Mary Balogh - At Last Comes Love

PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF
MARY BALOGH

SIMPLY PERFECT
A warm-hearted and feel-good story Readers will want to add this wonderful story to their collection. Simply Perfect is another must-read from this talented author, and a Perfect 10.

Romance Reader

With her signature exquisite sense of characterization and subtle wit, Balogh brings her sweetly sensual, thoroughly romantic Simply quartet to a truly triumphant conclusion.

Booklist

SIMPLY MAGIC
Absorbing and appealing. This is an unusually subtle approach in a romance, and it works to great effect.

Publishers Weekly

Balogh has once again crafted a sensuous tale of two very real people finding love and making each others lives whole and beautiful. Readers will be delighted.

Booklist

SIMPLY UNFORGETTABLE
When an author has created a series as beloved to readers as Baloghs Bedwyn saga, it is hard to believe that she can surpass the delights with the first installment in a new quartet. But Balogh has done just that.

Booklist

A memorable cast refresh[es] a classic Regency plot with humor, wit, and the sizzling romantic chemistry that one expects from Balogh. Well-written and emotionally complex.

Library Journal

SIMPLY LOVE
One of the things that make Ms. Baloghs books so memorable is the emotion she pours into her stories. The writing is superb, with realistic dialogue, sexual tension, and a wonderful heart-wrenching story. Simply Love is a book to savor, and to read again. It is a Perfect 10. Romance doesnt get any better than this.

Romance Reviews Today

With more than her usual panache, Balogh returns to Regency England for a satisfying adult love story.

Publishers Weekly

SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS
Slightly Dangerous is the culmination of Baloghs wonderfully entertaining Bedwyn series. Balogh, famous for her believable characters and finely crafted Regency-era settings, forges a relationship that leaps off the page and into the hearts of her readers.

Booklist

With this series, Balogh has created a wonderfully romantic world of Regency culture and society. Readers will miss the honorable Bedwyns and their mates; ending the series with Wulfrics story is icing on the cake. Highly recommended.

Library Journal

SLIGHTLY SINFUL
Smart, playful, and deliciously satisfying Balogh once again delivers a clean, sprightly tale rich in both plot and character. With its irrepressible characters and deft plotting, this polished romance is an ideal summer read.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

SLIGHTLY TEMPTED
Once again, Balogh has penned an entrancing, unconventional yarn that should expand her following.

Publishers Weekly

Balogh is a gifted writer. Slightly Tempted invites reflection, a fine quality in romance, and Morgan and Gervase are memorable characters.

Contra Costa Times

SLIGHTLY SCANDALOUS
With its impeccable plotting and memorable characters, Baloghs book raises the bar for Regency romances.

Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The sexual tension fairly crackles between this pair of beautifully matched protagonists. This delightful and exceptionally well-done title nicely demonstrates [Baloghs] matchless style.

Library Journal

This third book in the Bedwyn series is highly enjoyable as part of the series or on its own merits.

Old Book Barn Gazette

SLIGHTLY WICKED
Sympathetic characters and scalding sexual tension make the second installment [in the Slightly series] a truly engrossing read. Baloghs sure-footed story possesses an abundance of character and class.

Publishers Weekly

SLIGHTLY MARRIED
[A Perfect 10] Slightly Married is a masterpiece! Mary Balogh has an unparalleled gift for creating complex, compelling characters who come alive on the pages.

Romance Reviews Today

A SUMMER TO REMEMBER
Balogh outdoes herself with this romantic romp, crafting a truly seamless plot and peopling it with well-rounded, winning characters.

Publishers Weekly

The most sensuous romance of the year.

Booklist

This one will rise to the top.

Library Journal

Filled with vivid descriptions, sharp dialogue, and fantastic characters, this passionate, adventurous tale will remain memorable for readers who love an entertaining read.

Rendezvous

WEB OF LOVE
A beautiful tale of how grief and guilt can lead to love.

Library Journal

W HEN Duncan Pennethorne, Earl of Sheringford, returned to London after a five-year absence, he did not go immediately to Claverbrook House on Grosvenor Square, but instead took up a reluctant residence on Curzon Street with his mother, Lady Carling. Sir Graham, her second husband, was not delighted to see him, but he was fond of his wife so did not turn his stepson from his doors.

Claverbrook House was where Duncan must go sooner rather than later, though. His funds had been cut off, without warning and without explanation, at just a time when he was preparing to return home at lasthome being Woodbine Park in Warwickshire, the house and estate where he had grown up and that had provided him with a comfortable income since his fathers death fifteen years ago.

And he had not been going there alone. The Harrises, who had been in his employ for the past five years in various capacities, were going with himthe position of head gardener had fallen vacant and Harris was to fill it. Most important of all, four-year-old Toby was going there too. He was to be known at Woodbine as the Harrises orphaned grandson. Toby had been wildly excited when told that he would be living henceforward at the place about which Duncan had told him so many exciting storiesDuncans memories of his boyhood there were almost exclusively happy ones.

But then, suddenly, all his plans had gone awry, and he had been forced to leave the child with the Harrises in Harrogate while he dashed off to London in the hope of averting disaster.

His only warning had come in a formal note written in the bold hand of his grandfathers secretary, though his grandfathers signature was scrawled at the foot of the page, unmistakable despite the fact that it had grown shaky and spidery with age. At the same time the steward at Woodbine Park had grown suddenly and ominously silent.

They had all known where to write to him, much of the need for secrecy having been lifted with Lauras death. Duncan had felt obliged to inform a number of people about that unhappy event.

It made little sense to Duncan that his grandfather would decide to cut him off just when a measure of respectability had been restored to his life. It made even less sense when he considered the fact that as the Marquess of Claverbrooks only grandson and only direct descendant, he was his heir.

But sense or nonsense, he was cut off, turned loose and penniless, with no means of supporting those who were dependent upon himor himself for that matter. Not that he worried unduly about the Harrises. Good servants were always in demand. Or about himself. He was still young and able-bodied. But he did worry about Toby. How could he not?