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Overview

A Classic Love Story of a Fearless Lord and the Woman Who Tamed Him

Darkly handsome and rich beyond imagining, the bold English conqueror was called “the Black Lyon” for his lionlike ferocity. He had no match among enemies, or women . . . until he met Lyonene, the green-eyed beauty whose fiery spirit equaled his own.

Through a whirlwind romance and stormy marriage, she endured every peril to be by his side, until vicious lies and jealousy drove her into danger. Now only the fierce Black Lyon can save her—for he alone has the courage to destroy the ruthless plot threatening to shatter the bond of love the Lyon and his lady vowed would never be broken . . .

No suitor was man enough for feisty Lady Lyonene, until she met her match in the immensely rich and darkly handsome Earl Ranulf de Warbrooke, also known as "The Black Lyon." But after a whirlwind romance, their union grew stormy, tangled by jealousy, lies and misunderstandings. . . . Reissue.

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The forerunner to Deveraux's beloved Montgomery series, this 13th-century historical, first published in 1980 and focusing on the tumultuous romance between Ranulf de Warbrooke and Lady Lyonene Tompkins, is one of the author's earliest works. While not as polished as her later titles, it is a fiery delight and essential for most romance collections. This title has been reissued multiple times.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780380759118
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 9/28/2011
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 72,398
  • Series: Montgomery Dynasty Series
  • Product dimensions: 4.25 (w) x 6.87 (h) x 0.85 (d)

Meet the Author

Jude Deveraux
Jude Deveraux

Jude Deveraux is the author of historical and contemporary women's fiction featuring women of strong character and gorgeous, exciting men. Jude has had more than thirty books on the New York Times bestsellers list, 60 million copies in print, and has been translated into 18 languages. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading murder mysteries, working in her garden, and in boxing class she likes to show much younger males that she can throw a mean right cross.

Biography

Jude Deveraux was born in Fairdale, Kentucky, the eldest of a family of three girls and one boy. After earning a degree in art from Murray State University and studying teaching at the University of New Mexico, she taught fifth grade in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She left when her first book, The Land of Enchantment, was accepted for publication by Avon books.

Jude's first books were historical, chiefly featuring the Montgomery and Taggert families. Stories of the lives and loves of these families spanned over several centuries in the US and England. They are filled with details of the history and culture of the time periods and settings of her novels. Her more recent series of books focuses on the McTern family and its descendants. The novels are set in the fictional town of Edilean, Virginia, and go from when the family arrived in America to contemporary time.

Jude's exhaustive research on every aspect of her books has made for a rich and detailed background for each of her novels. Her stories are adventurous, funny, and at times heartwarming. Jude has had over thirty books on the New York Times Bestsellers List, over 60 million copies in print, and has been translated into 18 languages.

Jude has lived in England and Egypt as well as in several American states, and she has traveled around the world. She likes to read nonfiction and murder mysteries, work in her garden, and in boxing class, she enjoys showing much younger males that she can throw a mean right cross.

Good To Know

Deveraux began her career as a fifth-grade teacher.

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Chapter One


Lyonene could hear Lucy's heavy step on the stone stairs and snuggled deeper beneath the thick coverlet. The January winds whistled outside the old donion, threads of cold air cutting under the wooden shutters, but her bed was warm and she planned to put off leaving it as long as possible.

"Lady Lyonene." Lucy pulled the bed-curtains back. She was an old woman now and far too fat. She'd been with Lyonene since the girl's birth and was much like a mother to her. "The lady your mother bids you dress in your gold tunic with the green surcoat and mantle."

Lyonene, who had turned toward the light only reluctantly, now looked with interest at Lucy. "The green mantle and surcoat?"

"There is a guest, an important guest, and you are to wear your finest clothes for the introductions."

Lyonene threw back the bedclothes and put a small foot on the rush-covered oak floor. The shutters were closed tightly against the cold winter, and the only light came from the small fireplace and the tallow candle on the tall iron stand by the bed. The soft glow highlighted the full curves of her slim young body. Lucy helped her mistress into the thin linen shift and then the woolen tunic, the tightness of which emphasized her womanly body. The sideless surcoat hid nothing.

"Know you this guest? He is friend to my father?"

"Oh no, my lady." Lucy fastened the thin leather belt about Lyonene's slim waist. "He is an earl, a man your father has not met, and he is a young man.,,

Lyonene stopped and stared at her maid. "He is handsome? He is a handsome young earl, fair, and rides a white stallion?" Lyonene teased the old woman.

"You shall see soon enough. Now get your comb so I may remove some of the tangles from your hair."

Lyonene obeyed and then asked, "Tell me more of him. What color are his eyes? His hair?"

"Black. As black as the Devil's eyes."

Both women looked up to see Gressy and Meg entering the small chamber with armfuls of clean linen for the bed. Gressy, the older girl, spoke. "It is an earl come, and not just any of the king's earls, but the great Black Lion himself."

"And black he is, too," Meg added.

"His eyes and hair are black as Satan's. Even his horse is all black."

Lyonene looked at them in horror. She had heard stories of the Black Lion since she was but a girl-stories of strength and courage. But each story was misted with a sense of evil, that mayhaps his strength was ill-gotten. "You are sure it is the Black Lion and no other? " Her voice was quiet.

"No other man could have such a look. I vow he gave me gooseflesh just to be near him." Gressy gave her mistress an intense look.

Lucy stepped forward. "Cease your foolish prattle! You'll scare the poor girl. Now get on with your work. I must go below to the Lady Melite." She gave Lyonene's hair a final combing and settled the transparent circle of silk in place with a thin gold fillet. "Now be still and do not muss yourself." She paused at the door, pointing a warning finger at Meg and Gressy. "And no more of this gossip. If black hair made us part of the Devil, there'd be a lot of us dreading the Day of Glory." She sniffed and patted the little bit of gray hair that showed at her temple between the barbette, a piece of linen that totally concealed her neck and chin, and the cascading veil that extended to her shoulders. Lucy imagined that her own locks were still the soot-black of her youth.

When the door was closed, Lyonene sank to the stone windowseat. "Tell me of him," she whispered.

"He is a large man ... "

"Strong . . ." Meg interrupted, but then, at Gressy's quelling look, she went obediently to her side of Lyonene's bed to catch the billowing sheet.

"Aye," Gressy continued, looking back at Lyonene and feeling confident in her audience. Lyonene would be the mistress of her own castle someday, but for now there was one area where Gressy was superior, and that was, in her knowledge of men. "He's the Black Lion and named for his Devil's blackness and for having the fierceness of a lion. It is said he can unseat twenty men at a tourney and that in Wales, in the wars there, he could hack a man or his horse in half with one blow."

Lyonene felt her face drain of color, and this encouraged Gressy to elaborate on half-heard tales.

"It is said his first wife tried to kill herself to escape him."

Lyonene gasped and involuntarily crossed herself. Suicide was a mortal sin.

"And the seven men-seven devils--he has near him . . ." Meg inserted, too excited to fear Gressy.

"Aye," Gressy said, her voice conspiratorial. "He travels with seven men, great huge men, black-haired all, but none so black as the Lion on his black horse."

"He has come here and I am to meet him?" Lyonene could not keep the fear from her voice.

"Aye. Your father and mother are below now with him. No one denies the Black Lion a request, however small." She straightened. "Come, Meg, we must go to prepare a room for this Devil's knight." She left the room, the wideeyed Meg trailing behind with the dirty laundry. Gressy was smugly pleased that she had caught the undivided attention of the two girls, for she considered them both girls, although neither was more than two years younger than she.

Outside the heavy door, Meg found her voice. "Is it true, Gressy, that this man is a spawn of the Devil?"

Black Lyon, The. Copyright © by Jude Deveraux. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 10, 2011

    Why?

    This is the first Montgomery book and it reads like a first attempt at a romance novel. I used to read a lot of her novels, but I don' t remember them being filled with rape and abuse. Even if I could have gotten past page 80 (by which time the heroine had been raped twice and backhanded by her hero husband), the writting was awful! It was stilted, awkward, and had huge jumps in the "plot" that forced re-reading to try to make any sense out of it. The fact that this is considered a "romance classic" by so many women scares me and makes me question their emotional well-being- if you think rape and abuse are romantic, well that says too much about how desperate you are to justify your life experiences. And why does it have to get even one star before I can post this review?

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  • Posted December 5, 2011

    I Also Recommend:

    love Jude Deveraux

    An exceptional book- I would highly recommend it. It has very good character development. A classic who-dunnit.

    4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 5, 2011

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    good book

    I enjoyed reading this book, very good plot, keeps you entertained

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 15, 2011

    Love her!!!

    Been a fan of hers for as long as i can remember. Always happy with her books. This was a good one i couldnt put it down nothing new for me when i read her books.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 14, 2011

    Overpriced author

    Her older books should be cheaper. The newer books are so boring

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 16, 2012

    Interesting

    Good story but could have been better. All the mistrust back and forth got a little tiring.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 31, 2012

    Love Jude Deveraux

    I just love her books Very well done!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 30, 2012

    Great

    It was a very good book that had romance and action in it. I loved it!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 15, 2012

    Enjoyed

    Enjoyed this one. Misunderstandings at times seemed silly, but enoyment of charcters was more.

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  • Posted January 14, 2012

    Highly Recommend; great romance

    Hightly recommend this book. The characters come across as real and you get quickly hooked and hate to put this book down. Great romance and intrigue.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2012

    My 1st Romance

    This was my first "bodice ripper", back when i was a teenager. For such a book, it really is quite tame in comparison. I fell in love with the characters. I've read a few romances, but it is not my preferred genre. And to this day (25 years later), it is still one of my favorite books...one that i have read over and over and over.

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  • Posted January 1, 2012

    Jude strikes the stars again with this one

    Very good with lots of action. Physical and emotional.Love it!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 31, 2011

    My favorite book!!!

    I have loved this book since I read it as a teenager almost 30 years ago. I am glad that the main characters are not "perfect" as so many other authors write them. Jude's books are gritty and more real than most of the other romance novels I have read. This story is the first in the line about the lion belt and is well worth the money and the time.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 30, 2011

    Fantastic!

    Loved this book and couldn't put it down until I finished it. Great characters.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 14, 2011

    Loved this book!

    This book has a nice variety of events and does not dwell too much on the lesser events, which was good. Although some may be offended by Ranulf behavior toward Lyonene, keep reading and you should be very pleased! Very good romance!

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  • Posted February 18, 2010

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    My All time Favorite Book Ever!!!

    I love love love this book. I think I may have read this book maybe 10 times already. :) I am obessed with Medieval times and this one take the cake. This love story is amazing. The twists and turns keep you reading and in the end love prevails all.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 17, 2007

    INTOLERABLE IN PARTS

    I was very disappointed with this novel. I am an avid historical romance reader so I know my stuff. But this novel being my second Deveraux I feel qualified to say Deveraux needs to cut back on the wife abuse. One finds it hard to love a man who can't control his temper so much so that he strikes his wife like a man. I don't find this romantic in the least and believe it is indeed a romance KILLER. I'm sad to say the violence in Deveraux's novels and the stereotype her heroes have of the 'deceitful' unloyal wife has killed Deveraux's novels. This novel specifically had more pain than love or mercy. It was a sick kind of 'true love' between the main characters if you ask me. I've personally read several romances that have a strong fierce hero who DOES NOT once strike his heroine. No matter the anger he feels. I've listed some below.

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  • Posted May 25, 2012

    Highly recommend

    >> This is my favorite Jude Deveraux book. The characters are interesting and kept me entertained threw out the book. I was engrossed in the book from start to finish. Couldn't put it down...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 24, 2012

    Loved it

    I am a huge jude deverauxe fan and have read everything she has ever written! If you have never read her books i suggest you do she will become one of your favorite writers

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 16, 2012

    Great Book

    Great Book

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