Taming the Lion

Lions #6

by Suzanne Barclay

TAMING The LION Sutherland Honour Lay In His Hands Ross Sutherland had one last hope to save his estates, and it meant stealing from Lady Catlyn Boyd. Yet he had no choice, for their common enemy was blackmailing him. But when Ross began to desire the winsome maiden, he knew, no matter what the cost, he would never betray her. Catlyn had once paid a high price for trusting a man. Still, the barely leashed power in Ross's sizzling blue eyes played havoc with her senses, and she longed to be the untamed rogue's lady until she learned that the man whom she trusted for protection was no more than a pawn for her deadliest enemy!

Genres: Historical Romance, Romance, Historical, Medieval, Harlequin

266 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 1999

About the author

Carol Suzanne was born on 20 December 1945 in USA, daughter of Phyllis and Whit Hoose. She married Kenneth E. Backus, and obtained four stepchildren.

Published since 1992 as Suzanne Barclay, was an author for Harlequin Historical, specializing in romance set in the Medieval era. She founded the Lake Country Romance Writers in 1993, and served as the chapter's first president. She passed away on 15 September 1999 after a long battle with cancer.

Reviews

[Kaytlyn Keshick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Learned some new words 😁 was a nice story about a game of cat and mouse in love. The ending was a good wrap up . Some things couldn't be avoided but it all worked out. The fight scenes were pretty exciting. Only two juicy scenes . But it made for a more wholesome story. I could relate to a lot of the emotions which was nice and I read it out loud with my partner so I got to test out some exotic accents which I loved 😍

[Priscilla · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sexto volume da série Lions.

Playboy se lasca durante uma bebedeira e é chantageado por isso. O que é um crime de sequestro durante a Idade Média?

Não é ruim, mas não há nada que chame a atenção na escrita.

[Maura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ross Sutherland gets rip roaring drunk and wakes up to find he's signed away his castle and his heritage and is being blackmailed to get it back. He has to cozy up to Lady Catlyn Boyd so he can steal her recipe for whiskey, the livelihood of her clan. Only he finds that it's quite difficult to betray her since he respects and admires her so much...and the lies between them also mean that he cannot honorably act on the attraction simmering between them. Ross soon finds out that he's being set up; it isn't the secret to the whiskey that the blackmailer wants, but the keep and the distillery itself. And he plans to take it by force. So Ross must do everything he can to protect Catlyn, her clan and its livelihood. But he wonders if she will ever be able to forgive him when she finds out his part in all of it.

This was a fairly average book. This is clearly a very solid author who tells a good story. Catlyn was a little bit frustrating with her pride, but I have seen WAY worse in the world of historical romance. Ross Sutherland was good people who in no way fought the feelings he was developing for Catlyn nor was he ashamed by expressing or feeling his unmasculine love for the heroine. That was refreshing. This author is clearly one for delaying the HEA - she did it in the last story, giving some reason for the heroine to not be completely happy for an extended time before the epilogue. She does it here too. The hero and the heroine first get a sort of HEA for a couple of weeks and live on rather uncertainly before the final HEA comes around. I wasn't so fond of Eoin, nor was I supposed to I think. But after he was an ass for so much of the book I didn't want to forgive him despite his supposed turn around. I thought Ross was way too easy on him.

[Linda C · Rating 3 out of 5]

This concluding volume in the Carmichael/Sutherland medieval series deals with a classic Scottish icon, Scotch whiskey. Catlyn Boyd’s clan has a superior recipe, which her con man neighbor wants by any means. He blackmails Ross Sutherland into attempting to get him the recipe. However, as Ross gets to know Catlyn and uncovers the true motives of her enemy, things change. This was another good tale by Barclay, but did not have a feel like a series was ending. When I looked to see if there might have been more I missed, I found that Ms. Barclay passed away in 1999, the year this was published. A definite loss.

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

good read