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1Welsh-Canadian writer Mary Balogh specializes in Regency and Georgian-era romance novels whose heroines include courtesans or 'fallen' women as well as noble ladies. To date, Balogh has published more than ninety novels and novellas, all of which have enjoyed critical and popular success. Her first novel, [*A Masked Deception*](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0451160622? tag=work089-20), was published in 1985, and Balogh won the *Romantic Times* award for this book the same year. The writer has spoken of how she wrote this novel from her kitchen table at home in the evenings as family life continued around her. In 1993 Balogh's work was recognized with the *Romantic Times* Career Achievement Award.Authors Like Tessa Dare for Historical Romance Fans