Lord of Temptation: A Historical Regency Romance Novel (Rogues to Riches Book 4) by Erica Ridley on March 30th 2018
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Be careful what you wish for...
When Lord Hawkridge inherits a penniless marquessate, he must abandon his courtship of the lowborn girl he loves. Years later, she rises from commoner to textiles heiress. Hawk has never banished her from his heart. Here's their chance to share his home! But how can he convince a woman whose trust he destroyed that he desires her far more than her money?
Faith Digby's chaotic world is too full to bother with men. She controls half a boarding school, one life-endangering secret, and two recently gentrified parents. There's no time for the old flame roaring back into her life. Not when admitting she still loves him would imperil everything and everyone she holds dear...
In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series by USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Erica Ridley, Cinderella stories aren’t just for princesses… Sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance with rollicking adventure.
Lord of Chance Lord of Pleasure Lord of Night Lord of Temptation Lord of Secrets Lord of Vice
When Lord Hawkridge inherits a penniless marquessate, he must abandon his courtship of the lowborn girl he loves. Years later, she rises from commoner to textiles heiress. Hawk has never banished her from his heart. Here’s their chance to share his home! But how can he convince a woman whose trust he destroyed that he desires her far more than her money?
Faith Digby’s chaotic world is too full to bother with men. She controls half a boarding school, one life-endangering secret, and two recently gentrified parents. There’s no time for the old flame roaring back into her life. Not when admitting she still loves him would imperil everything and everyone she holds dear…
Lord of Temptation is the fourth book of a new series. In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series, Cinderella stories aren’t just for princesses… Sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind rags-to-riches romance with rollicking adventure.
The Rogues to Riches romance books in Series Order:
#1 Lord of Chance April 2017
#2 Lord of Pleasure May 2017
#3 Lord of Night July 2017
#4 Lord of Temptation March 2018
#5 Lord of Secrets June 2018
#6 Lord of Vice August 2018
~~Reviewed by AnnMarie~~
Lord of Temptation is the fourth book in the Rogues to Riches series by Erica Ridley. It can be read as a standalone, but if you’ve read the previous books there is the bonus of being able to catch up on some of the characters from those.
Lord Hawkridge, Hawk to his friends, and Faith Digby were madly in love 10 years ago. They were very much in lust with each other too and the night before Hawk was to ask Faith’s father for her hand in marriage, they anticipated their wedding vows. Unknown to either of them, Hawk would end up unable to meet with her father. Circumstances got in the way. Hawk inherited a marquessate from his father and discovered that it was penniless, with many many huge debts. There was no way he could marry Faith, he needed to marry a rich woman if he ever had hopes of bringing the estate into the black again. He didn’t have the courage to face Faith, so he wrote to her to tell her of his circumstances, promptly breaking her heart.
Now, 10 years on he is still struggling to pay off the debts, but is so close to it he can almost taste it. He is shocked when through his half-brother, Simon, he meets Faith again. She is the best friend of Simon’s wife. They own and run a school for girls in St Giles, a poor area in London. As soon as they see each other again memories come pouring back. Hawk who never did manage to marry a rich woman never stopped loving Faith, and although she won’t admit it even to herself, Faith has never stopped loving Hawk.
Faith is now a woman of means thanks to her parents successful business. She knows Hawk is still struggling, so can there be any chance of their romance being reignited again when she will always be thinking that he is only interested in her now because of her dowry. She also has a skeleton in her closet that she cannot let out, one that Hawk must never know. With those obstacles in mind, there doesn’t seem any possibility of them taking up where they left off ten years ago. Or is there?
I really enjoyed this story, and I felt so much for both Faith and Hawk. They were so much in love but had so much baggage between them that they couldn’t help but let that get in the way a lot of the time. I wanted so much for them to have a happy ever after and at times could just not see how it was going to be possible. It was a pleasure to read a book where I loved both the hero and the heroine and could see both sides of their story: Could see that they were right about their feelings, their worries, their woes. I also enjoyed catching up with Simon and Dahlia, characters from a previous book in the series. The whole idea of the school and how Dahlia and Faith run it is just beautiful and unique. I could read a whole other series just about the antics of the pupils there. All in all, I definitely recommend this book and indeed the whole series.
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced readers’ copy of this book.
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About Erica Ridley
Erica Ridley learned to read when she was three, which was about the same time she decided to be a writer when she grew up. Now, she’s a USA Today best-selling author of historical romance novels. Her latest series, The Dukes of War, features roguish peers and dashing war heroes who return from battle only to be thrust into the splendor and madness of Regency England. When not reading or writing romances, Erica can be found riding camels in Africa, zip-lining through rainforests in Costa Rica, or getting hopelessly lost in the middle of Budapest.
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