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This began as a beautiful story of strength, trust, love, betrayal and understanding between 2 women who are similar but of different cultures and the results of their promise to each other. The promise is kept and the pledge fulfilled.
In the colonies the natives raise a child who is not theirs by birth to fulfill the pledge that was made from one mother to the other. She becomes a loving and strong warrior by those who adopted her and raised her as their own while also preparing her to take her place with the people of her birth mother.
Christina returns to England under a cloud of mystery with her Aunt as her guardian, knowing well what treachery resides in her Aunt. Christina is a great success in the Tom and is accepted. She meets her future husband a well known rake and recently retired privately wealthy and jaded government agent, Lyonwood.
The pair meet and are instantly attracted to each other. Each is trying to keep their past from the delicate sensibilities of the other. A variety of things happen and sub plots and other surrounding characters have their own issues to deal with well as Lyon and Christina.
Lyon and Christina grow in their love for each other and their strength as individuals. They flaunt to some extent the societal norms. They marry and thwart the devious plans of her guardian despite her efforts them to gain her own ends. With the help of her husband and other government agents she fulfills the requests her mother had made when she was just a babe.
It's a heart warming story about an event that could have occurred in the past. Funny and loving. Thoroughly enjoyable.


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The Lion Lady Julie Garwood 9780671737832 Books Reviews

Although this is the first book of 4 in the CROWN SPIES series, it was the last one I read. I found book 3 (THE GIFT) at a local benefit fundraiser along with several other of Ms Garwood's books and bought it. It was only after I purchased GUARDIAN ANGEL some months later from that I recognized some of the characters-Jade and Pagan-and realized it was a continuation, then I discovered it was one of at least 4 books, so I purchased the remaining two- CASTLES & THE LION"S LADY. If I may use Christina's words, the series is about 4 Warriors, semi-retired from the War Office in post Napoleonic England. I rather like that the principle characters are the heros rather than the heroines. And I really like that they are very non-traditional in their upbringing although all are socially "worthy" of thier Dukes and Marquesses. What I liked most about this series is the two primary focuses- Christina's Destiny belief and Male Bonding shown at its best. Working for the Government during the war, brought our heroes into the lives of others who deceived, were traitors who did bad things. Trust became a serious issue, especially in The Guardian Angel. I come from a long line of male-bonders my dad who I adored, was a BPOElk, we had Masons, IOOF, Eagles and Grangers in our family history, and our Grandmothers married men of similiar character. Ms Garwood has that sense of comraderie down cold. This book sets up the means of solving each story's crises as Lyon is the "go-between" for the other warriors as they use the resources of Richards and the War Department to solve their own personal drama and to understand the complex personalities of their "mates" that destiny has picked for them. In book one is introduced Lyon's best friend and cohort, the Earl of Rhone, Lyon's sister Diana and Richards, the director of War Department as they operate to understand and protect Christina from her Eastern European, deposed Tyrant King father. The one difficulty for me, was the way bits and pieces of the puzzle are given. It took me too long to get seriously involved in the plotline, and I admit that if I hadn't already read the other three books first, I might have had a more difficult time of it. BUT, this book is really necessary to appreciate the subtleties of Ms Garwood's gift for writing in the later books - so it it seems difficult muddle through the work and after you read the other books, go back and re-read this one and you will really enjoy it the second time around.
I picked this up on sale a few months ago when I saw it recommended by Smart Bitches Trashy Books. I'd only ever read one other Garwood romance (Saving Grace, a Scottish medieval). When I opened this on my kindle this weekend and read the prologue (all about a Native American shaman's cryptic dream about a white mountain lion), my first thought was, "Oh, what have I gotten myself into?" I avoid that subcategory of historical romance that prominently feature Native Americans, because I find them... well, racist, honestly. There's no sense in beating around the bush.

However, A Lion's Lady was a pleasant surprise. Although this, like Saving Grace, is very much a wallpaper historical, Garwood at least did enough basic research into the culture and rituals of the Dakota Sioux to avoid being patently offensive. The heroine, Christina, was raised by the Dakota and very much loves her adoptive family, and so her attitude toward them and their customs is positive and respectful rather than sneeringly superior.

The premise of this story is really quite ridiculous, but that's actually a good thing if one is willing to suspend disbelief and go along for the ride. Christina's mother, Jessica, married the rulerof an obscure European nation (so obscure Garwood doesn't even bother to name it). Upon discovering that her prince was actually a cruel dictator and a cheating philanderer, she stole the crown jewels (intending to return the riches to the mistreated people of this unnamed country). Presumably unable to find a bank that could handle the jewels-for-cash transaction, Jessica buried the gems in her father's garden instead, then fled to America to get as far away from her husband before giving birth to their child. She eventually joined a wagon train heading west, but fled into the woods with baby Christina when the Dastardly Hubby murdered her traveling companions. There, she came upon a Sioux woman being raped by a Crow warrior, and she kills the Crow and she and Merry (the Sioux) (and their children, as Merry is also accompanied by her six-year-old son) winter together in an abandoned cabin in the woods until Jessica is either mauled to death by a bear or by her crazed ex (the story leaves some ambiguity on that point). Merry brings both children back to her people and raises Christina as her own child.

Fast-forward sixteen years Christina has learned English (and French!) and gone to England with her evil aunt to fulfill some vague promise to her long-dead mother. She's armed with her mother's journal, so she knows Daddy is a Bad Guy, and we quickly learn that Christina has been left a fortune by her grandfather which will go to Daddy-Baddy unless Christina marries by her 19th birthday. Enter Lyon, who is a retired hitman for the Crown. He's the perfect protector for Christina, since he kills people for a living (but only if they deserve it!). They exchange humorous banter (made all the more entertaining by the fact that Christina has learned English but has no sense of idioms, so she takes everything literally in an Amelia Bedelia-esque way), noisy arguments that culminate with Christina cutting her hair in a mourning ritual, have lots of fairly vanilla sex, and then there's a big confrontation with Daddy-Baddy involving, of course, the stolen jewels.

Don't overthink it. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
This began as a beautiful story of strength, trust, love, betrayal and understanding between 2 women who are similar but of different cultures and the results of their promise to each other. The promise is kept and the pledge fulfilled.
In the colonies the natives raise a child who is not theirs by birth to fulfill the pledge that was made from one mother to the other. She becomes a loving and strong warrior by those who adopted her and raised her as their own while also preparing her to take her place with the people of her birth mother.
Christina returns to England under a cloud of mystery with her Aunt as her guardian, knowing well what treachery resides in her Aunt. Christina is a great success in the Tom and is accepted. She meets her future husband a well known rake and recently retired privately wealthy and jaded government agent, Lyonwood.
The pair meet and are instantly attracted to each other. Each is trying to keep their past from the delicate sensibilities of the other. A variety of things happen and sub plots and other surrounding characters have their own issues to deal with well as Lyon and Christina.
Lyon and Christina grow in their love for each other and their strength as individuals. They flaunt to some extent the societal norms. They marry and thwart the devious plans of her guardian despite her efforts them to gain her own ends. With the help of her husband and other government agents she fulfills the requests her mother had made when she was just a babe.
It's a heart warming story about an event that could have occurred in the past. Funny and loving. Thoroughly enjoyable.