Miss Catherine Marks was introduced in the second book as governess to the two youngest Hathaway sisters, Beatrix and Poppy. It took three books for Leo to work through his grief – first by drinking and carousing, and eventually by accepting all that he had lost. When we met him he had just lost his fiancée to scarlet fever and was walking a dangerous edge of depression, nearly slipping into suicide.

In the first book Leo was a shell of his formerly vivacious self. This 4th instalment is the HEA of second eldest and only brother Hathaway, Lord Leo Ramsay. The series follows a Hampshire family of siblings as they navigate their way around a recently acquired Ton title and all the societal nuisances that come with it. This is the fourth book in Lisa Kleypas’s ‘Hathaways’ series.

The danger Cat tried to outrun is about to separate them forever-unless two wary lovers can find a way to banish the shadows and give in to their desires… But to Leo, Cat is intriguing and infernally tempting, even to a man resolved never to love again. Catherine’s respectable demeanor hides a secret that would utterly destroy her.

Leo must marry and produce an heir within a year to save his family home. But when one quarrel ends in a sudden kiss, Cat is shocked at her powerful response-and even more so when Leo proposes a dangerous liaison. Cat can hardly believe that their constant arguing could mask a mutual attraction. Her charges’ older brother, Leo Hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters-a pleasant position, with one caveat.

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