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Lycan, King of Raynar, was on constant alert for war. For as long as he could remember, his kingdom had been under threat of attack by either the Centuri Kingdom or the Dognelle Kingdom, and today it had been both. They’d been attacked by the Dognelle, a kingdom of women warriors, as they were on their way home from a battle against the Centuri. Lycan should have been happy about the dual victories, but he was tired of the constant fighting. When he saw that one of the Dognelle warriors was still alive, he ordered her to be held as his prisoner. He thought of it as one less life to be taken in a useless war, but little did he realize his gesture would unleash a war within himself.
The dirty, smelly warrior Lycan declared his captive is Starr, the Queen of Dognelle herself. Raised to believe that women were dominate, with rights and strengths that men in other countries laughed at, Starr stubbornly refuses to succumb to being Lycan’s captive. With every defiant move Starr makes, Lycan counters with an equally seductive one.
Lycan wants peace throughout his land and others. The more he listens to Starr, the more he begins to realize that his forefather’s practice of overprotecting their women, is weakening his kingdom. No matter how much she resists, Starr cannot deny the passion Lycan stirs in her. When their shaky trust is broken, can their love survive another war, both on and off the battlefield?
Lycan is every woman’s fantasy – breathtakingly handsome, beyond gifted in the sensual arts, and a King to boot. Throw in a fantasy version of a woman’s libber and there’s bound to be tension. Jaci Burton turns that tension into sexual heat and makes it easy for any woman to want to surrender. Ms. Burton seems to have a talent for taking contemporary qualities and infusing them into wonderful fantasies, that I, for one, enjoy reading every time. This reviewers’ waving a white flag of surrender, now where’s my Lycan?
Reviewed by Tina Burns
for The Road to Romance
September 7, 2004
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