The Maiden and the Lion by Lizzie Lynn Lee: Sizzling Sex with Werelions

Book two in the Lions of Manhattan Series

Some lions in town aren’t locked in the zoo...

Twenty-one year old receptionist Beatrice Summer has the hots for her new boss, Alexandre Larousse. But Alex seems never to notice her. Bea understands. He’s too handsome, too rich, and a tad too mature for someone like her. But it doesn’t stop Bea from wanting him in secret.

One night, Bea witnesses a man being shot from a bridge. She swims after him and drags him to safety. She is shocked to find the victim is nothing but the boss she’s enamoured with. What makes it even more shocking, the unconscious Alex turns into a lion before her eyes.

Bea doesn’t think shape-shifters are real. Seriously. Werelions? They are nothing but a myth, right? Feeling more curious than a fickle cat, Bea is hell bent on spying Alex—especially when Alex tells her not to. Then, Bea discovers the reason why Mr Hot Boss pretends he never interested in getting into her panties. Bea had never thought playing detective can be so thrilling, sexy…and deadly.

Lions of Manhattan. Maiden & the Lion
Lizzie Lynn Lee

Contemporary.  Paranormal.  Act/Adv.  Sus/Myst
M/F
87 pages

Loved the cover who could not want to read about all that yumminess

Alex is being blackmailed to keep his secret about being a lion shifter.  When the blackmailer threatens Bea he has gone too far.  Alex has had the hots for Bea since he first saw her but has kept his distance because he felt that he was too old for her.

Bea felt the same attraction when she briefly saw Alex when she was going to apply for a job but she knew he was way out of her league so she kept her infatuation to herself.

Bea hears shots and someone thrown off a bridge into the river and she tries to help and discovers that it is her boss, Alex.  She pulls him to the shore and manages to save him.  But in her attempt to get him help discovers more than expected.

Alex can no longer hold on to his feelings about Bea and let's his feelings be known.  Oh how lives change for both.  He still has the blackmailer to deal with and does so efficiently.

5 stars