Heidi Rice: Cover Joy for The CEO's Impossible Heir...

Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Cover Joy for The CEO's Impossible Heir...

O.M.G! Just got my NA cover for The CEO's Impossible Heir... This is a sequel to The Billionaire's Proposition in Paris (out in Harlequin's November line-up if anyone's interested!!). It's the second book in my Secrets of Billionaire Siblings duo – and features brooding British billionaire Ross De Courtney, fiery Irish artist Carmel O'Riordan, the discovery of his secret baby (actually now a four-year-old boy) at his sister Katie's wedding to Carmel's brother Conall in Connemara, one steamy week in Ross's penthouse in Tribeca and one agonising week in his luxury Long Island estate as Ross tries to decide if he can ever be a father and Carmel tries to figure out if the lone-wolf billionaire can ever let down his guard long enough to love anyone...

Ross and Carmel's story is out in February 2022, and I think the Harlequin cover fairies have outdone themselves with my hero... I actually had him modelled on Aaron Taylor Johnson but now I'm thinking he looks more like Patrick Dempsey. What do you think? McHottie or McDreamy? I've created a clever little graphic to help you decide... 

Then again I'm wondering if it really matters who my guy looks like... Given that come hither smirk is so right, and yet so wrong - for Carmel that is, who has her child and her carefully planned future to consider when Ross crashes back into her life, while crashing his sister's wedding, to cause all sorts of delicious problems!

4 comments:

Susan Allan said...: I love the cover!

I am really looking forward to Ross and Carmel's story and I love the thought that we're going to see Connal and Katie again at their wedding - how fabulous.

I think both of your guys fit the bill, but I do have to admit a wee preference for Patrick Dempsey. He's perhaps too old now but he's still hot!; 19 October 2021 at 08:15
Heidi Rice said...: Haha, love it, yes my cover guy is a dead ringer for Patrick isn't he! think you'll enjoy Ross and Carmel's story. Have to admit I love the whole secret baby trope, but it's quite hard to do in Presents (eg: what do you do with the kid LOL) so I don't do them often, but I got to thinking about Ross and Carmel a lot while I was writing this book – how did they meet, why did he reject his own child, how did she cope with that rejection, etc... So it just seemed to flow naturally.; 23 October 2021 at 03:26
Anonymous said...: Love this series when is Imelda's story coming out. Can't wait; 8 August 2022 at 11:34
Hugo said...: Thanks for writiing this; 1 November 2024 at 15:25

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Dirty Secret by Mira Lyn Kelly
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So I know absolutely NADA about ice hockey, I'm a Brit after all. But when I saw my old writing mate Mira Lyn Kelly had written a series of HAWT hockey romances I hit the insta-buy button because I know what a fabulous writer she is – and I had a week-long holiday in Spain with lots of lounging-around-a-pool time to fill. I'm happy to say I was not disappointed. Because this book hit all my sweet spots hot hero, smart savvy heroine, snappy dialogue and deep deep emotion wise.... (Although I still know nada about hockey I feel I can now talk quite knowledgeably about how hot ice hockey players are at least!)

Dirty Secret is the first of the Slayers Hockey team stories (although Greg and Julia feature in Dirty Player, in another series, which I will sooo be checking out after I finish this series). Anyway Dirty Secret features team captain Greg Baxter's arch rival Vaughn Vasser and Greg's little sister Natalie, who is absolutely OFF LIMITS to the rest of the team. But most of all to Vaughn, who recently threw a punch at the cap, is not much liked by the Chicago press, the Slayers fans or nearly all of his teammates either, and has his sights set on a trade back to Oregon ASAP...

But what Vaughn does not know is that the "Allie" he had an uber hot one-night stand with eight months ago in Vancouver, and who ran out on him without leaving a number and who he cannot forget is none other than the guy he hates little sis. Natalie is so busted when Vaughn turns up at her door, after discovering who she is... And that she knew who he was all along, and that's why she was using an assumed name. To say he's pissed is putting it mildly, but the truth is he is also hurt. WTF was she thinking, leaving him in the lurch like that after pretty much the best night of his life? Ofc, it's only a matter of time before pissed gives way to provocative, because these two really cannot keep their hands off each other, or any other crucial parts of their anatomy tbf. But while the secret sex scenes are the perfect blend of explosively intense and toe-curlingly spicy, the real secret in this book is that the hard-nosed (and hard everything else) Vaughn, is actually a really sweet guy. But only Natalie ever gets to see that side of him...

Not all that surprisingly, given their explosive chemistry, it doesn't take long before their under-the-radar romance is impossible to keep under the radar (or anything else for that matter).

Once Greg finds out that his rival is secretly dating his kid sister, all hell breaks loose, leaving Vaughn's career in the crosshairs and Natalie having to deal with her big brother's ego explosion. So how is Vaughn not gonna blow up his career and get over the girl he can't have but still wants all the damn time? How is Natalie gonna get her big bro to back the hell off and give her space to figure out that Vaughn is the guy for her? Which is a big ask for her, because she spent her whole life living in the shadow of Greg's career. And she does not want to risk living in the shadow of another man's career - however right he seems....

I'll leave the answers to those crucial questions for you to find out, but I was rooting for them both throughout the fallout, even when they made mistakes. I loved the underlying theme,too, that love is never easy, that chemistry can be dangerous as well as delicious but that ultimately it's the compromises you make and the secrets you are brave enough to share about who you really are, and what you really want that give you the greatest rewards.

What a terrific start to this series, I'm already three books in and I am TOTALLY ADDICTED which is good because I'm now back in a cold and rainy London, and some Slayers Hockey heat is the perfect antedote. So thank you Mira Lyn for giving me my summer back, I appreciate it.

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Wednesday, 13 October 2021

Cover Joy for The CEO's Impossible Heir...

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