The Heir Apparent by Tere Michaels | Cat's Release day Review, Excerpt & #giveaway @Dreamspinners @TereMichaels

The heir apparent to a vast international company, Henry Walker has focused his entire life on pleasing his cold and distant father, a futile effort that’s left him no time for life, love, or making his own decisions. He has just one friend—one dirty little secret—Archie Banks. Raised on the Walker estate alongside Henry, Archie is now Henry’s driver, bodyguard… and occasional lover. Archie is loyal, but he’s about to graduate from college and has plans for his life that don’t include living every moment at the beck and call of Henry’s father. Not even for Henry.

With no warning, a shocking kidnapping leads to tragedy and chaos, thrusting Henry and Archie into a dramatic struggle that threatens them individually and as a couple. Can they find a way to heal the hurt of the past, save the company that is Henry’s birthright, and find a future together?

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Cat gives this one 5 Meows with a 3 Purr heat index...

Cover Love: I really like the cover. I think its sexy and shows a touch of intrigue.

Henry is the only son of a wealthy businessman and vast empire. His driver Archie has worked for him for as long as he can remember coming when he was a young boy staying with is momma the cook.  Archie is now Henry's personal driver and bodyguard until he graduates college this semester and finds a job.  He and Henry are also friends with benefits.

Henry's father has a bad heart and recently come back from a trip wit is fourth wife Libby.Henry kind of rides his dads coattails and does what e is told. he hasn't come out afraid it would cause problems with his dad and cost him his job.

There is a kidnapping causing Henry's dad to die, a twist in the will, and a few more twists that bring Henry and Archie closer but will Henry come out of the closet when the mystery is solved?

I loved this story. It got me from the beginning and held my attention and had me turning the page.I loved the dynamics of the two men and how they fit. The mystery was pretty good though it was easy and light. The book is all over a great read with lots of passion. The sex is a semi-open door, sexy but not over the top explicit

If you like friends to lovers, interoffice romance, billionaires, mystery and suspense and moderate man-sex you will like this book.

Excerpt...

Chapter One

FROM THE penthouse of 15 Central Park West, Henry Walker watched the sun come up from an insomniac sprawl on the floor of his bedroom. He suspected there was a Henry-shaped body indent in the plush white carpet, from all the nights he’d spent watching the New York City skyline blink over the tops of the Central Park trees. Without looking Henry knew his alarm would begin its shrill insistence in less than two minutes and his day as Norman Walker’s heir would begin.

The sheets were wrapped around him, pulled off the bed when he gave up staring at the ceiling at around three. Henry timed the twist and turn, arching one long arm to slap the alarm just before it clicked to six.

Practice makes perfect.

Henry unraveled himself from the covers, rolling until he was lying in an undignified, naked, starfished heap in the middle of his bedroom floor. Not exactly the next cover of New York Business Weekly, but pushing back into the rug, letting himself sink a bit deeper….

… imagining sinking all the way down into the floor and hiding….

His backup alarm—all the way in the kitchen, so he had to get up—began chirping, chasing away the weirdness of his thoughts.

And so began his Tuesday, like every Tuesday before it. The cogs in the wheel of his life were turning and he had a schedule to keep.

Shower time. If he skipped conditioner, he might just have time to jerk off. 

 Tere Michaels unofficially began her writing career  at the  age of four when she learned that people got  paid to write  stories. It seemed the most perfect and  logical job in the world and after that, her path was  never in question. (The  romance writer part was  written in the stars—she was  born on Valentine’s  Day.)

It took thirty-six years of “research” and “life  experience” and well… life… before her first book  was published but there are no regrets – she doesn’t  believe in them. Along the way, she had some  interesting jobs in television,  animation, arts education, PR and a national magazine—but she never stopped believing she would eventually earn her living writing stories about love.

She is a member of RWA, Rainbow Romance Writers, and Liberty States Fiction Writers. Her home base is a small NJ suburb outside of Manhattan – a city she dearly loves. She shares her life with her husband, a teenaged son—who will just not stop growing—and two exceedingly spoiled cats. Her spare time is spent watching way too much sports programming, going to the movies and for long walks/runs in the park, reading her book club’s current selection, and thinking about superheroes.

Nothing makes her happier than knowing she made a reader laugh or smile or cry. It’s the purpose of sharing her work with people. She loves hearing from fans and fellow writers, and is always available for speaking engagements, visits and workshops. 

• Website: http://www.teremichaels.com
• Twitter: @TereMichaels

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