Married by Morning

June 15, 2010

Having lost a fiancee to scarlet fever, Leo Hathaway, Viscount Ramsay, has no intention of ever being Married by Morning--until he learns he must do so and produce an heir within the next year or lose the estate he and his siblings have worked so hard to restore. However resigned, he refuses to marry for love, instead setting his sights on his sister's companion, the reserved, prickly, and opinionated but strangely fascinating Catherine Marks. But Catherine's outward calm hides a dangerous, sordid past, one that threatens to destroy her unless Leo can get to her in time. VERDICT A hero afraid to risk his heart again and a heroine who thinks she's unworthy find unexpected love in this exquisitely sensual, cleverly plotted romance that features some particularly slimy villains.

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Starred review from May 1, 2010
Everyone in the Hathaway family loves Catherine Marks. Well, everyone except for the head of the family, Leo, Lord Ramsay. Leo thinks Catherine is far too outspoken, opinionated, and obstinate for a companion, and Catherine has an equally high opinion of her employer. For the sake of his sisters, however, Leo manages to strike an uneasy truce. But when he suddenly discovers he has one year to find a wife and produce an heir or lose the familys beloved home, the first (and only) woman he even considers marrying is the one who drives him crazy. The only problem is that Catherine is a lady with secrets, and one of those secrets is about to destroy her carefully cultivated new life unless Leo can convince her to trust him to help set things right. A sharp-witted and sharp-tongued heroine closely guards the secret of her past from an equally determined hero with a few secrets of his own in the latest sinfully sensual, superbly written addition to Kleypas wickedly funny Hathaway series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2010, American Library Association.)