“Hands down, one of my fav reads this year!”
– Ilsa Madden-Mills, Wall Street Journal bestselling author
The Legacy, an all-new steamy contemporary romance standalone from Dylan Allen is LIVE!
He’s the king of all he surveys.
Except her.
Exiled for 15 years, Hayes Rivers has finally assumed his place as head of Houston’s oldest and most powerful family.
Now, they call him King.
A legacy of wealth and prestige are his to claim.
As age-old rivalries, long-buried secrets, and generations of betrayal threaten his birthright, he finds himself in a battle for control of his family’s future.
When he meets Confidence, she’s a sweet distraction.
Everything he shouldn’t want.
But after a weekend of passion and surprising intimacy,
he realizes she’s everything he needs
He holds the keys to a kingdom,
But he covets the key to her heart.
And he’ll stop at nothing to claim his queen.
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Dylan Allen is a Texas girl with a serious case of wanderlust.
A self-proclaimed happily ever junkie, she loves creating stories where her characters chase their own happy endings.
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What a journey we go on with this story! Dylan Allen has woven a story that has more twists and turns than a beautifully spun spiders web.
Confidence is a gal who has definitely been around the block a time or two. Life growing up was not easy for her. For years, it has just been her and her mother. Her mother working non-stop to put Confidence through college. Now its Confidence’s turn to take care of her mother.
Landing her first job as a lawyer hasn’t turned out the way she planned.
Hayes was born with the silver spoon in his mouth. Never wanting for anything. Being primed from day one to take over the legacy. Just as his father did and his grandfather did.
The years have passed, and Hayes is in full control.
Can a gal who doesn’t have a pedigree be accepted into the family that is full of proper breeding? These two have one heck of a battle to fight if they plan on staying together! Or will the members of the Legacy make sure that these two stay far apart?
What a great book!
The only thing that took a star away from the rating for me was…the ending. I felt like it was rushed. After uncovering such a wicked twist in the story, the reveal was made but the follow through was non-existent. Which for me, left me with wanting to know more.
Dylan’s trademark is her “off the beaten path” stories which make you think and ponder. A fantastic
& deliberate attempt on her part to not give us the same old-same old, frivolous, cookie-cutter books flooding the market, is what makes them highly anticipated and awaited. Her charm and warmth seeps in the stories all the time
This book is from her bag of Tales From The South. Very Earthy, very heart-touching, very real.
It carries the smells of the Delta & the Mississippi. Salt of the Earth values of the Southern world where honour, integrity and family is still cherished above money, power and success.
The mighty Mississippi runs right through the Midwest, people’s lives are effected by its enormity and it’s power. It truely shapes the beliefs and characters of the inhabitants, I believe.
That river will roll over the delta whenever nature commands her to, without any regard for the best laid plans of mice and men.
Man Proposes ; God Disposes!
What was the accepted norm that Old Money and Bourgeoisie never mixed or were never on the same level, is shattered by this twisted tale of Greed & Avarice. Riverses & Wildes made up The Rivers Wilde
The enclave is home to the two families that it’s named after. The Rivers are old, Texas money. Sugar, oil, and natural gas are how they made their fortune. And with that bounty, they helped found the city of Houston. The Wildes are the new money. The bourgeoisie. They built their wealth in restaurants, grocery stores and real estate. And they have made a fortune that casts the old money into the shade.
The two heirs apparent -Remington Wilde and Hayes Rivers are bred with antagonism ingrained, which they must accept without logic. Hayes has a Family Legacy to live up to. Fill the big shoes of his Grandfather and his Father before him. The trouble is that down the generations the Legacy has become misdefined and unsynchronised with the changing times. The misplaced intentions and snobbery has blinded the “nobility” of the real things that matter in life.
“it’s like fucking Versailles. Your city is drowning and you’re dressed up because it’s Friday.”
Thankfully Hayes grows up in Italy and meets with a “commoner” Confidence Ryan and there’s a strong attraction. She is a typical daughter of the South, who has the tenacity and aggression to weather the biggest of storms in her life. She not only is strong willed and persistent, she steers Hayes on the real path of His legacy as well. She becomes his Moral Compass and doesn’t let him stray.
“philanthropic, but short-sighted men and faithless women. Our legacies— what we choose to leave of ourselves in this world— is up to us,”
“Inheritance is more than just money and name. It’s our values ; it the synchronicity between who we are in private and who we are when the world is watching.”
It’s like she was born into her name and grew up to fill it with her spirit- Confidence!!
Hence her nickname – “TB- Turd Blossom”
“To call yourself a real Texan, you’ve got to have had some shit dumped on you and come up smelling like roses,”
Full of compassion and empathy her heart bleeds for the downtrodden, on the back foot, down on their luck folks- her people. She stands for them and with them every chance she gets and gets real personal and passionate about thier causes and gets overinvolved and over invested. Which is a good thing! Also her relationship with Hayes is getting deeper and wider by the minute, just like the River itself
“I mean that you started like that for me. A pin prick sized drop of water on the very still waters of my life. And the minute you touched me, you caused a ripple that blurred everything I thought I was certain of.”
They land up back in Houston. The story then spreads out like The Delta, there’s calm waters on the surface but major upheavals underneath. Family politics, professional jealousy & rivalry, unexpected liaisons, surprising friendships and the dirty skeletons that come tumbling out of the closets majority effect the plot.
“And now, just like that river you love so much does, it winds its way south, you rush through me, and I’m drowning in you.”
Dylan has written the story with a folklore like feel. I was nodding my head in affirmation at places, was going tsk..tsk..tsk in others. I wanted to slap some people on their heads” didn’t your mama teach you anything” and was horrified at some. But I i thoroughly enjoyed the story. It’s spoke to me, touched me and just flowed right through me. The beautiful lines full of wisdom and good ol adage are what kept me entangled.
There’s two things I’d like to suggest here. I wish it was a duet because there’s so many things left unsaid which could’ve advanced or I’d say embellished the story a bit more. The Remi/Hayes rivalry could’ve been played upon a lot, there was so much potential there. Also some background stuff on their families, his life in italy-struggles and anger I’d have loved to read more of.
But again, it’s just my opinion as a humble reader. See the story was so good I didn’t want it to end and would’ve loved more juicy deets. Hopefully she will give Remington his own book soon..
I started the book with furrow on my brows by ended with a smile on my face.
So go ahead and pick up this book when it releases and enjoy the rich and lush story set in the fertile Mississippi Delta
my god of Sin, my Duke of Midnight, my renaissance man, my heartbreaker, my heart fixer, my everything– 4.5 stars to My King
