Synopsis

Two rival families. A marriage between their heirs. In public, it's love. But in private? It's war. Aiden Prince is the arrogant heir to the old money family that destroyed mine. Hazel-eyed and sharp-jawed, the golden boy of high society. I'm the girl who never belonged in his world. At sixteen, I poured my soda on his loafers. He told me to lick it off. At eighteen, I learned the truth — Aiden's family took everything from mine. I vowed to make everyone who mocked us eat their words. At thirty, I have the chance to get back everything the Princes stole... but I have to marry Aiden to do it. In public, we're the perfect couple. In private, we're playing a dangerous game — the first one to desire the other loses.

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My review

The Heir came to me with exactly the tropes I love most, enemies to lovers and arranged marriage, and it delivered on every count. Sophia Travers builds a story that has real history behind it: Emory and Aiden don't meet in a vacuum, they arrive carrying years of family rivalry, accumulated resentment, and a tension that was installed long before either of them could do anything about it. That backstory changes everything. The marriage of convenience doesn't feel forced because you understand exactly why both of them agree to it, and that makes the game between them, first one to desire the other loses, genuinely tense. Aiden is the kind of cold hero who unravels slowly, and when he starts to fall, he falls completely. I loved it.

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