The Heir by Grace Burrowes (Terra's Review)

An earl who can't be bribed...

Gayle Windham, earl of Westhaven, is the first legitimate son and heir to the duke of Moreland. To escape his father's inexorable pressure to marry, he decides to spend the summer at his townhouse in London, where he finds himself intrigued by the secretive ways of his beautiful housekeeper...

A lady who can't be protected...

Anna Seaton is a beautiful, talented, educated woman, which is why it is so puzzling to Gayle Windham that she works as his housekeeper.

As the two draw closer and begin to lose their hearts to each other, Anna's secrets threaten to bring the earl's orderly life crashing down-and he doesn't know how he's going to protect her from the fallout...

(Terra's Thoughts)  This was such an incredible book that I couldn't put it down.  It carries itself nicely from the first page to the very last at a pace that is perfectly executed.  The cover of the book is beautiful but it doesn't begin to do justice to what is in between.

The story has a strong heroine and an even stronger hero with lots of romance and nice hot bits of sex that will leave you tingling in their aftermath. 

This is a story of secrets that will drive you to the end of your seat in anticipation, of love and longing of what shouldn't be but will be if fickle fate gets its way.  A story of an employer and employee that shouldn't, of blue blood and peasant blood that is forbidden to mingle.  But, most of all a story of two fates that cannot wait and nothing on Earth can get in their way or can it?

Anna Seaton is wonderful at what she does best.  Hide!  Young and far to pretty to be a housekeeper but low and behold she is, Anna runs from place to place after short bouts of employment to escape a horror that would make anyone in their right mind cringe and run in the opposite direction as quickly as possible.

Gayle Windham, earl of Westhaven is a handsome man with a code of honor that is to be admired by all.  He is a man true to his family in all ways except that which is most important and that is the finding of a mate and begetting of an heir.  Our delicious earl gets a run for his money from dear ole papa who haunts him mercilessly about his duty as the heir to the Duke or Moorland.  Will the earl cave in to duty or continue to try and out maneuver dear ole papa?

Ahh.........theirs nothing like a good romance with heat that sizzles and secrets that eventually fizzle.

Mass Market Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca; Original edition (December 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1402244347
ISBN-13: 978-1402244346