The Heir: A Forbidden Romance with a Modern-Day Duke (Belvedere Book 1)

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For nine hundred years, the Dukes of Oxford have served three masters: the crown, our title, and our estate, Belvedere.Love? That's not in the De Vere family playbook.Passion? Reserved strictly for producing heirs.We marry for duty, bed for bloodlines, and keep our desires locked away like the family silver.As heir to the dukedom, I've perfected the art of noble restraint. My engagement to a beautiful, blue-blooded ice queen has been set in stone since birth. I've never questioned it—never even wanted to.Until Ivy Cooper explodes into my grey, duty bound existence, flooding it with colour and chaos.She's everything I shouldn't want: a potty-mouthed commoner who scoffs at my title and makes Eliza Doolittle look refined. She works at London's most exclusive sex club, guards secrets darker than my family's dungeons, and has zero respect for the duties that define me.She's also the most magnificent creature I've ever encountered.One taste of her, and I'm completely undone. When I'm in her orbit, the repressed heir disappears, replaced by a lovesick fool who would burn down nine centuries of tradition for the chance of a future with her.Now I'm facing an impossible choice: the title that's been my destiny since birth, or the woman who's become my salvation.I've served my masters faithfully my entire life.But Ivy Cooper makes me want to become a traitor.The Heir is a steamy opposites-attract contemporary romance featuring a real life duke and a great big HEA.

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by Elodie Hart (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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by Elodie Hart (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Very thankful for the ARC to this wonderful book. I have read many ARC's from Elodie and truly I have never felt so deeply for a book or characters. This is my favourite story of hers. The writing is phenomenal, you truly transport into the beautiful world of Belvedere.The characters in this book are so beautiful written.Ivy is solo bringing up her twin teenage sisters, after both her parents died and her step-mother is diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia. Ivy used to work at Alchemy, (yes we get some cameos from previous characters) and she is just trying to get through everyday raising teenagers and paying rent in a very run down neighbourhood. Ivy is grown up, switched on and sex positive. She is all for women empowerment and expressed that deeply throughout the book.Xavier is next in line to be Duke of Oxford, he has grown up with wealth, money and is in a loveless arranged engagement his parents set up for him. He lives in the beautiful estate of Belvedere and when reading this book you feel fully immersed into the grand, breathtaking environment. Xavier has many old fashioned views, which throughout the book he is constantly challenged on (by Ivy) and his opinions begin to change and form into his own rather than from his parents.The love story this book conveys is wonderfully deep and emotionally captures you in a way I rarely feel. There is less spice than a normal Elodie book however the passion and tension between the characters is outstanding. There are too many obstacles in the way for the two of them to be together, even if they do love one another. Nothing is simple for them.Will Xavier's duty born loyalty to his family and Ivy's complex home life stop two soul mates from being together?