More than ten years ago Mary Balogh started a trilogy with
ONE
NIGHT FOR LOVE, about a wife assumed dead who arrives
in the nick of time to stop her husband from marrying
another woman. A few years passed before Mary was given the
green light to write Book 2, A SUMMER
TO REMEMBER, about the abandoned bride from Book 1.
That book led off on a lengthy ten-book tangent of
SLIGHTLY and SIMPY books. Now, at last, Book
3 has been published in hardcover--THE
PROPOSAL. Mary is giving away all three books.
THE PROPOSAL is the
story of Lady Gwen Muir, the widowed Lady Gwen Muir, the
widowed sister of Book 1's hero. She suffered a miscarriage
during her marriage as the result of a riding accident,
which also left her lame. Her husband died accidentally one
year later, and ever since she has been determinedly
uninterested in remarrying--until she meets Hugo Emes, Lord
Trentham.
As well as completing a trilogy, THE
PROPOSAL begins a new seven-part series. Six men and
one woman spent several years together during and after the
Napoleonic Wars on the estate of the Duke of Stanbrook,
recovering from terrible war wounds. Now they meet there
once a year. They call themselves the Survivors' Club. Each
will have a story. This is Hugo's, a man whose mind cracked
after a deed of extraordinary valor brought him his title
and fame.