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A New York Times Bestselling AuthorEven at fifteen, Jeanne, the privileged daughter of a royalist migr, knew what she liked: Robert Blake, bastard son of a marquess. His birth rendered him forbidden, but they were young enough to believe in tomorrow. Eleven years later during the Peninsular Wars, they meet again in Portugal, both spies, working on opposing sides. He is a British army captain. She is the widowed Marquesa das Minas. And only for one of them does the passion flicker.
About the Author
Mary Jenkins was born in 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 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 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.
