The Bastard and the Heir By Eden Finley and Saxon James
Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM
Tropes: Stepbrothers -to-lovers, forbidden love, billionaire, angsty
Released: January 18, 2024
Publisher: Self-Published
Length: 345 Pages
Cover Design: Story Styling Cover Design
Photographer: Wander Aguiar Photography
Cover Models: Darrien and Ken
DARCY
The death of my father not only rips out my heart but tears open my entire life.
His funeral brings the appearance of his bastard son, the byproduct of my father’s apparent misadventures. Wren Porter is a prickly, untrusting beef cake in an ill-fitting suit, and he looks so much more the part of a Ritcherson than I do.
Now it’s on me to teach him the family business while ignoring my attraction to the man the world thinks is my brother.
All it would take is one misstep for him to find out the secret my father literally took to his grave.
He’s not the bastard son.
I am.
Wren’s the true heir to the Ritcherson fortune, but I’ve fought my whole life for my place at the table. If anyone discovers the truth, I’ll lose everything.
I used to think the worst thing that could happen would be losing the company, but the closer I get to Wren, I realize the biggest thing on the line is my heart.
Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003
A great “taboo” story.
I put “taboo” in quotes in my heading for this review because I don’t really consider this a taboo story; it is a great story, though. Darcy and Wren aren’t related by blood and the readers know that if they read the blurb so that’s why I personally don’t consider this a taboo story. However, in the story only a few people know that Darcy and Wren aren’t related and I guess that’s where the taboo aspect comes into play.
When Wren finds out that his bio-dad left him money he doesn’t want to have anything to do with it or his brothers. The relationship between the siblings starts out very rocky with the two younger brothers not liking Wren at all. Darcy, however, feels guilty that he lived the life that Wren should have had and tries his best to get Wren to take an interest in the family company. Then the feelings start…
I liked the emotional connection between Darcy and Wren and how they worked together. The steamy scenes were also nice. 😊 I got a bit frustrated with Darcy that he didn’t want to try and figure out a way for them to be together but Wren’s solution was perfect.
The epilogue was great and I loved the light-hearted way it started out but I won’t say anything more about that. 😈
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O Factor: Scorcher
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Eden Finley is an Amazon bestselling author who writes steamy contemporary romances that are full of snark and light-hearted fluff.
She doesn’t take anything too seriously and lives to create an escape from real life for her readers. The ideas always begin with a wackadoodle premise, and she does her best to turn them into romances with heart.
With a short attention span that rivals her son’s, she writes multiple different pairings: MM, MMF, and MF.
She’s also an Australian girl and apologises for her Australianisms that sometimes don’t make sense to anyone else.
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Saxon James unapologetically writes happy endings for LGBT+ characters.
While not writing, SM is a readaholic and Netflix addict who regularly lives on a sustainable diet of chocolate and coffee.
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