THE LAST WARRIOR
ISBN: 978-0-425-22100-6
Berkeley Sensation Historical Romance
Karen Kay
Suzette
Joselyn first meets Black Lion when he inadvertently
knocks her into the mud at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in London.
At the time she is a revered star of the opera engaged to an earl
and she scolds Black Lion for his lack of chivalry. When he jests
that perhaps he would now be forced to marry her due to their
protracted, unchaperoned intercourse, she wonders why the thought
doesn't shock her more.
The
next time she encounters Black Lion it is just a few months later,
again at the Wild West show now in Colorado where she seeks her
grandmother, an entertainer with the show. Suzette is disgraced,
pregnant and unmarried, discarded by the earl like a used hankie.
Confiding her situation to Black Lion, he again makes his offer-and
this time she accepts it, with conditions, of course.
Black
Lion is on a quest, one that he knows through the great spirits
involves the woman he has dubbed Little Blue Eyes. It is precisely
her knowledge of songs and her beautiful voice which could be the
instrument that frees his people from the half-life in which the
Thunder god has entrapped them as retribution for crimes against the
god's children. But the quest is dangerous, made more so by the love
growing in his heart for the wife he has taken in a marriage of
convenience. But will she ever come to reciprocate his feelings or
understand his ways or will she leave for England once the child
bearing his name is born? And should he have to choose between his
wife and his people, what would be his choice?
Karen
Kay takes the reader on a wonderful adventure, filled with mysticism
and mystery. The back drop of the Wild West show (a favorite subject
of mine) is inventive and she ably creates the atmosphere and the
times. She fills her book with rich characters, an intriguing plot
and a blossoming romance to provide the reader with a satisfying
conclusion to her Lost Clan series. |
