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The Silver Lion
The Silver Lion
The Silver Lion
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The Silver Lion

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A deceptively demure beauty. A man of such breathtaking appeal that women compare him to the angels. Can their sensual attraction overcome a veil of secrets that links her to his bitter enemy?

Book Three of Lynn Kerstan's elegant trio of Regency historicals.

Miss Helena Pryce continues her journey through Regency society as an intriguing, modest, and respectable mystery. Confident servant, dutiful secretary, or something far less tame? Her confidence only seems to waiver in the presence of Lord Varden, a worldly bachelor who astounds his vivacious female relatives by deciding to settle down. He'll marry within the next year. And his intended? The amusingly unsuitable Miss Pryce. She just doesn't know it.
Can a lowly secretary marry an Earl? And what of his notoriously unpredictable affections? Can she overlook the propriety of society to find her heart's true desire?
Varden finds himself in quite the predicament when his unlikely temptress insists they avoid romantic entanglements and, instead, find the missing Duke of Tallant. His sworn enemy, the man who took away his only love. Why does Miss Pryce insist he resolve that old animosity before she'll consider becoming his wife?
Can the two of them move on from past secrets to see a future together?
LanguageEnglish
PublisherBelleBooks
Release dateNov 29, 2012
ISBN9781611942361
The Silver Lion
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Lynn Kerstan

Lynn Kerstan, former college professor, folksinger, professional bridge player, and nun, is the award-winning author of nine Regency romances, seven historical romances, and several novellas. A dedicated traveler and lover of history, she writes romantic adventures set in early 19th-Century England, where intrepid women and elegant, dangerous men are to be found, For many years a teacher of English literature and writing at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and the University of San Diego, Kerstan now conducts popular-fiction workshops for writers groups and conferences. When off-duty, she lives an exemplary life in Coronado, California, where she plots her stories while riding her boogie board, walking on the beach, and watching Navy SEALs jog by.

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    When I read this story I wasn’t aware that it was a part of a trilogy and that this was the last one of the series, but now I’ll make sure to read all of them even though this book left me torn about if I liked it enough to bother with the other books.

    Have you ever read a book that was well written and plotted, but still left you feeling somehow robbed of the connection to either hero or the heroine?

    That’s exactly what this book did to me!

    I liked the fast pace of it, the plot and the mystery; intrigue and dialogue all came perfectly together, yet I felt no chemistry between the hero and heroine, and I’m not sure why. I want to say it’s because I wasn’t there in the first two books of the series where they initially get introduced to the series, but that can’t be it. The author does fairly good job in making sure I’m brought up to speed on the other ‘happenings’.

    So that leaves me with characterization of the two main protagonists, Derek Leighton and Helena Pryce. While I thought that Helena was a well fleshed out and three-dimensional, Derek on the other hand felt more like he needed a bit more added to him to feel like a three-dimensional character.

    From the start of the story I thought him cold and callous; selfish and uncaring and really hoped that my feelings toward him would change as I kept reading, but alas I came to dislike him even more, especially after bedding Helena, yet admitting his love for another woman. That just rubbed me the wrong way! After that, nothing could convince me that these two should or could be together.

    The part I enjoyed, and the reason for me giving this series another chance is the mystery aspect of the story. That was well-developed and executed and kept me reading on.

    Because this is the last book in this series, I recommend [if you decide you want to read it] you read them in order, as I should have [The Golden Leopard, Heart Of The Tiger and Silver Lion].

    Also, if you’re more into the ‘romance’ of the story, then you might not like it as much, because this reads more like a ‘who done it’ rather than a ‘romance’ book.

    Melanie for b2b

    *Book provided by publisher through NetGalley

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