Book Review: Romancing the Rogue by Erica Ridley

Every time I pick up a book by Erica Ridley, I always think of one of my favorite CDs – “Classical Music for People who Hate Classical Music” which have a sampling of masterpieces that makes one fall in love with classical music.

That said, if I am book curator, I will put all of Ridley’s books in one shelf and marked them as “Regency Romances for People Who Hate Regency Romance.” Her stories are so easy to read with lots of laugh out loud funny moments interspersed with Murphy’s Law occurrences, it is really hard not to enjoy them.

Case in point is ” Romancing the Rogue ,” the story of Rebecca Bond and Daniel Goodenham, childhood friends and almost sweethearts but were separated by events beyond their control. And now that they have a second chance to rekindle their friendship and perhaps romance, Murphy’s Law just put their world upside down once again.

Whether you are going to the beach or the mountains this summer, Romancing the Rogue will be good reading. The book is Rated T for Teens. There are no sex scenes in this book.

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Description

When the new earl inherits, poor relation Miss Rebecca Bond must wed immediately or be out on her ear. The only man she’s ever loved is summoned to hear the will—but he already rejected her so soundly that they haven’t spoken in years. Yet who better than a rakish Viscount to teach her how to snare a gentleman who appreciates her charms?

Daniel Goodenham, Lord North-Barrows, regrets nothing more than the lost friendship with the one woman who treated him like a man, not a title. Fate has given him the perfect pretext to win her forgiveness—even if it means having to matchmake her to someone else. But now that she’s back in his life, he’ll do anything to convince her to choose him instead…