Lion's Shadow

by Elizabeth Hunter

Almost in spite of herself, Gemma Savage found herself falling in love with Venice. She felt immediately at home living in the decaying palazzo, a relic of another time, with the grandmother she had never known. Only arrogant Marco Andreotti remained to torment her.

Marco--the man who had forced her to leave England and who now seemed determined to make her his wife despite his obvious attraction to another woman. She knew that Marco was a man she could love, but with his one-sided definition of marriage, was he a man she could trust with her heart?

192 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1980

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Elizabeth Mary Teresa de Guise, née Hunter on 24 October 1934 in Nairobi, Kenya. She spent much of her years in Kenya and South Africa, and studied at the Open University. Her brother Alexander also wrote Western novels. After their parents' divorce, she and her sister, decided change their surname by de Guise.

Elizabeth wrote under the pseudonym of Isobel Chace, and under her real names: Elizabeth Hunter and Elizabeth de Guise. She was a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Elizabeth passed away in May 2005, at 70.

Reviews

[Caz · Rating 1 out of 5]

5 pages in and already the TSTL heroine has let a complete stranger into her apartment and just stands there while he fondles her hair.

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

My older sister was always exchanging books in a public library near our house, and once she brought home "The Lion's Shadow". After she read it, she lended it to me and I read it as well. In the end, we were both in love with Marco Andreotti lol
A very smooth romance with a lot of in-betweens! I would love to read it once again someday, specially now that I am older, just to see whether Marco is still so wonderful as he seemed to me when I was 12.