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Lion'S Lady (The Sutherland Series) (Historical)

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This book is so awsome, I did'nt want it to end. Once you start you can not put it down. It feels like you've been warped back in time to a heart pounding, beautiful, excitng place you wont want to leave. I've read plenty of romance novels this ranks in my top five! I would like to read other of Barclay's novels although they are very hard to find.

This book is so fabulous. I could not put it down. The beginng of
the book leaves you feeling Rowena's heartbreak over Lion Sutherlands
disappearance. She weds another man, who knows she is carrying Lions
child. There is a great upheaval of the clans and Rowena is bound to
protect her husbands clan, the Gunns, and her son, Paddy, is to be the
heir. Lion returns home and meets Rowena again, the same sparks fly
between them. After much battling and intrigue, Lion meets Paddy and
realizes that Paddy is really his son. Rowena is a strong, beautiful,
passionate lady and Lion is a strong, handsome [and] courageous....I
have read this book 3 times and want to read her previous books in the
Sutherland series, but I can't find them.

Rowena McBean is a character that you will find yourself cheering onward as she protects her son from the evil side of her clan. After her husband is killed under suspicious circumstances, she embarks on a do-or-die mission to ensure her young son is raised as a future clan leader should be....all the while fending off passionate advances from the alpha males in the nearby clans.

Reading an historical romance can be an enjoyable thing when you know it is not an epic novel and is longer than a novella. It makes it even more enjoyable when the author takes the time to do research and gives the reader a glimpse into what the world was like in the time the story is set. I found Suzanne Barclay's Lion's Lady such a read.

The story is about a young girl who is in love with a Highlander chief's son. When Rowena learns she is pregnant, she wants to tell him the truth at their next secret meeting. But he never shows. He reportedly has already left for France. Another man who needs an heir has discovered her secret and quickly convinces her of the wisdom in marrying him and letting him claim the child. All is fine until her husband dies with his heir only five years old. Intrigue sets in as Rowena does everything she can to protect her son from his conniving uncle. What she doesn't expect is that by doing so, she is thrown together with her old lover, Lion, and the father of her child.

Romance, murder, and mystery get me every time. I enjoyed it as I tried to figure out all the secrets. I did get over half the mysteries solved of who tried to kill who, who murdered who, who betrayed who. But Ms. Barclay threw a few curve balls at me.

If you don't like detailed love scenes, I do want to warn you that this book has two and a half of them. ( I say half because one only begins.) They are easily skipped over if you still want to enjoy the rest of the story.

Rowena's character is incredible, she is strong-willed and determined. As you read, you find yourself being pulled into the story so vividly that reality is a far-off land.

....Short version in English: Scotland in
1390. Rowena was left alone by her young lover as a girl and had to
find a husband who would raise her lovechild as his own. Later as a
widow she has to protect her son in a time of political turbulence,
and meets her lover Lionel again. He has never stopped loving her, and
while he is fighting to prevent a war in Scotland, he wants to win
back her heart. But the odds are against him, in every way. GREAT
STUFF.

Inhalt

Rowena McBean und Lion(el) Sutherland treffen sich
als Jugendliche an einem Dorffest. Sie werden ein Paar und schwören
sich ewige Liebe, obwohl sie wissen, dass Lion vorerst für drei Jahre
nach Frankreich gehen wird. Als Rowena erfährt, dass sie schwanger
ist, wartet sie vergebens am üblichen Treffpunkt auf ihren Geliebten.
Völlig verzweifelt nimmt sie das grosszügige Angebot von Laird Padruig
Gunn an, sie zu heiraten und das Kind als seinen Erben
aufzuziehen.

Sechs Jahre später herrscht Krisenstimmung im
schottischen Hochland. Der Bruder des Königs, Alexander Stewart, Earl
of Buchan (auch der Wolf von Badenoch genannt), will die wilden Clans
befrieden und unter sich vereinen. Clan Sutherland weiss, dass
Alexander in Wirklichkeit seinen Bruder entthronen will, doch dafür
braucht es Beweise. Während Vater Lucais zum König reist, spielt Lion
ein doppeltes Spiel: er schliesst sich Alexander an, gewinnt dessen
Vertrauen, und versucht, an die nötigen Beweise für den Verrat
heranzugelangen. Ausserdem versucht er die Führer der anderen Clans
daran zu hindern, voreilig gegen Alexander vorzugehen....

Beurteilung

Ein wunderschönes Buch mit einem wahren
Traumpaar in der Hauptrolle. Lion ist nicht nur ein mutiger und
gewandter Krieger, er hat auch Humor und kann sanft und einfühlsam
sein, zeigt Gefühle und fürchtet sich auch mal. Liebenswert sind auch
seine vergeblichen Bemühungen, nicht auf Paddy, den er ja für Padruigs
Sohn hält, eifersüchtig zu sein. Rowena ist völlig überzeugend in
ihrer Zerrissenheit: sie trägt eine riesige Verantwortung als Mutter
auf ihren Schultern, und doch ist da in ihr noch immer das junge
Mädchen, das sich nach Liebe und Spass sehnt.

Die Geschichte mag in
meiner Zusammenfassung etwas kompliziert klingen, sie ist es aber
nicht. Die Autorin behält immer den Überblick und obwohl sie die
Handlung mit viel Temp