[Mary_Balogh]_Slightly_Married(Bokos-Z1)

Slightly Married (Bedwyn Saga #1)
by Mary Balogh
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London 1814. First of six proud Bedwyns to fall in love, Colonel Lord Aidan 30s honors dying soldier, to protect his sister "no matter what". Eve, and all her lame ducks, will lose Ringwood Manor in Oxfordshire, unless she is married soon. A marriage of convenience becomes passion. Bedwyns love for life, forever.

I've yet to find a book by Ms. Balogh that I didn't love. Her writing always sucks me into the story right from the start, with slightly (no pun intended) imperfect characters that I can't help but feel strongly about. Taking this book as an example, my eyes were already misty when I finished reading the 1st Chapter, and I had just met the heroine Eve...




Mary Balogh
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born
Swansea, Wales, The United Kingdom
gender
female

website
http://www.marybalogh.com

genre
Romance, Historical Fiction


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Mary Jenkins was born on 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. She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award.