Last Updated: 10/10/2005
Mary Balogh
RED ROSE 3/1986. ISBN: 0451141571. Regency. The Earl of Raymore is as determined to marry off his newly acquired ward, Rosalind Dacey, as she is never to marry at all. They hate each other with a passion until they discover a bond in their shared love of music.
THE SECRET PEARL 10/1991. ISBN: 045169913. Regency. 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 Kent, Duke of Ridgeway, the wealthiest lord in England, but scarred in war, bitterly betrayed in marriage. She feared his overpowering physical passion. He fought to keep from loving her. They each had so much to teach each other and so much to learn... in a drama of desire played out on a vast estate - where a man and a woman come closer and closer to their moment of heart-pounding truth...
SECRETS OF THE HEART 4/1988. ISBN: 0451152891. Regency. The marriage of Sarah Fifield and the Duke of Cranwell was a love match--until on their wedding night Sarah was forced to reveal the secret of her past. Amid great public scandal their marriage ended almost before it began. But now, several years later, they meet again in Bath.
SILENT MELODY 8/1997. ISBN: 0425158624. Georgian. Lady Emily Marlowe has never forgotten Lord Ashley Kendrick, who went to India when she was very young and married someone else there. She is engaged to another man when Ashley returns, widowed and alone and desperately unhappy. Emily's love is revived, but Ashley harbors a deep, dark, dangerous secret, and she can neither hear not speak.
SLIGHTLY MARRIED 4/2003 ISBN: 0440241049 Regency. 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 where Aidan Bedwyn, the marriage-shy second son, discovers that matrimony may be the most seductive act of all.…Like all the Bedwyn men, Aidan has a reputation for cool arrogance. But this proud nobleman also possesses a loyal, passionate heart--and it is this fierce loyalty that has brought Colonel Lord Aidan to Ringwood Manor to honor a dying soldier's request. Having promised to comfort and protect the man's sister, Aidan never expected to find a headstrong, fiercely independent woman who wants no part of his protection…nor did he expect the feelings this beguiling creature would ignite in his guarded heart. And when a relative threatens to turn Eve out of her home, Aidan gallantly makes her an offer she can't refuse: marry him…if only to save her home. And now, as all of London breathlessly awaits the transformation of the new Lady Aidan Bedwyn, the strangest thing happens: With one touch, one searing embrace, Aidan and Eve's “business arrangement” is about to be transformed…into something slightly surprising.
SNOW ANGEL 6/1991. ISBN: 0451169735. Regency. When the widowed Rosamund Hunter and the Earl of Wetherby are stranded together in a snow storm, they indulge in a brief affair that neither expects to affect their future. But when they meet unexpectedly again, the earl is betrothed to Rosamund's niece and the affair comes back to haunt them both.
THE SUBSTITUTE GUEST 1/1993 Short Story in TOKENS OF LOVE. ISBN: 0451173422
TANGLED 3/1994. ISBN: 0451404521 Victorian. Rebecca, Lady Cardwell, is inconsolable after her beloved husband is killed during the Crimean War. She is bitterly resentful that it is his foster brother, David, who has survived and come home. Then David asks her to marry him and, despairing of any future happiness, she accepts. But the tangled web of past secrets and future complications brings her alive again--to both pain and ecstasy.
THE TEMPORARY WIFE 5/1997. ISBN 0451191439. Regency. The Marquess of Staunton cold-bloodedly advertises for a governess for his non-existent children, chooses the plainest and dullest applicant, and offers her marriage. His only motive is to anger his estranged father, who has chosen a different bride for him. After he has presented her to his family, he plans to establish her somewhere with a great deal of money and never see her again. Charity Duncan agrees to the strange bargain because she is desperate for money to help support her brothers and sisters. But when she meets his family and recognizes the pain behind the estrangement, her warm heart cannot remain aloof. And when Staunton realizes that his temporary wife is in fact neither plain nor dull, his cold heart stirs to new life.
TEMPTING HARRIET 5/1994 ISBN: 0451179528 Regency. Once, when she was a mere lady's companion, Harriet Pope had spurned the attempted seduction of the Duke of Tenby. Now, six years later, she is the wealthy, titled widow of an older man, and she is the one who sets out to seduce the duke. Yet when she succeeds, it is to the discovery that an affair is not what she wants after all. An affair, though, seems to be all Tenby can offer.
THIEF OF DREAMS 5/1998 ISBN: 0515122742 Georgian. 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 her land and bask in her independence. Then the dashing Nigel Wetherby arrives at the ball - an uninvited guest on Cassandra's most magical day. To young Cass, he is the sweetest of passions. But Nigel has plans of his own. Plans that could break her heart, and defy their love. At once, he is both her worst nightmare - and her dream come true.
THE TRYSTING PLACE 6/1986. ISBN: 0451143000. Regency. Felicity, Lady Wren, made a marriage of duty once. Now she is a widow and is determined to make a brilliant match. She enlists the aid of Tom Russell, a neighbor and old friend, without realizing that perhaps it is a love match she should aim for this time.
UNFORGIVEN 1/1998. ISBN: 0515122068 Regency. Moira Hayes and the Earl of Haverford share a past that began with love but ended in bitterness when each apparently betrayed the other. Now, eight years later, they meet again, and fate, in the form of a winter storm, rekindles their passion, but not their love. Forced into marriage, they each have to learn to confront and forgive the past so that they can have the chance for a future together.
THE UNGRATEFUL GOVERNESS 10/1988. ISBN: 0451157273. Regency. When the Earl of Rutherford tries to seduce Jessica Moore in her employer's library one night, she is blamed and loses her job. Rutherford offers her a position as his mistress, but instead Jessica enlists the aid of his own grandmother and sets out to teach him a lesson.
AN UNLIKELY DUCHESS 10/1990. ISBN: 0451167392. Regency. Josephine Middleton, faced with an arranged marriage to the Duke of Mitford, who has a reputation as a libertine, decides to run away to her aunt's. However, on the journey there she is rescued from an attacker by Mr. Paul Villiers. He quickly becomes her unwilling accomplice as she sets off in pursuit of the villain and her lost jewels. What she does not realize is that her hero's full name is Paul Villiers, Duke of Mitford.
THE WASSAIL BOWL 11/1996 Short Story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS FEAST. ISBN: 0451190467. Regency.
WEB OF LOVE 3/1990. ISBN: 0451164024. Regency. 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, kind, good-humored, and warmly devoted. After his tragic death, she was certain he would never be replaced. But then Ellen met Lord Dominic Eden, who was everything any woman would dream of in a lover - young, wealthy, titled, incredibly handsome, charming, dashing and ardent. Ellen never meant to find herself in Dominic's arms so scandalously soon. But she did. And now she had to answer the question: was she in Dominic's embrace because of irresistible passion...or irresolute weakness...?
THE WOOD NYMPH 1/1987. ISBN: 0451146506. Regency. Heartbroken at the loss of Elizabeth in A Chance Encounter, William Mainwaring retreats to his country estate and meets the unworldly Helen Wade in the woods one day. She soothes his soul until he flees in panic after seducing her. He then faces the almost impossible task of redeeming himself in her eyes.
THE WRONG DOOR 6/1993 Short Story in RAKES AND ROGUES. ISBN: 0451176391. Regency.
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