Reese Crane

**Reese Harrington Crane** is the main love interest in **The Billionaire Bachelor** with appearances in **The Billionaire Next Door**, **The Bastard Billionaire** and **A Crane Family Christmas**. Reese is the oldest son of Alex and Luna Crane, the older brother of Tag and Eli and the husband of Merina Van Heusen. He is the CEO, formerly COO, of Crane Holdings.

## Reese Crane

### Alias:

Ice King (by the media)Little Crane (by Merina)

### Family:

Alex Crane (father)
Luna Crane (mother)
Tag Crane (brother)
 Rachel Crane  (sister-in-law)
Elijah Crane (brother)
 Isabella Crane  (sister-in-law)
Merina Crane (wife)
Mark Van Heusen (father-in-law)
Jolie Van Heusen (mother-in-law)

## Appearances

### Books:

The Billionaire Bachelor (main character)
The Billionaire Next Door (cameo)
The Bastard Billionaire (side character)
A Crane Family Christmas (main character)

## Character Background

Reese was born and raised in Chicago. His family is extremely wealthy and for so long his life goal is to be the CEO of the family company, Crane Holdings.

## Relationships

### His Family

Reese is very devoted to his family. He loves and admires his father and is very affected by his mother's death, so much that it made him want to kill himself. He is also very close to his brothers, Tag and Eli.

### Merina Van Heusen

Reese was first fascinated by Merina's tough and feisty personality. Though at first they only married as a business arrangement, they ended up sleeping together, despite their insistence to keep things "business-like". He eventually fell in love with her, but he was too scared to trust another person after what happened with Gwyneth, so he pushed her away and divorced her, despite initially wanting to ask her to stay with him despite what it says in their contract. After their divorce was finalized, he couldn't bear to live with what he had done and decided to try to win her back. He told Merina that he had found home with her, something he hasn't felt since his mother died, and that she meant so much more to him than anything else in the world. She decided to forgive him and they got back together. Some time later, he proposed to her for real. They are engaged as of "The Billionaire Next Door" and married for the second time by the time "The Bastard Billionaire" takes place.

### Gwyneth Sutton

Gwyneth was Reese's girlfriend for four years before she dumped him for Hayes Lerner, whom she had been sleeping with behind his back for some time. According to Reese, he was too young when he was in love with her so he gave her everything she asked. She even lived with him at his mansion. After she left him, he was humiliated and heartbroken. He found it hard to trust a woman with his heart, leading to his playboy lifestyle. Even the bedroom they used to sleep in was left untouched several years after their breakup. As her marriage with Hayes was crumbling, she used her past relationship with him to create a fuss on social media, making things difficult between him and Merina. She even asked him if he would take her back, but Reese turned her down as he was done with her.

## Trivia

* He is around 6 feet tall.
* He and Merina think that *Green Eggs and Ham* by Dr. Seuss are the best children's books ever written. His mother used to read it to him.
* He likes to drink Scotch and *Sauvignon Blanc*.
* In College, he majored in Hotel and Business Administration and minored in Arts History, though his father wanted him to minor in Economics.
* He hates coming to his childhood home as it reminds him of his dead mother but he still does for the sake of his father.
* In High School, he used to host parties at his father's mansion.
* According to Tag, in High School, he was known as "Ice-cold Reese" and that all the girls would swoon over him but he just wanted to be top of his class.
* He was in a relationship with Gwyneth for four years, from age 24-28. Since The Billionaire Bachelor takes place 5 years after their breakup, that puts him around 33 at the start of the story.
* He is a very loving husband, as noted by Isabella Sawyer, that his voice takes on 'a gentle quality' even at the mention of his wife.