Orphaned and besieged, Princess Alesandra knows that only hasty marriage to an Englishman can protect her from the turmoil in her own land. Colin, the younger brother of the Marquess of Cainewood wants to claim her forever, and he is prepared to risk his life to do so.
The Lion's Lady--
Christina Bennett had taken London society by storm. The ravishing beauty guarded the secret of her mysterious past until the night Lyon, Marquis of Lyonwood, stole a searching, sensuous kiss. An arrogant nobleman with a pirate's passions, he tasted the wild fire smoldering beneath Christina's cool charm and swore to posess her...
But the fiesty and defiant Christina would not be so easily conquered. Mistress of her heart and of her fortune, she resisted Lyon's sensuous caresses. She dared not surrender to his love...for then, she must also forsake her precious secret...and her promised destiny!
Castles is not just a love story but intertwined is a mystery of a cold blooded serial killer who at times you wonder who it is. The author is good at leaving the reader in suspense because sometimes I thought it was Colin then someone else. I would have enjoyed it so much more without the gore and it still would have been a good story. I don't usually read novels and I couldn't go on to read the next. It was the first I had read of Julie Garwood's and the last I'll read.