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Briar Boleyn
Tempting the Beast (Breeds Book 1)
by Lora Leigh
About this book
He’s a genetic experiment. The merging of human and lion DNA his creators call a Breed. And they have no idea just what kind of the creature they brought into being.
Callan Lyons wanted only to be left in peace to protect the small group of Breeds he rescued from a New Mexico lab, but those that created them refuse to stop their continued attempts to re-capture them. And the owner of a small, reputable paper, once a friend of his birth mother’s, now has proof of his existence. Proof that has caught his daughter, Merinus Tyler’s’s fascination and ensured her determination to find him. But once they touch, they’ll become far more than either ever imagined possible.
Man created them, but nature has made them her own. Beginning with Callan, she’ll show the world the folly of playing with the very building blocks of all she protects. And Merinus will learn the folly of tempting the beast…
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
- B075MXVYD7
Reader Reviews
September 28, 2004
Merinus Tyler is a talented journalist, a real professional who always gets her story. That is, she gets the story when her overprotective father and six feisty, interfering brothers aren't hampering her, insisting she stay out of trouble and away from dangerous situations. But dangerous situations make excellent copy. Merinus works for the National Forum, where her oldest brother Caleb is editor-in-chief, and she is obsessed with a lead on a potential story. She had seen a photograph of a man,...
August 28, 2020
I was addicted to the story from the first chapter. The characters are easy to like and their perspectives were clear. The action is constant and the story keeps growing, bringing in new people and deftly utilizing both flashbacks and foreshadowing to make a fuller experience but also to set up future books. I loved Callum and Marinus relationship and all the spiciness that came with it. This is my first time reading this author, but I'm looking forward to reading more of the books in this...
September 5, 2008
Tempting The Beast starts out with Merinus Tyler arguing with her testosterone loaded male family members that she is capable of tracking down Callan Lyons, a genetically modified male who could become the investigative story of the century. She argues that as a woman she can get Callan to talk to her. Understandably, her brothers and father are not excited by her logic. However, Merinus has been half in lust with Callan since the moment she saw his photo and can't deny this inexplicable pull...
October 3, 2023
This is a story about a lion shifter and his pride and the lion shifter’s mate. About 1/4 of the way it I almost DNF but I had a stern talk with me about the very real possibility that not every book I read will be good. I DNF books if they aren’t holding up their end of the bargain - the bargain being a good book for me to use my limited resource aka time to read. So I kept reading and then bam! I was hooked and the last half was addicting. And steamy! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥/5 ) 2 people found this...
February 14, 2018
Great book by Lora Leigh in this series. I enjoyed it very much. Some of her stories have focussed and contained more sexual scenes, repeated over and over again, at the expenses of impressive well-thought out plots and deeper character development. In this book, she has found a more balanced approach to very erotic and wondrous sections devoted to sex between two people who begin by not knowing each other as people at all. At the best of times, this would be difficult, but each faces enormous...
