Lion of Steel by Kathryn LeVeque is a moving medieval romance. Ok. I admit it. I dropped everything and moved this to the top of my queue. I love LeVeque’s novels and this was no different. De Lohr. Does that ring a bell? Well this is Douglas, one of Chris’ younger sons. An ally has called for help and Chris has sent it. Now he wants Douglas and his army to stay for three months to make sure the danger is really past. A greedy man had seen a sister, after her brother died, and sought to take all that was theirs by forcing her to marry him. When asked, she said to let him go back to his manor and be done. With it. Douglas didn’t agree, but acquiesced. Douglas was a very attractive man and Lady Isabella fostered a number of young women who were 12-18. They all fancied themselves in love, some more than others, and they followed him around and made nuisances of themselves. He sought to make it stop by making a deal with Mira in which they appeared to to be enamored of one another. It worked, for all but one of them, who was not a really nice person. Astoria, and she was a plotter and determined to make Douglas her own. As the reader might expect this ended in tragedy.
How LeVeque keeps conjuring up these storylines is beyond me. This story is different and original, if not heart-breaking. So may die. Douglas is a LeVeque hero, which is to day, handsome, strong, brave, and all that a knight should be. Mira’s birth name is Misery. Her mother gave birth to twins and named them Payne and Misery. Imagine her childhood. Lady Isabel was a loving woman that wanted the best for people and she worked hard to get it. It was a wonderful story, well-deserved as part of the De Lohr legacy. Thanks, Kathryn LeVeque!
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