A Reluctant Heiress

Alexia Hale did not want to become the CEO of a huge charitable foundation and she was well aware of the by-laws governing who could be the chief executive officer. Since there were no male heirs, the Chief Executive officer position fell to Lexi, and if she refused the position, she had to recommend someone to take her place. Her aunt Edwina believed that the position should be hers as the only other living Hale heir, but there was something about that scenario that made Lexi very uneasy.Orphaned by a plane crash that took her parents, Lexi was given over to her aunt who took her from boarding school and they embarked on the long trip to New York City for the emergency Executive Board meeting at the Hale Foundation. Edwina was impervious to the shock that held her niece silent as she made her case that she should lead the Hale Foundation until Lexi became twenty-one.Daniel Whitlaw had been Andrew Hale's trusted assistant for only a short time, hired while Lexi was in boarding school. Edwina's hope of becoming CEO of the Hale Foundation was brutally crushed by an overwhelming vote of confidence that put Daniel in charge of the Hale Foundation until Lexi was twenty-one.Edwina swallowed her rage at being shut out of the CEO position. She would raise her niece but she was determined she would get the position she believed belonged to her, and she did not care what she had to do to get it.

Author: Helen E. Weeks

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: 44020

Number of Pages: 290 pages

Binding: Fiction

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ISBN-13: 9798664659122