I didn't doubt they loved each other - as friends, not as lovers. and it was the fact that I couldn't believe that the hero and the heroine were truly in love with each other. I did have fun reading it and even laughed out loud a couple of times, but there was something missing. Balogh herself says this book is a farce, so I knew beforehand I couldn't take it seriously if I intended to enjoy it. Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award. She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. 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 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.

Dark angel by mary balogh