"Romancing the Rogue" is a sweet love story of missed chances and the hope of forgiveness. Daniel Goodenham, the Viscount of North Barrows listened to his overbearing grandmother when she scoffed at and humiliated his friend, Miss Rebecca Bond. At 17, he wanted nothing more than his grandmother's approval and so he said nothing, not knowing how much he'd hurt Rebecca. Now older and wiser, he has one chance to ask for Rebecca's forgiveness and travels to the forbidding castle of her late great uncle.

Ms. Ridley has crafted a delightful light-hearted romance that relies more on clever banter than vapid young ladies trying to impress Lord North Barrows in a London ballroom. The story centers only around Daniel and Rebecca as they each try to reconcile with their past. It's a quick read, but a most enjoyable way to spend an afternoon.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.

Since I really like the friends to lovers theme in my romances, this short story naturally caught my attention. I think it’s a challenging situation in historical romance, something I haven’t come across before. Usually the hero and the heroine meet while we read, and fall in love but in this story, the hero and the heroine have already met and even drifted apart by the time we start reading.

They’ve been best friends since they were young-as best as they can be allowed in the eyes of society- until Daniel rebukes Rebecca for an innocent dance request in front of the ton.

This was my first read from Erica Ridley but there’s a good chance it won’t be the last. Even though I’m wary about novellas because I feel like they aren’t enough to convey the romantic feelings to the fullest to convince me, Erica Ridley did a nice enough job in such a short story.

I think those who like novellas and friends to lovers stories would enjoy this. Especially if you’re looking for sweet and quick, this will be enough to satisfy you.

I’m adding four spoonfuls of this novella into my hodgepodge.

Rebecca who was only living or better yet just existing finds life to be a bit more exciting once Daniel returns. Life changes on a whim and it was certainly what she was expecting. But in a good way! I love good and romantic historical love story. And this definitely fit the bill.

It was an okay Regency romance. It wasn't remarkable. It wasn't bad. She just was down on her luck and needed to be saved.

This is a sweet second chance love story. It's has a great storyline, strong and likable characters and I loved the unique way that Daniel solved Rebecca's issue, it was way beyond the norm.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Netgalley. This is my honest opinion of it.

This was a bit short for my taste. I felt it could do with some fleshing out. I felt there was no real dilemma and I didn't really empathise with the heroine.

I really liked this novella!! Quick but good read! Young love that did not make it is now reunited-will it last? Is it truly mean to be? My first of Erica Ridley's and it makes me want more of her books!

Nice enough story but just not much meat to it. Felt like something was left out of story.

Rebecca is out when a new heir found and enter an old friend who rejected her to teach her how to find a spouse. Daniel wants a second chance to change the past.
Always enjoy this author's storyline and characters. Good book to settle in for an evening of reading.
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I enjoyed Erica Ridley's sweet story. Daniel, Lord North-Barrows, want a second chance to woo Rebecca Bond, an old friend. As a youth he allowed his desire to please his grandmother to hurt her. Will he get another chance? I liked Rebecca. She's intelligent, resourceful and feisty. She's not a vapid socialite. She needs to find a man who loves her and wants her as a wife. Daniel is sorry that he hurt Rebecca. He knows that she understood who he really was and cared for him. I enjoyed seeing them interact. Their dialogue is flirty and humorous. I was happy seeing them reconcile and grow close. I wanted a HEA. Erica Ridley has a romantic style of writing that I enjoy. The ghostly castle is the perfect setting for Romancing The Rogue.
I received a copy of this book which I voluntarily read. My comments are my honest opinion.

Miss Rebecca Bond was an orphan and lived at her great-uncle's house, the Earl of Banfield.
But this one was already old, and after having made of his house, her, in Cornwall, she was completely alone in the world.
After his death, Rebecca's just a person to annoy the new earl, that already had other daughters to present in the Season.
So the Earl yielded £ 5,000 as a dowry to her, but she would only have a month to find a husband.
After spending so many years away from London, Rebecca knew she would not have a chance to find a husband, competing with so many more beautiful and sophisticated ladies. So she was content to find someone in the village of Bocka Morrow.

Daniel Goodenham, Viscount North-Barrows, knows Rebecca since they were kids.
He had several good memories of the moments he spent beside her, but the most special was the scent of cinnamon, when at age 12 she cooked raisin biscuits.
Over the years, Rebecca has become a young woman without parents, without money, without a good chance of having a good marriage. While Daniel became from a merry lad to a rich viscount ignored by his grandmother and full of responsibilities with his tenants and at the House of Lords.
Twice, Daniel let Rebecca down and never sought her again.

Invited for the former Earl's will reading, Daniel and Rebecca would meet again. He would do everything possible to undo the bad impression he left years ago and compensate her by helping her find a good husband.
The big problem was that Daniel had a single candidate for Rebecca's husband: himself.

The story is not so long, but it has funny moments and others breaking the heart.
Daniel knew at first that as much as he liked Rebecca, he was not the best candidate for her husband. Not to mention that he knew that, because of his grandmother, Rebecca had been publicly humiliated in her debut. He thought about compensating her the following Season, but this Season never came.
After years he would have the chance to fix his bad behavior. But his heart beat harder, and strangely, when he saw her, and he knew he could never let her go.

Stand alone. No cliffhanger.
5 stars

I have read everything Ms. Ridley has ever published that I could get my hands on and have enjoyed every single one of her books. This one is no different. It was a very easy and quick read. Rebecca and Daniel knew each other years ago when they were younger and Rebecca had a crush on Daniel, he ended up wounding her young heart and leaving and she never forgave or forgot him.
The backdrop and scenery for the story is awesome. The characters are unforgettable and the sensuality of the two of them together is sizzling. It's a story of redemption and second chances and a chance at forgiveness.
I loved the story of how Rebecca is just this forgotten poor relation who lives with this relative until he dies and then the new Earl comes to take his rightful place and discovers her living there and decides she needs to be married off. In enters Daniel, who is seeking forgiveness and feels remorse for the way he treated her when they were younger. The journey from fledgling friendship to love is well worth the read.

This short and sweet historical was full of the entertaining banter at which Ridley excels. Rebecca was strong and intelligent. Daniel was endearingly self-aware and diffident, rather than the typical chest-beating alpha male type. We even got a shout out to Ravenwood, planting us firmly in the same England as the Dukes of War without exploiting the connection. A lot of fun!

A sweet regency novel about the plight of women and the narrow road for the nobility - which is worse?

DNF. Didn't love the story. Thanks to the Publisher for the review copy.

This series from Erica Ridley had me jumping for joy. I love when authors put out new books to read. This story was a quick easy read. A couple with a rocky start find a happy ever after. I loved her other books but was most excited to get a sneak peak at Lord of Chance at the end of this book. It sounds great!

A pleasing novella.

I loved the opening premise, 'Miss Rebecca Bond was nobody’s fool. She was, however, desperate. And destitute. After five long years of living virtually unnoticed within the countless nooks and crannies of Castle Keyvnor, she’d come to think of it as her home.' Rebecca has made the castle her home, wandering its length and breadth, forgotten yet able to sustain herself and helping with castle affairs along the way. But now the Earl was dying. (Mind you how anyone can live in a castle unnoticed for five years is a mystery to me--but Ridley manages to make this completely believable!

Rebecca has a decision to make. The new Earl will give her a dowry upon her marriage. Daniel Goodenham, Lord North-Barrows, is a childhood friend of Rebecca's who treated who badly, spurning her, when she came out years ago. Daniel has never forgotten her. Rebecca has never forgiven him. Now they meet again. Daniel wants forgiveness, Rebecca wants to be able to order her life, and Daniel just doesn't measure up--at the moment.

A NetGalley ARC
(March 2017)

I've read several of Ridley's books before so I am pre-approved on Netgalley for many of her books on the site. This is a relatively short book, with a very limited cast of characters.

Rebecca had a dubious first season, having been shamefull rejected in public by the older (he was 17) Daniel Goodenham who had just inherited his title after the death of his father. She has spent the last five years living in the shadows of Castle Keyvor, but with the death of Lord Banfield everything is now in jeopardy. The new earl becomes aware of her existance and gives her an ultimatum: with 5 girls of his own he has no extra time or money to support a sixth: she has mere months to find a husband, or he will choose a husband for her. Her parents long gone, her wardrobe significantly out of date, the chance of a small dowry, and out of practise in flirting etc., she feels she has little chance of finding a suitable husband in time.

She realises that Daniel would be coming up for the reading of the will and that she would make use of his reputation as a rake - without realising that it's all made up in the press.

Disgusted by his birthday party, where he knows virtually noone but all the young women are flirting for his attention, Daniel comes up to the castle early. I'm not entirely sure how he's certain that's where she'll be - in the need to find Rebecca's forgiveness. He gets about a week with her before the others arrive for the reading of the will and it doesnt always go well. He finds her infinately more intelligent and talented than he ever hoped, she finds him not the rake that the press had made him out to be.

We dont get to meet the other guests, and certainly dont sit in on the reading of the will - we only get to hear the results, which surprises at least one of the couple. This is a good choice as it doesn't clutter the story up with 1 dimensional characters who add nothing to the story. The only character that confuses me slightly is the reaction of Mary the maid who seems to have no problem in taking orders from Rebecca, despite (apparently) Rebecca's non-visibilty around the castle for the last 5 years.

Anyway, a shortish story, that seems pretty standalone, and not requiring an investment in a series of 8 books to find out what happens to everyone involved (as seems the fashion nowadays).