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Will he sacrifice everything for the sake of his human mate?

Thwarted in his efforts to become head of the Amsterdam pride of lion shifters, Kaspar de Wit flees to England. He finds himself in Bath, home of the biggest English pride, and begins to make a new life among friends. What he doesn’t know is that he’s moved to a city steeped in bloody ritual. Destiny seems to have drawn Kaspar to the place where he’ll meet his mate–but does something more horrifying lie in wait for him, too?

Jon Fellowes, professor of archaeology at Bath University, is obsessed with the standing stones that dominate the Somerset landscape and the people who raised them. He’s heard tales of strange creatures, half-man, half-lion, that once roamed the land, but dismisses them till he meets the beautiful Kaspar and learns the bizarre truth of his nature. As an ancient rite is revived and terror stalks the countryside, can Jon and Kaspar overcome the natural distrust between humans and shifters to find true love? Or will one of them be forced to make the ultimate sacrifice?

Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of voyeurism, MM orgies and bloody violence.

 

Book Review

‘Taming the Lion’ picks up right where ‘The Pride of Amsterdam’ left off, at the meeting where Arjan, despite the fact that he is gay and has a human mate, is made pride leader by his father. This time I witnessed the event through Kaspar’s eyes – the man who is Arjan’s cousin and had hoped to be picked instead. I have no idea why he figured he’d be the one since he has not done anything with his life so far and is as gay as Arjan. Not that anyone knows this because he had hoped to hide it so he could attain a position of power. Now that he has no hopes left, he decides it is time to leave the Netherlands and ends up picking England, mainly because none of his family members are there. What he runs into is not just a whole lot of growing up, but also another series of murders shrouded in mystery and much darkness.

Kaspar may be almost twenty-five, but he isn’t very mature. He has been biding his time until his trust money becomes available on his next birthday, and he figured he’d be pride leader at some point, so why put any effort into making a life for himself? Now that his plans have been rudely destroyed, he decides to leave the country of his birth and make a new home in England. Something draws him to Bath, another city with a history linked to lions, and he ends up working in a bar. Once he meets his mate he understands why Bath had such a pull on him, but he has no idea what adventures – and danger – await him on top of that.

Jon is a professor of archeology and loves his job. The standing stones of Somerset fascinate him, and all of his research time goes into researching who put them there and why. Jon isn’t very social, so meeting Kaspar is pure coincidence, but once he does, they end up spending a lot of time together very quickly. The standing stones that Jon shows Kaspar have a strange effect on him, but before they can figure out what the problem is, events take off into a rather dark direction.

If you like dark mysteries including orgies and human sacrifice, if you think that a knowledgeable archeologist and a young lion shifter are just the men to solve the mystery, and if you’re looking for a suspenseful coming of age story with a few twists, then you will probably like this novel.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook and print
Length	Novel, 154 pages/52114 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	24-April-2015
Price	$5.50 ebook
Buy Link	http://www.pride-publishing.com/book/taming-the-lion