The Heir Series is the AU story of Helena and Myka set in New York City after Helena has been debronzed and released from the Warehouse. Now Helena is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of her own company and Myka is hired as her Chief Counsel (lawyer for the firm). Surrounded by the characters we love (and I don't own) from WH 13, but in new AU roles, the heroines will start to build their lives together. The following is a brief summary of each of the earlier Heir stories.
Since they are primarily character development based, there are no deep plotlines that you'll miss if you simply start with Part 6.
What is important is something any BW fan already knows – Helena and Myka are destined to be together.
A Certain Heir
Helena has been relieved of duty from the Warehouse and has formed her own private company called Wells Corp in New York City. She is the CEO, Pete is in charge of Security, Claudia is head of IT, Artie is the Office Manager, and her beloved Mrs. Irene Frederic is the Director of Human Resources. When Helena fires the person in charge of their legal department, Irene Frederic hires a young and promising lawyer named Myka Bering.
Myka is there only a short time when she is called upon to help her boss out of a sexual harassment suit brought on by a former employee after a tryst. When Myka meets Helena, sparks fly and the clash ensues. Helena Wells isn't used to people telling her that she can't do something. She makes life very challenging for Myka while at the same time, slowly finding herself being swept off her feet by the feisty lawyer. When Helena sets her sights on getting Myka, Myka isn't so easily swayed. She's trying to find her way now that she's out on her own. Things are complicated by the fact that Sam is in Myka's life and Helena cannot dispose of him quickly enough. But Myka is about to tell Helena, that the Brit might rule Wells Corp and maybe even the rest of Manhattan, but she is not going to rule Myka.
It becomes a cat and mouse game, with Helena doing all the chasing. Even when Myka quits working for Helena and returns to Colorado, Helena follows her. Myka's world is turned upside down and she refuses Helena's advances. It is only when Helena finally leaves, that Myka realizes this is the person she's been waiting for all her life.
Myka finally does the pursuing – and finds her way back to New York to tell Helena how she truly feels. Their connection begins anew as they begin to accept what everyone else knows about them – that they are destined to be together.
The Heir Apparent
Helena and Myka have come to a meeting of the minds, and Part II will take us through how they have a meeting of the hearts. Will Helena's past let her choose another "One"? The Regents will put Helena to the test and thereby test Myka as well. We will meet more of the staff of Wells Corp and learn how they do everything in their power to help Helena and Myka be together.
The Warehouse is aware that Helena wants to choose Myka as her 'One'. Helena, in a moment of desperation, had chosen Irene to be her One. But that was all before Myka arrived and stole her heart. Now that they are together, Helena wants to choose Myka. When the Regents finds out about this, they come after Helena and take her back for breach of contract.
The Wells Corp Team join forces and sets out to rescue Helena after being bronzed again. Claudia will get them in the Warehouse, Pete will be their muscle, Irene will speak on Helena's behalf to the Regents, but it is Helena's assistant – Eileen Sullivan – who will help Myka trust that she is the only one who can really save Helena. The Warehouse itself will approve of the transfer of Oneness – from Irene to Myka – and allow Helena to leave.
The Rarified Heir
As Myka settles into her life with Helena, there are a few surprises in store. For one, Helena's past keeps coming up – this time in the form of a former fiancé. But Myka is determined not to let Helena's former life get in the way of their future. Helena will solve Kryptos, meet CIA agents, and invent a black glove that will send Myka over the edge – in public! Helena will be sent to Anger Management after an altercation when someone gets too close to Myka. Myka will find that as Chief Counsel for Wells Corp, her main job seems to be keeping Helena out of trouble.
Leena hires interns from the Fashion Institute of Technology to staff Helena's wardrobe closet. The investment banker – Bridget Cummings - working for Helena will make a move on Myka, but quickly realizes that Myka's heart belongs to Helena. She and Myka will become good friends.
Helena may want to save Myka from harm's way, but it turns out Myka is up for the task of rescuing Helena from a gang related incident in Central Park. And just when things look like they're settling down for our two heroines, the Bering's visit for Thanksgiving. Helena does her best to charm them, as Myka slowly breaks it to them that she's living with Helena now. Her parents are now concerned that being so friendly with the boss will only end up in getting Myka fired. Myka learns to defend her choices - especially the one about Helena.
The Unconditional Heir
When Myka encourages Helena to write again and manages to find a pen that once belonged to HG Wells and gives it to Helena for Christmas – Helena does. "Once upon a time on a tiny island in a grand metropolis, lived two people who were very much in love. From the moment Helena set eyes on the fair Myka, she knew she had never met anyone quite like her. Their start had not been smooth, but once Helena came to her senses and realized that Myka was all she ever wished for, their friendship began and flourished. Their love became legendary. This is their story," the great HG Wells read to her most ardent admirer.
And so Part IV tells how Myka blossoms in her own right and Helena tempers her ways now that she has everything she's ever dreamed of.
Helena prides herself on having a plan for everything. She has seen to it that her successor is in place for the day she no longer runs Wells Corp. And she has seen to take Myka on the adventures only a genius in love could come up with.
An Heir of Confidence
Helena's discovery that she has a relative is confirmed and she sets out to teach the young Eileen Sullivan what it is like to be a Wells and what it will take for her to run Wells Corp someday.
Helena and Myka return from their first real vacation after spending a glorious week on Melody Island in the Florida Keys. Myka doesn't know it yet, but Helena will purchase the private island for Myka.
Tracy Bering will visit her sister, and old wounds from Myka's childhood will open. Helena wants to immediately eradicate the cause, but learns to trust that Myka can handle her own affairs.
There's a traitor at Wells Corp trying to sell trade secrets. But the team will once again come together to protect Helena and Wells Corp. When she finds out about it, Helena uses it to her advantage and feeds the traitor information about Eileen being Helena's long-lost relative. Myka marvels at the way Helena teaches the youth what it will take for her to run the company explaining that it is only a baptism by fire that will train her best.
The students who have been interning in Helena's closet will graduate and Helena gives them sage advice as their commencement speaker.
Helena and Myka are both ready to propose and each will do it in her own unique way. They become the toast of the town and the subject of the latest media frenzy. What will the future hold for them? As far as Helena is concerned: anything that Myka's heart desires.
Myka experiences their Oneness head on when Mrs. Frederic has a heart attack. But Helena is there to save her – in a way only Helena can – and without permission of course.
The new TV series about HG Wells will get a new producer/director when the old one goes against canon, and the actresses who play the characters (Jaime Murray and Joanne Kelly) will get the recognition they deserve in the form of Emmy awards for their work.
All the time, Helena and Myka will explore their lives together, convinced more than ever that their lives and destinies are forever entwined.
And now I hope you'll join us for the next installment which follows.
