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. And in Lucius and Frances, Mary Balogh gives us her most unlikely lovers yet-a nobleman in search of the perfect wife and an unconventional woman willing to risk everything for an unforgettable love. Once again this incomparable storyteller captures a time and a place like no other. For Lucius’s passionate, single-minded pursuit is about to force Frances to give up all her secrets-except one-to win the heart of the man she already loves.

So begins an odyssey fraught with intrigue, one that defies propriety and shocks the straitlaced ton. If Frances will not be his wife, he will make her his mistress. And when fate once again throws them together, Lucius refuses to take no for an answer. Due to begin her teaching position at Miss Martin’s School in Bath, Frances must try to forget that one extraordinary night-and the man who touched her with such exquisite tenderness and abandon.īut Frances cannot hide forever. But Frances knows her place-and it is far from the privileged world of the sensual aristocrat. Stranded together in a rustic country inn, Lucius Marshall, who is the Viscount Sinclair, and Frances Allard share a night of glorious, unforgettable passion. Between these two unlikely strangers, desire is instantaneous…and utterly impossible to resist. He is the cool, black-caped stranger who unexpectedly comes to her rescue. She is a young teacher with a secret past. Drawing us into the lives of four women, teachers at Miss Martin’s School for Girls, Balogh introduces this novel’s marvelous heroine: music teacher Frances Allard-and the man who seduces her with a passion no woman could possibly forget.… With this, the first in a dazzling new quartet of novels, Balogh invites us into a special world-a select academy for young ladies-a world of innocence and temptation. New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the seductive world she knows so well-Regency England-in a new novel filled with her trademark wit, sensuality, and breathtaking storytelling.

Simply love by mary balogh