Would discovering the true identity of someone, met under false pretenses, destroy the attraction or confirm deep prejudices?
A “Cruise to Nowhere” allows passengers to escape reality by hiding who they truly are. Investigative journalist, Josie Barone, hopes to escape her disappointing love life and mounting professional pressures. Billionaire heir, Drew Harper, boards the same ship seeking freedom from business obligations and his father’s relentless push toward an arranged business marriage.
Though neither expects to find love, their undeniable attraction becomes an interracial romance. But when the cruise ends, reality returns with devastating consequences.
Richard Harper dies, and his Will reveals an explosive secret, the exclusion of his family from the fortune, and an unknown woman and her daughter as his heirs. It’s a news story that impacts Josie’s career. A shake-up at her cable news station forces her to investigate Drew now that he is the new CEO, or lose her cable-host position.
It’s a conflict that pits Josie and Drew against each other professionally and blinds them from recognizing who they are. If they can’t expose their cruise identities, then the Harper family’s deceptions and hidden agendas will threaten their newfound love and upend their lives. The Harper’s will win because right now, Josie and Drew are enemies and not lovers.
Their Secret is Book One of The Harper Inheritance, a six-book billionaire romantic suspense series.
Tropes:
● Power Play
● Love at First Sight
● Secret Identity
● Family Drama
● Forced Proximity
● Enemies to Lovers
● Billionaire Romance
● Forbidden Love
● Twisted Inheritance
● Murder Mystery
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From Corinne Julienne comes THEIR UNION, the second book in The Harper Inheritance, a five-novel romantic suspense series set in New York City, and Florence, Italy.
Everyone dreams of having money. Inheriting twelve billion dollars is the dream of all dreams. But what if it is a nightmare in disguise?
When Josie Barone and Drew Harper met on a Cruise to Nowhere they didn’t know the identity of the other. Now they have feelings for each other but must keep their relationship a secret because of the perception of a conflict of interest in their careers, as they are put in close proximity with the other once more.
As an investigative journalist, Josie discovers, a truth that could impact her relationship with Drew, tank her career, and destroy the two people she loves the most…her parents. Drew becomes the new CEO of Darnelle Inc. and must save his family’s company from the retribution of a competitor; while placating his mother and brother’s demands as the Executor to his father’s estate.
The problem is: the inheritance puts them unwittingly at odds with the other, actualizing their greatest fears. For if one succeeds the other loses and so could their love.
Tropes:
● Arranged Marriage
● Secret Identity
● Family Drama
● Office Romance
● Corporate Espionage
● Billionaire Romance
● Forbidden Love
● Twisted Inheritance
● Death by Broken Heart
● Grand Romantic Gesture
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Their Ordeal
Josie and Drew are in the honeymoon stage of their marriage. They’re making their home in the apartment Josie inherited from her parents that overlooks the Arno River in Florence, Italy.
But within months, it’s apparent that Drew’s family’s disinheritance from the estate, now valued at thirty-six billion dollars, is a dangerous situation. The distance of the Atlantic Ocean no longer provides a safety buffer for Josie and Drew.
The deprived Harpers are intent on rectifying the omission, whether or not someone physically pays the price for getting their share of the inheritance. Josie fears it will be Drew, and Drew fears it will be Josie.
They must get rid of the inheritance money to ward off the actions of Louise and Aubrey Harper.
But the solution of their protection triggers the fulfillment of their nightmares.
Who will pay the price, and by which Harper?
Tropes:
● Blood Money
● Killers for Hire
● Family Betrayal
● Honeymoon Interrupted
● Love on the Run
● Billionaire Romance
● Forbidden Love
● Fatal Loyalty
● Love and Survival
● Lovers in Peril
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Their Crisis
What began as a dream location, living happily ever after in the beautiful city of Florence, Italy, quickly turns into a living nightmare for Josie and Drew Harper.
Consumed by guilt over what happened to Drew, at the hands of his vengeful family, Josie thinks she failed him. She was slow to recognize the same evil that destroyed her parents–the Harper Inheritance, and it was about to ravage Drew, too.
Now, Drew is a shell of the mesmerizing man he once was. He fears his manhood has been destroyed, the permanence of the physical impairments he now has, and the public ridicule from the abuse he endured may hamper his future and his relationship with Josie.
With a vow to have a second chance at happiness, Josie and Drew hide from those they know, in the one place no one would think to look for them…back in Manhattan! A secret penthouse loft, with no connection to them, becomes their sanctuary and source of renewal.
Tropes:
● Dark billionaire family secrets and drama
● Second Chance Romance
● Betrayal Trauma
● Vengeful Ex-Girlfriend
● Billionaire Romance
● Forbidden Love
● Love and Survival
● Unlikely Alliance
● Steamy Interracial Romance
● Later in Life
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