Heath is know for protecting the secrets of the ton and now he want to reveal a secret. Who is the person drawing the caricatures. Eleanora Winfield is only helping out her family. When the two meet it is attraction for both but they know nothing can come of it. A nice outing with both characters yearning but looking like nothing can come of it. I liked both and was glad when Heath finally started thinking about his happiness instead of trying to be something he was not. Now if they can just get over Eleanora's art.

I received an ARC of the book.

LORD OF SECRETS was a delightful read! The book clearly delineates the Regency standards of the "haves" versus the "have nots" in such a way as to find yourself empathizing with both groups. Poor Nora is summoned to London by a distant cousin to act as companion. Heath is a man-about-town and heir to a barony. They meet by accident (literally!) and gradually come to enjoy a quiet friendship.

However, Nora has several secrets and she is so anxious that Heath not discover them. One has to do with how she is earning money to send home to keep the family farm afloat and the other is something she considers a deep failure on her part.

I truly loved the way the author dropped names from her previous books into this one, but please be assured that you do NOT need to have read any others to find enormous enjoyment in this one. This is truly a stand-alone and a delightful one at that. Those small dropped names are just little hidden gems for those readers who follow Erica Ridley's writing.

Overall, it is my opinion that this is one of the more sterling examples of this author's writing. It's a can't miss!

Lord of Secrets (Rogues to Riches, #5) by Erica Ridley is a fun, romantic Regency Romance. While #5 in this wonderful series, it can be read as a stand alone.
This is the story of Heath Grenville, the ton's problem solver and Miss Eleanora Winfield (Nora). Nora has a huge secret, one that can could the budding romance between herself and Heath when he learns her secret.
Well crafted with charming and engaging characters. The storyline fun, humorous, with interesting dialogue, secrets, romance, a villain, an adorable pug puppy, and a HEA. The reader will find reocurring characters from Ms Ridley's previous books, which is always wonderful to visit with again. I enjoyed Heath and Nora's love story, their challenges and their relationship. For a fun romp in Regency England, pick up LORD OF SECRETS by Erica Ridley. Makes for some wonderful summer reading. Strongly recommended!
I received a complimentary copy, however, all opinions are my own.

Rating: 4.5

I loved Heath and Nora's story!!

Heath and Nora are both intrigued by each other upon meeting, but because he is a Lord and she a companion, nothing could ever come of it. But as they come to spend more and more time together, it is something else entirely that could keep them apart...

I loved this addition to the Rogues to Riches story. It does take place at the same time as some of the other books in the series, so you get another perspective to some of the things that happened.

I'm excited to see what Ridley comes up with next for this wonderful series!

Lord of Secrets may be Erica Ridley’s best book so far. She has brought together two people who are from opposite sides of London society. Both are reminded constantly by others that they could never be together, not purposefully. It is just the way of their ‘stations’ in life. Heath the heir and Nora the sheep farmer’s granddaughter. Yet, they are alike in so many ways. They both love art, love their families, take care of and protect their families. Nora and her brother were raised by their grandparents. Heath never sees his father, the Baron. His mother is demanding he marry for the future of said baronetcy.

Nora innocently becomes the drawer of caricatures that are turning the ton on their ear. She has a reading disability and has taught herself to draw her thoughts. Nora sent her drawings home to her brother to share with him those situations she found fun or even ridiculous. Without her permission, those pictures turn up in the gossip sheets. Her brother wants more so he can send them in because they pay really well.

Heath, the keeper of secrets, is offended on behalf of society. It becomes personal when his friends and family become the object of the pictures. Nora thought she was defending his sister, but Heath did not see it that way. When needed, Nora’s pencil could even be a bit wicked in defense of others.

Nora’s cousin, for whom she is currently working as a companion, wants to know the name of the artist and hires Heath to uncover said artist. Nora feels she must continue because of the funds it is providing for her brother and elderly grandparents. But, she falls more deeply in love every day and worries Heath will realize it is she, the artist of the drawings.

Two of Heath’s sister’s stories, The Lord of Pleasure and Lord of Night, makes this book all the more enjoyable. Ms. Ridley’s gift is interweaving her characters so you never really leave them behind. Having read Camellia and Wainwright’s story and Dahlia and Simon's story, remembering the events as they happened to them and are now concurrent with Nora and Heath made these characters feel like your own friends.

Miss Eleanora Winfield is taking care of her cousin, who had broken her leg. She was a country girl and lived with her brother and aging grandparents. They were so poor and she and her brother work very long hours. Heath Grenville was to be a baronet when his father died. He had 3 sisters and his mother to take care of. He had his own fortune beside the barony, but so wished to own a gallery.
I really enjoyed the interaction between the characters. the Grenville family was something else, they were playful, loving and kind to each other, the same for her family. Although we do not see much of her family. The story is well written, and it keeps your interest. I have read several of Erica Ridley books and I can say, how her books are wonderful and worth the time to read.

I received an advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review

This one is cute and clever, but without a lot of tension or heat between the couple

I LOVE IT, I cannot express myself enough this book is simply delightful, I have grown to love and expect the unexpected from Erica Ridley books, and this one was no exception. This book had me smiling from beginning to the I especially love how Eleanora dealt with a stallion among men priceless. Heath was a real gentleman even when he got royal pissed or and Mrs. Roundtree she played her part flawlessly. Everything about this book is good, even the cover which is gently stated, psst I am eagerly awaiting the next, Great job Erica Ridley a masterpiece crafted by a master.

Three and a half stars.

Miss Eleanora (Nora) Winfield has been summoned from her family's sheep farm in the West Midlands to act as a lady's companion to her (distant) cousin Lady Roundtree whilst that lady recovers from a fractured ankle. She's homesick and lonely, treated as a servant, invisible and overlooked she finds her employer catty and an incurable gossip but eight weeks work as a paid companion could help her brother and aged grandparents enormously, taking them from the brink of destitution to almost comfortable so she'll grit her teeth and get on with it.

At Lord Carlisle's ball Nora runs into a handsome gentleman by accident whilst carrying a glass of lemonade to her employer. The gentleman is the first person to actually 'see' Nora and she is struck by his good looks and his charming manners. Later in the evening the gentleman, Mr Heath Grenville, approaches her to ask her to dance and is horrified to discover that she is little better than a servant (and consequently far beneath the heir to a baronetcy).

Heath Grenville is the older brother of three sisters, two of whom have had their own books. He is very aware that his duty to his family and his future role is to marry a woman of impeccable lineage, one who will not bring any hint of scandal to the family. Yet he can't help but remember a young woman with red hair and a pink dress who acts as a companion to Lady Roundtree.

Nora sends drawings and caricatures of the people and places she sees in London back to her family, partly because she has difficulty reading and writing but partly to share her life with them. Unfortunately her brother shares some of the caricatures (anonymously) with a contact and the next thing she knows her sketch of Lord Wainwright, which she laughingly titled 'Lord of Pleasure' has been published in a London newspaper and is the talk of the ton. Not only that, the paper will pay her five pounds for every caricature she sends them - provided of course that they are of the ton. Nora is torn between wanting to earn money to help her family and horror at being exposed as the artist who dared to lampoon a member of the aristocracy - she knows if the artist's identity is discovered she will be sacked and bring censure down upon her cousin's family.

This was immediately gripping, I love a romance featuring a lowly lady's companion, especially one who draws vicious caricatures of the stupidity and ridiculousness of high society and throw in an untameable puppy and you've got me hooked. It would have got a higher rating if Heath hadn't come across as a leetle bit of a prig, so dismissive of all the eligible young ladies of the ton and so judgemental if they so much as smiled in his direction, despite his own mother's obsession with marrying off each of her offspring. I also felt that there was a lack of angst/ tension - whilst that was a twist to confound my expectations it also felt like the ending slightly puttered out.

Nevertheless, another fun read from Erica Ridley. I am SO stoked about the next book ... can't wait.

I received a free copy of this book from the author, via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

Enjoyed it

What I liked:
The writing style
The characters
Dual POVs
Part of a series: Rogues to Riches
Standalone
HEA
Epilogue

I look forward to reading more from this author.

Great read from start to finish. Hooked me from the start. Likeable characters and great chemistry. Really builds as it goes

Of the series, I think that Lord of Secrets, is my all time favorite. Nora is so innocent in the ways that the Ton works. And Heath is a master at keeping it's secrets and fixing them.of course they will be perfect together.

Heath Grenville is extremely conflicted. He has devoted his life to investigating and protecting society’s secrets. The heir to a baronetcy, he wishes for everything to proceed just so in high society. His problem is that his father ignores him and the rest of the family and his three younger sisters could give a flip for Society’s rules. He loves and admires his sisters and has to struggle to support them in their chosen dreams even if that takes them outside polite society.

However, he’s determined that he will do everything according to the rules when it comes to picking a wife. But none of the debutantes twittering around him appeal at all. The woman who does appeal is totally beyond acceptability. Nora Winfield is the granddaughter of a sheep farmer and paid companion to a second cousin, a pillar of high society. Nora is also hiding secrets from Heath - that she has dyslexia and that she is the artist behind a series of cleverly-drawn caricatures of high society that are infuriating Heath and which he’s contracted to stop. However, the two are attracted to each other even though he shouldn’t love a woman so far below him much less one whose caricatures have lampooned even his only family.

While at times Heath was a very nice guy, other times he was just a bit too sanctimonious. If he loved his sisters so deeply, why was he still so committed to fighting anything going against Society’s strictures?

I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book that I received from Netgalley; however, the opinions are my own and I did not receive any compensation for my review.