Book Review: One Night of Passion by Erica Ridley

One Night of Passion (Wicked Dukes Club Book 3)

“One Night of Passion,” book 3 of the Wicked Dukes Series by Erica Ridley and Darcy Burke finds Thaddeus Middleton, a gentleman who is just a “Mister and no title,” a mantra which will be repeated several times in the book.

Having a “Mister” as a hero is refreshing and quite frankly, I like it. It’s because Regency romances usually revolves around a titled gentleman. Yet, with thousands of books printed in this genre, one wonders how many there in the peerage are.

Moving on…

Thaddeus Middleton is a likeable fellow. He is not poor, but he is not rich either. In today’s society, he would be one of the trust fund kids but that trust would not be so large that he could live extravagantly.

Enter Priscilla Weatherby whose family is rich that her trust was a fortune. Problem is that she could not inherit if she got married because that trust was not her dowry. And she needed that money so that she could go on her adventure, a dream she had since she was a child.

Thaddeus wants to fall in love and be loved because of himself, not because of money. Priscilla did not want to fall in love because she wanted to be free of the constraints of London’s polite society.

But, fall in love they did. So, now the two were at a crossroads – consummate their love or say goodbye forever.

Another sweet and easy read from Erica Ridley, “One Night of Passion” delves not only in romantic love but also familial love. It is also about loving oneself enough to find true love or loving oneself to distraction that the person had become self-centered that they forget everyone around them.

Short of calling the story a fable, if you read between the line, “One Night of Passion” also teaches a lesson. The book is Rated T for Teens.