Heir to a Dark Inheritance

Heir to a Dark Inheritance
Maisey Yates

They say that Alik Vasin’s heart is carved from the hardest diamond and the coldest ice…Alik is powerful, ruthless, and incapable of love. But when he discovers he has a daughter nothing will stop him from claiming the child as his own. Jada Patel will do whatever it takes to keep little Leena in her life – even if it means a convenient marriage. Though there can never be a future between them, resisting the powerful Alik is impossible.Jada thinks she’s known desire but, catapulted into Alik’s glittering world, she discovers an allconsuming, intoxicating passion that can melt even the coldest of hearts.‘Such intense characters, Maisey Yates just gets better and better for me.’ – Susan, 33, Marketing

He felt as if something was going to burst inside him. As if he was suddenly aware that there was a dam inside him—a great stone wall holding back the potential for torrential destruction.

And he had to stop it. Had to shore it up with something. Something simple. Something he understood. He stood, his hand shaking, his heart thundering.

Jada looked at Alik and froze. She realized in that moment what it was like to be a gazelle, stalked by a predator. Except she wasn’t going to run. She didn’t know why, only that she wouldn’t.

Alik was looking at her as if he wanted her. More than wanted. As if he needed her. There was something dark and deadly in his eyes now. Something desperate. And she liked it, responded to it. It was different than the flat nothingness she usually saw there, different than that blasted false, shallow front he usually put on.

In that moment, as his eyes met hers, everything fell away. Her present, her past. There was nothing but Alik, nothing but the intense, terrible ache he made her feel.

This was frightening. This was real. And it was enticing. A black flame dancing in front of her. So beautiful she couldn’t look away, so dangerous she knew she had to. But she wouldn’t.

Instead she reached out her hand and prepared to touch the fire.

SECRET HEIRS

OF POWERFUL MEN

Their command is about to be challenged!

Sheikh Sayid al Kadar and Alik Vasin

might not be related by blood, but these

brothers-in-arms forged an unbreakable bond

in the line of duty.

They’ve fought for their countries,

for their lives, but has that readied their hearts

for what could be the biggest battle of them all…?

HEIR TO A DESERT LEGACY April 2013

Sheikh Sayid discovers that his brother

is survived by a son, and he’ll do anything to

recover the true heir to the throne. Even if it means

taking on the child’s aunt; she’s like a lioness

who insists on fighting him every step of the way!

HEIR TO A DARK INHERITANCE May 2013

When Alik’s wayward past comes back to haunt him,

he’ll ensure that his young daughter will grow up

with a childhood nothing like his own.

But one woman is standing in his way,

and there may be only one solution…to marry her!

About the Author

MAISEY YATES was an avid Mills & Boon

Modern

Romance reader before she began to write them. She still can’t quite believe she’s lucky enough to get to create her very own sexy alpha heroes and feisty heroines. Seeing her name on one of those lovely covers is a dream come true.

Maisey lives with her handsome, wonderful, diaper-changing husband and three small children across the street from her extremely supportive parents and the home she grew up in, in the wilds of Southern Oregon, USA. She enjoys the contrast of living in a place where you might wake up to find a bear on your back porch and then heading into the home office to write stories that take place in exotic urban locales.

Recent titles by the same author:

HEIR TO A DESERT LEGACY

(Secret Heirs of Powerful Men) HER LITTLE WHITE LIE AT HIS MAJESTY’S COMMAND (The Call of Duty) A GAME OF VOWS

Did you know these are also available as eBooks?Visit www.millsandboon.co.uk

Heir to a

Dark Inheritance

Maisey Yates

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

To Jackie Ashenden,

my writing lifeline and lover of my dark heroes.

Thank you for always encouraging me.

PROLOGUE

ALIK VASIN DOWNED the last of the vodka in his glass and waited for the buzz to make it to his brain. Nothing. It was going to take a lot more alcohol tonight. To have some fun. To feel something.

Either that, or it was going to take a woman. And since that was next on his agenda, he figured he might as well skip the alcohol.