Mary Balogh Novels

THEY PLAYED A GAME OF DECEPTION – BUT THERE WAS NO DISGUISING THEIR DESIRE

Jeanne Morrisette, the daughter of a French count, met Richad Blake when she was fifteen and he was the seventeen-year-old illegitimate son of an English lord. When they meet again they are older and wiser, cast into a sea of intrigue, as France and England fight a ruthless war. But not even the lies they are forced to tell each other can dampen their desire for one another…as this proud and bewitching beauty and this handsome and fearless officer come together in a passion that flares in the shadow of danger – and a love that conquers the forces of hate….

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 fleeing her proper station in society to take a position as companion to the daughter of a wealthy family far from London, where Elizabeth's beauty and wit had once so brightly shown.

But now her hope of a safe haven was shattered. To her horror, the one man in the world she hoped never to see again appeared in this rural retreat.

Robert Denning, the handsome, faithless Marquis of Hetherington, had made a mockery of her dreams before - and now was working his old magic and mischief in her life once more…

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 bitter with jealousy and anger. But that had been long ago. Now Isabella was the premier star of the London stage. And Jack was the city’s supreme rake, a jaded libertine currently courting an exquisite if inexperienced young lady on orders from his titled grandmother. Both Isabella and Jack were utterly changed-so what danger could there be if they met again? But as they soon discovered, there are painful wounds that never heal-and burning passions that refuse to die.…

a christmas bride

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 a parade of eligible misses, all of them pretty, proper, and young enough to bear him a son. But it was the widow Lady Helena Stapleton, in a shocking red dress, who captured his undivided attention. He simply could not take his eyes from her. And as for Helena, she too felt a most disturbing frisson when she saw this seductive stranger.

An irresistible passion was soon sweeping them into a scandalous liaison. Marriage, of course, would never do. Helena was too old and altogether the wrong lady to marry; Helena thought Edgar simply not in her class. But in a season of unexpected miracles, something wondrous was about to happen... something that would change their minds and transform their hearts forever.…