When 25 year old Summer meets Clayton Solomon, she can't believe such a handsome, rich man 50 years old wants her.
Then she learns his secret fetish. A furry, he enjoys dressing up to make love in a lion costume.
Summer resists. The romance she craves invites enough criticism because of her younger age.
Clayton's passion overwhelms her hesitation. She can't control her love for Clayton.
Summer Watson seems to Have It All.
25-years-old, beautiful, a rising local TV reporter, she attends a birthday party around a backyard swimming pool for one of the wealthiest self-made CEOs in St. Louis -- as his son's date.
She doesn't intend to fall in love with his 50-year-old father.
Clayton Solomon doesn't intend to steal the woman his son loves so madly.
Summer still nurses the emotional scars from her only serious previous relationship. Clayton counts three ex-wives.
Summer's mother never learns to say no to booze, noninjectable drugs, or men. Clayton fathers his first daughter years before Summer's birth.
Summer demands fidelity. Clayton can't stop himself from cheating -- according to all 3 ex-wives. And his own children.
Summer's family thinks Clayton too old for her. Clayton's family thinks Summer too young for him -- except his son, who simply seethes with jealous.
Summer's friends call Clayton a pervert. His friends believe Summer a golddigger.
And Clayton Solomon has a secret. A furry, he enjoys sex fantasies as a lion.
Can they make their love work? Despite the fear of having their furry sexual practices 'outed?' Despite opposition from their family and friends?
Can Summer even keep the peace long enough for everyone to celebrate Father's Day together, so Clayton can spend it with his children and grandchildren?
If you want to root for two lovers determined to make a life together despite their problems, give it a try.
Lion Heart is the first novel is a series of four that tell Summer's entire contemporary romance story. The second is A Knot Tied. The third: Cords Cut. The last, Dawn Blossom.
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Genre: FICTION / Romance / ContemporaryClayton squeezed Summer's arm and whispered in a fierce tone of voice. "We'll talk later."
"Does she want to carve me with a plastic spoon or just sit on me?"
"We'll talk later, I said."
So she ruined everything. One old friend of Clayton's with a petty bitch of wife, and now he was going to break up with her. Almost as soon as they got together.
Now Ed Dalton wouldn't open a jewelry store at Wildwood Mall. He sure wouldn't advertise on KPLU. And all because she couldn't keep her big mouth shut.
She filled her plate with spinach salad, artichoke hearts, asparagus with Hollandaise butter sauce, roast beef au jus, but the food went to waste in her mouth.
Clayton acted as though nothing had happened. He kept smiling, greeting, and talking. Summer did her best to keep her happy face on, smiling and helping him.
Late that night, in Clayton's dark bedroom, some sad sounding Chinese music playing at a soft volume, Summer said, "I'm sorry I ruined things for you. And the other women, they just looked at me like they knew everything, and felt sorry for me. Now I know why the Chinese think the Death of a Thousand Cuts is the worst way to die."
He put his arms around her. "You didn't ruin anything."
"But, she was so mean."
"Hush, it's all right. I was proud of you. Every guy there envies me. Every one of them wishes they were with you right now."
"But you want him to open that new store . . ."
"She crossed the line, and Ed knows it."
"But --"
"Look, he isn't a successful jeweler because he lets her run the business. She doesn't even have good taste. If he listened to her, he'd be bankrupt, or still on Chippewa, shooting crackheads trying to rob him."
