
  • Bibliography:
    127 Books (16 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1985
  • Latest Book:
    January 2024
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About the Author

Mary Jenkins was born on 24 March 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high-school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. She married her Canadian husband, Robert Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. She also enjoys watching tennis and curling.

Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling Slightly sextet and Simply quartet. 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.

Full Series List in Order

Bedwyn Saga

0.1 - One Night for Love (Aug-1999)
0.2 - A Summer to Remember (Jul-2002)
1 - Slightly Married (Apr-2003)
2 - Slightly Wicked (May-2003)
3 - Slightly Scandalous (Jun-2003)
4 - Slightly Tempted (Jan-2004)
5 - Slightly Sinful (May-2004)
6 - Slightly Dangerous (Jun-2004)
6.5 - Another Dream (Apr-2016)

Courting Julia Series (Sullivan)

1 - Courting Julia (Nov-1993)
2 - Dancing With Clara (Feb-1994)
3 - Tempting Harriet (May-1994)

Denning-Mainwaring

1 - A Chance Encounter (Dec-1985)
2 - The Wood Nymph (Jan-1987)

Georgian

1 - Heartless (Oct-1995)
2 - Silent Melody (Aug-1997)

Horsemen

1 - Indiscreet (Jan-1997)
2 - Unforgiven (Jan-1998)
3 - Irresistible (Oct-1998)

Huxtable Quintet

1 - First Comes Marriage (Feb-2009)
2 - Then Comes Seduction (Mar-2009)
3 - At Last Comes Love (Apr-2009)
4 - Seducing an Angel (May-2009)
5 - A Secret Affair (May-2010)

Mistress

1 - More Than a Mistress (Sep-2000)
2 - No Man's Mistress (Aug-2001)
2.5 - Now a Bride (Jun-2011)
3 - The Secret Mistress (Jul-2011)

Ravenswood

1 - Remember Love (Jul-2022)
2 - Remember Me (Jun-2023)
3 - Always Remember (Jan-2024)

Related

1 - Red Rose (Mar-1986)
2 - Gentle Conquest (Dec-1987)

Simply

1 - Simply Unforgettable (Apr-2005)
2 - Simply Love (Aug-2006)
3 - Simply Magic (Apr-2007)
4 - Simply Perfect (Apr-2008)
4.5 - Another Dream (Apr-2016)

Stapleton-Downes

1 - The Ideal Wife (Oct-1991)
2 - A Precious Jewel (Jun-1993)
3 - Dark Angel (Aug-1994)
4 - Lord Carew's Bride (Jun-1995)
5 - The Famous Heroine (Feb-1996)
6 - The Plumed Bonnet (Sep-1996)
7 - A Christmas Bride (Nov-1997)

Stewart-Frazer

1 - The First Snowdrop (Sep-1986)
2 - Christmas Belle (Nov-1994)

Survivors' Club

1 - The Proposal (May-2012)
1.5 - The Suitor: A Novella (Jul-2013)
2 - The Arrangement (Sep-2013)
3 - The Escape (Jul-2014)
4 - Only Enchanting (Nov-2014)
5 - Only a Promise (Jun-2015)
6 - Only a Kiss (Sep-2015)
7 - Only Beloved (May-2016)

Waite

1 - The Trysting Place (Jun-1986)
2 - A Counterfeit Betrothal (Jun-1992)
3 - The Notorious Rake (Sep-1992)

Web

1 - The Gilded Web (Dec-1989)
2 - A Promise of Spring (Feb-1990)
3 - Web of Love (Apr-1990)
4 - The Devil's Web (Aug-1990)

Westcott

1 - Someone to Love (Nov-2016)
2 - Someone to Hold (Feb-2017)
3 - Someone to Wed (Nov-2017)
4 - Someone to Care (May-2018)
5 - Someone to Trust (Dec-2018)
6 - Someone to Honor (Jul-2019)
6.5 - Someone to Remember: A Novella (Nov-2019)
7 - Someone to Romance (Aug-2020)
8 - Someone to Cherish (Jul-2021)
9 - Someone Perfect (Dec-2021)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

Lord Carew's Bride (Jun-1995)
Simply Love (Aug-2006)

Jane Austen's Persuasion

Almost Persuaded (Oct-2010)

Book List in Order: 127 titles



  • THE RIVALS The handsome, dashing, wealthy Richard Adair, the seventh Earl of Brampton, was caught in a most devilishly difficult tug-of-war. Claiming his hand was shy and demure Margaret Wells, who became his bride in an icily arranged marriage de...



  • HENRY WAS NO GENTLEMAN In fact, Henry was not a man at all. Henry was a young lady, if you could call any female a lady who refused to go by her proper name of Henrietta but preferred her most unsuitable tomboyish nickname. But now Henry had to be...



  • THE MOCKING MARQUIS Miss Elizabeth Rossiter was finished with love forever - after a disastrous episode that had left her with a broken heart and a reputation that would be ruined should her scandalous secret be revealed. She had sought safety by ...



  • THE SINGLE-MINDED MISS In the whirl of the London marriage mart, Miss Rosalind Dacey stood alone. While other young ladies used all their wiles to snare a husband, Rosalind did the reverse. Single she was and single she would remain. If she had an...



  • A MOST DANGEROUS GAME Lady Felicity Wren came to London for one purpose. After a marriage in name only to a man old enough to be her father, she was now a young, beautiful and wealthy widow; free at last to enjoy the happiness that her misallianc...



  • The Abandoned Bride The handsome, elegant Alexander Stewart, Viscount Merrick, wed young and innocent Miss Anne Parrish in haste--his hand forced by circumstance and honor. But now his duty was done-and it was Anne who had to repent at leisure. Me...



  • HOW COULD SHE LOVE A MAN WHOM SHE COULD ONLY DESPISE? How could Lady Helen Wade possibly love a gentleman like William Mainwaring, handsome and wealthy as he might be? How could she love this object of her two older sisters' matrimonial designs? ...



  • THE ROGUE'S RETURN Miss Rebecca Shaw had lost her heart once in her young life -- lost it and had it broken. At last it had mended -- mended enough for her to say yes when the handsome, high-minded young Reverend Phillip Everett asked her ...



  • THE BASHFUL BRIDEGROOM It should have been the perfect marriage for beautiful Georgiana Burton. The husband her parents had picked for her, Lord Ralph Middleton, Earl of Chartleigh, was wealthy, handsome, noble, and kind. Unfortunately, he did not...






  • PASSION BEFORE PRIDE Theirs should have been the perfect marriage. Sarah was as wildly in love with the Duke of Cranwell as he was with her...until, on their wedding night, Sarah was forced to reveal the secret of her past. And that, midst great p...



  • DOING THE UNTHINKABLE Miss Jane Matthews could not believe this was happening. Michael Templeton, Viscount Fairfax, the handsomest lord in the realm and the catch of the London marriage mart, was actually proposing to her and not to her exquis...



  • THE ASTONISHED EARL The Earl of Rutherford was handsome, charming, rich, generous, and as adept at giving pleasure as he was avid in pursuing it. No wonder, then, that when he marked Miss Jessica Moore as the latest in his endless string of conque...



  • BETWEEN TWO FIRES Beautiful young widow Katherine Mannering vowed that no man would ever possess her. Her brief but brutal forced marriage left her with profound distaste for what went by the name of love. But that was before she met Nichola...



  • THE IMPOSSIBLE MR. GOWER Lady Rachel Palmer was quite used to men falling helplessly in love with her. Every gentleman in aristocratic society, including her devoted fiance, Lord Algernon Rivers, fell a willing victim to Rachel's dazzling beauty a...



  • LOVE WAS NOT PART OF HER MARRIAGE BARGAIN Miss Arabella Wilson knew perfectly well that the handsome, dashing Lord Geoffrey Astor was marrying her only out of a sense of duty. She knew she could be only grateful to this man who so generously offe...



  • SISTER KNOWS BEST Lady Daisy Morrison, at twenty-five, considered herself too old to marry. But she vowed that her young sister Rose would achieve the ultimate in wedded bliss. Certainly Rose had everything in her favor. Stunning beauty. Vast w...



  • Here are five all-new stories of Christmas by the highly acclaimed authors you love to read all year 'round. These heartwarming holiday tales touch on all the great themes of the season -- joyful homecomings, bittersweet reunions, renewals of the spi...



  • TWOFOLD TEMPTATION Dark-haired and beautiful Miss Alexandra Purnell had a problem that most young ladies would have adored. Not one but two handsome lords had offered her marriage - and Alexandra had only to choose between distinguished Edmund Rai...



  • THE PAST IMPERFECT Lovely Grace Howard had every reason to be devoted to Sir Perry Lampman. This wealthy and gallant gentleman rescued her from poverty by making her his bride. Even more nobly, he did not withdraw his proposal or his affection whe...






  • LOVE -- IN THE PRESENT TENSE Enchanting young Ellen Simpson had been deeply in love with her husband Charles. Though many years older, he was everything she wanted in a husband -- strong, gentle, kind, good-humored, and warmly devoted. After hi...



  • FAIR GAME It was well known that Diana Ingram was as impeccably virtuous as she was exquisitely beautiful. It was just as well known that the handsome and charming Marquess of Kenwood was the most insatiable and successful seducer in all of aristo...



  • REKINDLED DESIRE The last time Madeline Raine had seen James Purnell, she had been but a chit of a girl, and at his mercy. Purnell had held her helpless in his arms - but protectively above the abyss of her own dangerous hunger for him. He had...



  • THE DEFIANT DAUGHTER Lovely young Miss Josephine Middleton might be an earl's daughter, but she had no desire to be a duke's wife. Not when the duke was the Duke of Mitford, known to her as a lustful libertine who would be a horror of a husband. ...



  • This warm and delightful collection brings together five all-new stories of Christmas by some of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Written especially for the new edition, these delightful tales capture the spirit of Christmas ri...



  • The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......



  • A Friend In Need Lovely young widow Alice Penhallow and handsome Piers Westhaven, the future Lord Berringer, were ideal friends. Piers provided Alice with a charming companion. Alice offered Piers understanding and advice he sought a suitable wif...



  • FAIR EXCHANGE Young and beautiful Lady Rosamund Hunter had known the tenderness of love in her all-too-brief marriage to a much older, kind and gentle husband. Yet she had never been touched by the fires of the heart. The handsome dashing Earl...



  • PASSION FLOWER Fleur. That was her middle name. The name she told the man to whom she sold herself out of desperate want. But her full name was Isabella Fleur Bradshaw, gently born and brutally expelled from her sheltered life. His name was Adam ...



  • The Perplexing Proposal The Earl of Severn's question was simple enough. Would Miss Abigail Gardiner agree to become his wife? But a far more difficult question was why the most handsome and wealthy lord in London, with a ravishing mistress and...






  • Bringing together five all-new Christmas stories by some of the most highly acclaimed Regency authors, this rich collection celebrates the joys and traditions of the holiday season. These are stories that capture the essence of Christmas - the genero...



  • His Vengeance Was Sweet Judith Easton knew that even the spirit of Christmas wouldn't stop the Marquess of Denhigh from settling the score with her. For the beautiful young widow had injured Denhigh's rigid pride years ago by jilting him ...



  • Spirited ladies...dashing gentlemen ... notorious rakes...scandalous lovers ... all the romance and intrigue of St. Valentine's Day in an exquisitely beautiful collection of stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. He...



  • Here is a wondrous new collection of original stories from five acclaimed Regency authors. Each tale celebrates the sweetness and excitement of a summer romance -- as handsome lords, bewitching ladies, and devilish rogues come together in revelry ...



  • The Tender Trap Lady Sophia Bryant had no intention of ever marrying. However, her own parents had been estranged for some fourteen years, and her one desire was to bring them together again in love. Surely, if she were to announce her betrothal -...



  • "WHEN THE MOON IS FULL, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN..." Come with us on five journeys of the heart, where romance weaves its magic spell and things are not always as they seem. From some of the most beloved authors of romantic fiction come the tales of en...



  • The Lady and the Libertine Lord Edmund Waite was everything that Lady Mary Gregg despised in a man. He was lewd, lascivious, mocking---the most notorious and successful rake in the realm. Happily, Mary had nothing to fear from this lord of liberti...



  • THEY PLAYED A GAME OF DECEPTION -- BUT THERE WAS NO DISGUISING THEIR DESIRE Jeanne Morrisette, the daughter of a French count, met Robert Blake when she was fifteen and he was the seventeen-year-old illegitimate son of an English lord. When they...



  • The holiday spirit comes alive in this wondrous new collection of five enchanting Christmas stories, written by some of the most beloved Regency authors. Filled with joyous Yuletide celebrations and heartwarming romance, this evocative, richly drawn ...



  • THE BOUGHT BRIDEGROOM Eleanor Transome found her father's wealth a dubious blessing, for he was determined that she wed a nobleman. Lord Randolph Falloden, on the brink of ruin, could not resist the lure of cold cash, despite his passionate al...






  • Love and magic are in the air on St. Valentine's Day, so celebrate this most romantic of holidays with five extraordinarily talented Regency authors. Each story will transport you to a time when St. Valentine's Day was full of pageantry, intrigue, an...



  • SHE COULD NOT FORGIVE HIM - OR FORGET HIM Beautiful Lady Elizabeth Ward had been young and innocent when she wed the man she loved, Christopher Atwell. She thought his love matched hers - until she found him in the arms of another, learned of his ...



  • WHEN THEY'RE BAD... THEY'RE BETTER Open the pages of this superb book and enter the world of the bad boys of romance. Make a date with a bevy of colorful rakes and devilish rogues in five exquisitely sexy stories by some of the most beloved, highly ...



  • Luck is a Lady Once Miss Priscilla Wentworth had been a well-bred young lady. That was before family tragedy left her without shelter from poverty and want. Now Priscilla supposed she should count herself lucky that a gentleman like Sir Gerald Sta...



  • YOU'LL BE MOONSTRUCK This mesmerizing collection of supernatural love stories will leave you breathless as it explores a side of love that comes out only after dark. Here, from some of the most beloved and highly acclaimed authors of romantic fict...



  • This exciting collection of five new Christmas stories, written by some of the most highly acclaimed Regency authors, brims with the romance and joy of the holiday season. Each story captures the essence of the Yuletide--its spirit and festivities, i...



  • A Swarm of Suitors Miss Julia Maynard never dreamed that she might be the most passionately pursued prize in the Marriage Mart. But then her step-grandfather died. And his legacy drew suitors to her like bees to honey. She could wed the very f...



  • A Lady Without Illusions Miss Clara Danford had no illusions about Frederick Sullivan. She knew that this magnificently handsome gentleman was a rake whose women were legion and whose gambling debts were staggering. She also knew why he wished to ...



  • ONE MAN HAUNTED HER PAST . . . Her beautiful eyes flashing with hate, Rebecca faced Lord David Tavistock. He had come back, wounded but still vibrantly, sensually alive, from the Crimean War. Julian Cardwell, her sweet, gentle bridegroom -- and Da...



  • The Second Seduction She had resisted scandalous temptation once before. That was six years ago, but it seemed like six centuries. She was no longer young, innocent, and impoverished Miss Harriet Pope. She was Lady Harriet Wingham, beautiful and w...






  • The Scandalous Suitor Miss Jennifer Winward was engaged to be wed. Even better, her husband-to-be was the dazzlingly handsome, impeccably upright Lord Lionel Kersey, the man of her dreams since girlhood. But Jennifer had never dreamed that a man l...



  • Bringing together five all-new Valentine's Day stories by some of the most extraordinarily talented and highly acclaimed Regency authors, this charming collection celebrates the passion and magic of the most romantic day of the year. Mary Balogh pain...



  • Ring in the season with these festive Regency stories from five highly acclaimed authors. Mary Balogh tells of a lonely schoolmistress who celebrates Christmas for the first time and receives the best gift of all--love. Sandra Heath shows us the beau...



  • Once they were lovers. Isabella was a fledgling actress, struggling to survive. Jack Frazer was a youth as innocent as he was handsome, consumed by love for this girl whom he could never make his wife. Their year together was bliss; their parting...



  • Sian Jones had been to Britain's finest schools, but manners and French lessons did not erase the stigma of being a lord's illegitimate daughter. Perhaps she would have been content among Welsh ironworkers, her mother's people, had not A...



  • LOVE IN BLOOM Celebrate the arrival of spring with a bouquet of exquisite stories by five acclaimed authors of romantic fiction. Brimming with the richness and delicate beauty of the season's first flower, this wondrous collection reveals blossomi...



  • WHEN THEY'RE BAD ...THEY RE BETTER They're shameless, seductive, and steal your heart with a smile. Now these irresistible rogues and rakes, rebels and renegades, are captured in five all new, deliciously sexy stories by America's favorite authors...



  • Her Heart's Dilemma Samantha Newman's heart skipped a beat when she found herself dancing with the irresistibly handsome and notorious Earl of Rushford. This ruthless libertine, who had betrayed Samantha six years ago, was waltzing back in...



  • Lucas Kendrick, the Duke of Harndon, had never met a woman like Lady Anna Marlowe. For years he had refused to feel love, but he was captivated by Anna's beauty and her rustic innocence. Anna's heart raced whenever she was around Lucas. After...



  • When a mysterious old lady and her young grandson offer their cottage to an estranged couple who got lost during a blizzard, it's a gift that will last a lifetime....



  • Make your Christmas merry with these delightful stories from some of the most wonderfully talented Regency authors. Mary Balogh tells of three orphans who bring together their estranged aunt and uncle for the holidays. Jo Beverley spins an intriguing...



  • Imagine a book - a love story - so hauntingly romantic, so emotionally powerful that it changes the lives of all who read it. Eleven of the greatest romance writers in the world have envisioned such a tale and brought it to life, creating a heartfelt...



  • The Uncommon Commoner Miss Cora Downes was only a merchant's daughter. But when she saved a duke's son from drowning, her reward was entry into London high society. Cora had a style of beauty and mode of manners that made her a fish out of water i...



  • Once branded the bastard child of the Earl of Wyvern, Geraint Penderyn returns home to Tegfan after a 10-year absence to find toll gates across public roads and many of his farmers living in squalor. As a ragged impoverished boy, he had been one with...



  • A bewitching sapphire engagement ring leads a skittish groom to Regency Wales -- where he learns there is no love like the present......



  • DECEIVING THE DUKE There was no reason for a lord as handsome and high and mighty as the Duke of Bridgewater even to glance at a humble vicar's daughter like Miss Stephanie Gray. No reason except the Duke was in need of amorous amusement, and ...



  • For your holiday pleasure, five star storytellers serve up their most delicious recipes for romance. MARY BALOGH tells of lost love found when a betrayed beauty and a jealous lord learn how hard it is to resist each other. SANDRA HEATH stirs up ember...



  • A beautiful, young widow seemed like easy prey for the Viscount Rawleigh. In the country visiting his twin brother, Rex longed for a little diversion. But Catherine Winters was a lady of virtue, and she roundly rejected his improper proposal to becom...



  • The Pernicious Proposal Miss Charity Duncan had no illusions when she said yes to the marriage proposal of Lord Anthony Earheart. This arrogant aristocrat made it painfully clear what he wanted of her. Would Charity agree to be the wife he needed ...



  • Lady Emily Marlowe was beautiful, wild, and unspoiled. She could not hear or speak, though she listened with her eyes and answered with her smile. She was betrothed to a man who would have her as a pretty possession, a captive listener. But there was...



  • Hark, the herald angels sing as five of Signet's favorite Regency authors bring you a melodious collection of stories to make the season even brighter. Lush with the magic of the holiday, the stories in this Christmas Regency collection capture the t...



  • The Wrong Lady At six-and-thirty, the very wealthy Edgar Downes had finally decided to take a bride. Although not to the manner born, Edgar had promised his aging father that he would wed a titled lady by Christmas. Edgar came to London to review ...



  • Moira Hayes hadn't seen Kenneth Woodfall in nearly eight years. Nor did she want to see this man who stirred such feelings of anger in her. After all, their families had been rivals since their great-grandfathers' day. And he was the reason- though i...



  • On the eve of her twenty-first birthday ball, Cassandra would finally be free. Free from mourning her father's death, and free to begin a new life as Countess of Worthing. Cass had no intention of marrying--not yet. Instead, she planned to rule h...



  • Sophia Armitage was a friend, indeed. She had agreed to help Sir Nathaniel Gascoigne find a husband for his cousin Lavinia in the glittering city of London -- only half hoping that she'd find one herself. Sophia knew the odds were against her. M...



  • A Bride to Be Lady Christina was still in mourning, though it had been well over a year. And while she hadn't loved her late husband, she had grown accustomed to his money and his Puritan ways. But all this would change with the arrival of the...



  • Three timeless romances to treasure this holiday season 'TIS THE SEASON FOR FALLING IN LOVE... A Handful of Gold by Mary Balogh Not only is Julian Dare dashing and wealthy, but he's the heir to an earldom. So what do you get a man who...



  • IT WAS A PERFECT MORNING IN MAY... Neville Wyatt, Earl of Kilbourne, awaited his bride at the altar--when a ragged beggar woman raced down the aisle instead. The cream of the ton saw him stare, shocked, then declare that this was his wife! One nig...



  • She raced onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In the melee, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, was shot. To his astonishment, Tresham found himself hiring the servant as his nurse. Jane Ingleby was far too bold for her own good. Her blue eyes we...



  • Ferdinand Dudley is accustomed to getting what he wants...that is, until he appears at the door of Pinewood Manor, attempting to claim his rightful estate, and is met by the bewitching fury of Lady Viola Thornhill. She refuses to cede him the home sh...



  • Kit Butler is cool, dangerous, one of London's most infamous bachelors--marriage is the last thing on his mind. But Kit's family has other plans. Desperate to thwart his father's matchmaking, Kit needs a bride ... fast. Enter Miss Lauren Edgeworth......



  • Meet the Bedwyns...six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality...Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and ...



  • Meet the Bedwyns...six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality...Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and ...



  • Meet the Bedwyns...six brothers and sisters-- men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...a...



  • A Family Christmas brings together a couple estranged since just after their arranged marriage the year before, and gives them the perfect chance to start over....



  • Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and...



  • Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality....Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and ...



  • Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality.... Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal... an...



  • New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh invites us into an intoxicating world--a select academy for young ladies--and introduces two unlikely lovers: a truly marvelous heroine, music teacher Frances Allard, and the man who seduces her with a pa...



  • New York Times bestselling author May Balogh returns to the elegance and sensuality of Regency England, weaving a captivating tale of four remarkable women--friends and teachers at the exclusive Miss Martin's School for Girls.... Anne first spied ...



  • The New York Times bestselling author of Simply Love delivers a breathtaking novel set in Regency England amid the lives and passions of four teachers at Miss Martin's School for Girls. . . . On a splendid afternoon Susanna Osbourne is introduced ...



  • Against the seductive backdrop of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author May Balogh sweeps us into the sensual, enthralling world of four teachers at an elite academy for young ladies. As headmistress of Miss Martin's School for Gi...



  • It Happened One Night . . . and nothing was ever the same again! Once upon a time, four superstar storytellers--New York Times bestselling authors Stephanie Laurens and Mary Balogh, along with Jacquie D'Alessandro and Candice Hern--came up with a ...



  • Against the scandal and seduction of Regency England, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh introduces an extraordinary family--the fiery, sensual Huxtables. Vanessa is the second daughter, proud and daring, a young widow who has her own reas...



  • New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us back in time to an age of scandal and glittering society--and brings to life an extraordinary family: the daring, passionate Huxtables. Katherine, the youngest sister--and society's most ravishi...



  • 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. Margaret, the eldest, embarks on the most risque adventure of her lif...



  • He is to be wealthy, wellborn, and want her more than he wants any other woman. Those are the conditions that must be met by the man Cassandra Belmont will choose as her lover. Marriage is out of the question for the scandalous widow who must now bar...



  • From New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh comes a classic historical tale that sizzles with romance and unforgettable drama. Reginald Mason is wealthy, refined, and, by all accounts, a gentleman. However, he is not a gentleman by birth, a f...



  • Born a commoner, Hannah Reid has been Duchess of Dunbarton since she was nineteen years old. Now her husband is dead and, more beautiful than ever at thirty, Hannah has her freedom at last: To the shock of a conventional friend, she announces her int...



  • But even if the whole world was against them, it would not matter. They were together -- again. And this time they would remain together. Until death do them part and, of course, long after that. What if Austen had believed in reincarnation and va...



  • We asked our readers what story they would most like to see from four bestselling authors. They responded . . . A handsome hero returns from war, battle-scarred and world-weary. But family duty calls and he must find a bride. A young lady facin...



  • Now a Bride is what fans of New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh’s Mistress series have been clamoring for: more passion and more drama featuring the Dudley siblings. In anticipation of the enticing third book in the Mistress trilogy, ...



  • While Lady Angeline Dudley's pedigree dictates that she must land a titled gentleman, the irrepressible beauty longs for a simple, ordinary suitor. So when Edward Ailsbury, the new Earl of Heyward, defends her honor with unmatched civility, Angeline ...



  • Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy, especially since a freak accident took her husband much too soon. Content in a quiet life with friends and family, the young widow has no desire to marry again. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoop...



  • Mary Balogh’s charming and warm-hearted eBook original short story is a testament to the steadfast devotion of true love, as a young miss on the marriage mart cleverly plots to claim her one and only. If circumstances were different, Philippa D...



  • A mesmerizing story of passionate awakening and redemption, Mary Balogh's new novel unites a war hero consigned to darkness with a remarkable woman who finds her own salvation by showing him the light of love. Desperate to escape his mother's matc...



  • In this poignant novel of longing and salvation, a hopeful widow and a resilient war hero discover the promise of love’s magic and new beginnings. After surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper is struggling to move on, his body and s...



  • The Survivors' Club: Six men and one woman, all wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendship forged during their recovery at Penderris Hall in Cornwall. Now, in the fourth novel of the Survivors' Club series, Flavian, Viscount Ponsonby, h...



  • The Survivors' Club: Six men and one woman, all wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendship forged during their recovery at Penderris Hall in Cornwall. Now, for one of them, striking a most unusual bargain will change his life forever.... Ra...



  • The Survivors’ Club: Six men and one woman, injured in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendships forged in steel and loyalty. But for one, her trials are not over.... Since witnessing the death of her husband during the wars, Imogen, Lady Barclay, ...



  • CHRISTMAS GIFTS brings together three previously published and long out-of-print novellas, each on the theme of Christmas gifts that will last forever because the gift, in essence, is love. In "The Best Christmas Ever" a boisterous house ...



  • CHRISTMAS MIRACLES brings together three previously published and long out-of-print novellas, each of which demonstrates how the wonder of the season can bring together two would-be lovers or two estranged lovers and create a bond between them that w...



  • In Another Dream, by Mary Balogh, Miss Eleanor Thompson has found satisfaction as the director of a respected school for girls. The life of a dedicated educator offers many rewards and much meaning -- but also more loneliness than Eleanor anticipated...



  • From the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Only a Kiss and Only a Promise comes the final book in the rapturous Survivor’s Club series -- as the future of one man lies within the heart of a lost but never-forgotten love... For the f...



  • The New York Times bestselling author of Only a Kiss launches a new series with the death of an earl and the revelation of a scandalous secret... Humphrey Westcott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune that will forever alter the...



  • A reversal of fortune befalls a young woman in the latest Westcott novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Only a Kiss and Someone to Love. Humphrey Westcott, Earl of Riverdale, has died, leaving behind a fortune and a scandalous secr...



  • A ROGUE'S DOWNFALL - An Anthology The Anniversary After the Earl of Reardon, one of London's most notorious rakes, ruined the virtue and reputation of a young lady at a masquerade ball on Valentine's Day, he did the honorable thing an...



  • A very practical marriage makes Alexander Westcott question his heart in the latest Regency romance from the New York Times bestselling author of Someone to Hold. When Alexander Westcott becomes the new Earl of Riverdale, he inherits a title he ne...



  • Once the Countess of Riverdale, Viola Kingsley throws all caution to the wind when adventure calls in the form of a handsome aristocrat... Two years after the death of the Earl of Riverdale, his family has overcome the shame of being stripped of t...



  • During a rare white Christmas at Brambledean Court, the widow Elizabeth, Lady Overfield, defies convention by falling in love with a younger man in the latest novel in the Westcott series. After her husband's passing, Elizabeth Overfield decides t...



  • First appearances deceive in the newest charming and heartwarming Regency romance in the Westcott series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh. Abigail Westcott's dreams for her future were lost when her father died and sh...



  • It's never too late to fall in love in this enchanting new novella in the Westcott series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh. Matilda Westcott has spent her life tending to the needs of her mother, the Dowager Countess of River...



  • Love comes when you least expect it in this captivating new novel in the Wescott Regency romance series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh. Lady Jessica Archer lost her own interest in the glittering excitement of romance after her...



  • Is love worth the loss of one's freedom and independence? This is what Mrs. Tavernor must decide in the new novel in the Westcott series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh. When Harry Westcott lost the title Earl of Riverdale a...



  • Sometimes, just one person can pull a whole family apart. And sometimes, it just takes one person to pull it back together. For fans of Bridgerton, New York Times bestselling Regency Romance author Mary Balogh shows how love truly conquers all in thi...



  • The undisputed queen of Regency romance is back with a brand-new story perfect for fans of Bridgerton. The handsome and charismatic Earl of Stratton, Caleb Ware, has been exposed to the ton for his clandestine affairs -- by his own son. As a ch...



  • Can Lady Philippa Ware forgive the man who once shattered all her youthful dreams? Discover the passionate and heartwarming new novel on the redemptive power of love from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh.Philippa, elder daughter of ...



  • Lady Jennifer Arden and Ben Ellis know that a match between them is out of the question. Yet their hearts yearn for the impossible. Discover a new heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author and beloved “queen of Regency romance” Ma...


Award-Winning Books by Mary Balogh

A Christmas Bride
1997 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Regency
A Counterfeit Betrothal
1993 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Regency Romance
Irresistible
1998 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Regency
The Last Waltz
1998 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Regency Romance
More Than a Mistress
2000 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Regency Romance (Traditional or Nontraditional)
Only a Kiss
2015 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Historical Romance set in the U.K.
2015 All About Romance Reader Award -- Biggest Tearjerker
Only Enchanting
2014 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Historical Romance Set in the U.K.
The Secret Mistress
2011 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Regency Historical Romance
The Secret Pearl
1991 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Regency Novel
Simply Love
2006 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Romance of the Year
Slightly Dangerous
2004 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best European Historical
2004 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Hero
Slightly Married
2003 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best European Historical
Slightly Scandalous
2003 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Regency Historical Romance
Spellbound
2008 All About Romance Reader Award -- Best Romance Short Story
The Temporary Wife
1997 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Regency Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Balogh has published 127 books.

Mary Balogh does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Always Remember, was published in January 2024.

The first book by Mary Balogh, A Masked Deception, was published in February 1985.

Yes. Mary Balogh has 16 series.