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Heiress for Hire by Madeline Hunter

April 28, 2020 by Erin Leave a Comment

Heiress for Hire by Madeline HunterHeiress for Hire by Madeline Hunter
Published by Zebra Books on April 28th 2020
Genres: Fiction, General, Historical, Regency, Romance, Women
Pages: 338
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Minerva Hepplewhite has learned the hard way how to take care of herself. When an intruder breaks into her home, she doesn't swoon or simper. Instead, she wallops the rogue over the head and ties him up—only to realize he is Chase Radnor, the man who nearly got her convicted of her late husband's murder. Now, he's insisting that Minerva has inherited a fortune from his uncle, a wealthy Duke. Only one thing could surprise her more: her sudden attraction to this exasperating man...

Chase can't decide whether Minerva is a wronged woman or a femme fatale. Either way, he's intrigued. Since the scandal surrounding her husband's death, she has set up a discreet detective business to rival Chase's own. She may be the perfect person to help him uncover the truth about his uncle's demise. But as proximity gives way to mutual seduction, Chase realizes he craves a much deeper alliance...

Heiress for Hire is a book I saw show up on my Goodreads feed and once I read the summary, I knew I needed to check it out.

Minerva Hepplewhite is the heroine of this story and she hasn’t had an easy way of things so when an intruder breaks into her house, she isn’t one to faint or swoon.  When she realizes who it is that has broken into her home, she knows she faces some decisions she has to make…one of which is whether she can trust the gentleman in question, Chase Radnor, the nephew of the wealthy duke who mysteriously left her a fortune.  I thought Minerva was a solid character and I loved that she wasn’t just your standard member of the ton.  Her backstory made things much more interesting as it gave the story somewhere to go as Chase questions how his uncle died.

Chase Radnor has handled various types of inquiries and when his uncle unexpectedly dies, the Home Office asks him to look into what happened.  The odd thing about the whole situation, outside of how his uncle died, is the fact that there are three mysterious women that his uncle has left his fortune to.  Chase decides to dig into who the ladies are and this ultimately leads him to Minerva.  As he begins to dig into her past, he finds out more about Minerva than he ever expected and add to that the feelings he starts to have for her, and has to determine whether he believes she had something to do with his uncles death or not.

I enjoyed this story.  Minerva tended to be one step ahead of Chase and he never held it against her. I thought the way they began to work together was great and helped to build the base of their relationship.

I also enjoyed the secondary characters in this book as well.  Beth and Jeremy were the family Minerva never really had and I was glad she had that.  Chase’s relationship with both grows throughout the book and I thought that was a great.  Chase’s family was so interesting and I loved his relationship with Nicholas, the new duke.  I’m hoping these characters show up in future books within this series.

Overall, I enjoyed this book and will grab the next book when it is available.  I haven’t read anything by Madeline Hunter before this one but I will be checking out her other stories.  If you’re looking for a historical romance that goes a bit outside the normal society story line, you should check this one out.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the copy in exchange for an honest review.

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