{"product_id":"the-heirs-burden-adrian-vale-9798180628367","title":"The Heir's Burden: A Slow Burn Billionaire Romance with an Art Consultant, Family Secrets, and Quiet Luxury Tension","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHe inherited the building. She taught him how to see it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Whitmore does not do unexpected things.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the heir to one of New York's most powerful old-money families, his life is built on structure, responsibility, and control. The Whitmore name carries weight. The family building carries history. And James has spent years making sure both remain standing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Sera Calloway arrives with an art assessment, a covered painting, and a way of seeing rooms that makes every inherited certainty feel unfinished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSera is not impressed by wealth. She is interested in accuracy. As an art consultant, she reads spaces, objects, light, silence, and the people who think they can hide inside them. The Whitmore building should be just another commission, but the more time she spends inside its rooms, the more she understands the man carrying its entire history on his shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames should keep the line clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSera should finish the commission and leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut every painting placed, every room restored, and every private conversation makes the boundary between professional and personal harder to defend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen family legacy, public pressure, and old secrets begin to shift around them, James must decide whether inheritance is only a burden, or whether love can become part of what a future is built on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Heir's Burden is Book One in the Ivory Tower series, a slow burn billionaire romance with quiet luxury, emotional tension, family legacy, and a powerful love story built room by room.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adrian Vale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180628367\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Adrian Vale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173572976895,"sku":"9798180628367","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-heirs-burden-adrian-vale-9798180628367","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}