Lion in Love
Elizabeth LapthorneBDSM
Available from Ellora's Cave
January 2004
| Anne Renkin is a single mom struggling to make a life for herself and her five-year-old son, Nathan. She has little time to waste on the dating scene. Especially since the few men she’s dated since being deserted by her ex-husband have been so pathetic they’ve never progressed to a physical relationship. Not that it is necessarily her dates’ fault. They are all nice men, but that is the problem. Anne’s fantasies are dark and submissive. She’s never explored that side of her nature, but she wants one Dominant/submissive relationship before she settles for a straight vanilla man to be a good father and role model for her son.
Leo Ashcroft is Nathan’s teacher. His students adore him and their mothers drool over him. Tall, with wicked green eyes and a sinful body, he keeps his private life just that, private. He notices the five foot eight beauty, Nathan’s mom, when she picks her son up after school. Not only notices her, but has several dark fantasies about things he’d like to do to her luscious body. But he knows it can never progress beyond a fantasy. He can just imagine how long he’d keep his job if word got out that he is a Dom looking for a sub. Leo can hardly believe his eyes when he sees Anne at a bondage pickup party in a distant neighboring town. When he realizes that she is obviously looking for a partner, he makes his way to her side determined to claim her. He is so tired of submissive partners who can’t make up their own minds about anything. He wants a woman who is submissive in the bedroom, but a person with a mind and an opinion of her own outside the bedroom. So far, he hasn’t found her. But what happens when Leo and Anne discover the heat between them only fuels more fantasies? Can Leo convince Anne that even a Dominate male in the bedroom can be a good role model for a young boy? Lion in Love, by Elizabeth Lapthorne, is hot and steamy and still fun. At last, an author who brings the Dom/sub relationship into the real world with ordinary people and ordinary jobs and all of the messy little details of real life. Children. Reputations. Fears and doubts. If you’re looking for a lighter Dom/sub read that’s still hot enough to rev your engine, this is the one. I’m looking forward to seeing a lot more by this author.
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Reviewer: Maggie O. |
