Isabella, has lived in fear and on the run but even though his own people fear him, Isabella doesn’t fear him as they do, she sees him as the man that he is not the beast that he can become, and hopes that her love for him will be strong enough… Desperate to make sure to see him alive once more, she goes to the one man that is powerful enough to rescue him. Isabella, has already lost her parents and the only family that she has left is her brother. Hoping that she will be enough to save his soul…. Ever since his father turned on his mother in a moment of rage and where the beast overcame him, destroying his mother and almost his son as well…Nicolae is determined that he finds a way to break the curse, especially since Isabella is the first woman who is more loving and gentle and doesn’t deserve to be torn to pieces by her husband. Nicolai, has been born into a family that was cursed, and has lived with the beast of the lion within him all of his life. Although Nicolae is lethal, Isabella, even though she fears him at times, starts to see the good parts of him, and slowly starts to fall in love with him, and put all her trust in him despite the danger that he poses to her….in her mind Love is powerful enough to conquer any curse that could destroy them…. Isabella knowing that she doesn’t have much choice, other than letting her brother die, she agrees and with that agreement a desire is awakened in them both. After meeting the rumored beast, Don Nicolaie DeMarco, she makes a pact with him, his help in rescuing her brother in exchange to marriage with Nicolae. Full of courage and strength she heads up to his valley, rumored to be ridden with lions, she knows she could very well perish, but desperation and fear for her brother keeps her going forward until she makes it to his home…his lair. Isabella is in desperate need to save her brother who has been captured and tortured, and goes to the only Don she knows that is powerful enough to help her. And when the don commanded her to become his bride, she went willingly into his muscled arms, praying she’d save his tortured soul. Then Isabella met a man whose growl was velvet, purring heat, whose eyes held dark, all-consuming desire. She’d even brave the haunted, accursed lair of the lion-the menacing palace of legendary, lethal Don Nicolai DeMarco.The Bargain. Impoverished aristocrat Isabella Vernaducci would defy death itself to rescue her imprisoned brother.

It was whispered he was not wholly human-as untamed as his tawny mane and slashing amber eyes.The Beauty. and that he was doomed to destroy the woman he took as wife. Rumor said the powerful Nicolai DeMarco could command the heavens, that the beasts below did his bidding. Genres: Fantasy Romance, Historical Romance, Medieval Era, Paranormal Romance, Shape Shifting

Published by Leisure Books on January 1st 1970

Lair of the lion by christine feehan