Lord of Secrets
A Regency Romance
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4.3 • 36 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
An opposites-attract, wrong-side-of-the-tracks, secret identity romance from a New York Times bestselling author:
Heath Grenville is the problem-solver for London's elite. Unmask the devious cretin skewering the ton with audacious caricatures? With pleasure. His success should keep the powerful happy. But when his work leads him to a young lady outside his class, surely he won’t do anything so scandalous as to fall in love...
By day, Miss Nora Winfield is a proper, unremarkable paid companion. By night, Nora’s skillful hands sketch the infamous penny caricatures rocking high society. Nora desperately needs the money…and her anonymity. But how can she keep them both, when she’s fallen for the one man whose livelihood and reputation requires him to expose her?
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…
Customer Reviews
Secrets and scandals
Heath Grenville has spent his life trying to be perfect, keep scandal from his family and help others with their problems. He has become the secret keeper for the tonne. He is also keeping a big secret about himself and his true desires from those closest to him. He will do anything for the family he loves.
Nora Winfield has her own secrets and is also desperate to help her family. Her secret actions do help her family financially, but she feels less and less comfortable about them.
Nora and Heath come from very different social spheres, but they both enjoy the company of each other as they can be themselves. The dialogue between these two seems real; just the way we would chat with a good friend or close colleague. In the beginning this feeling comes from the absolute certainty that there can never be anything but friendship between them. Later it is because they can’t be any other way with each.
I like the way that the internal dialogue of the characters is written very clearly. You can identify with their reservations and feelings of inadequacy, especially if you have ever tried to do your best for the benefit of others. Givers will be able to see themselves in Heath and Nora.
This was an enjoyable read, with may reasons to smile and the occasional moments when you wanted the floor to open up under the character because of what they were saying or doing. You do not need to read the rest of the series before this book, but it may convince you to read them afterwards. There is a spoiler in this book for one earlier in the series (Lord of Pleasure), but this is because of the time frame this book is set in.
I read and reviewed an ARC.