Wow! Married By Morning by Lisa Kleypas was a game changer for my interest in the Hathaway series. Loved it! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

This is the 4th book of the Hathaway series (which follows the Wallflowers series). Our hero, Leo, is the supposed cursed Lord Ramsey, inheriting after a long line of disasters. Our heroine, Cat, is the family’s hired companion for the youngest sisters. She has a mysterious past and is trying to hide. While this can be read as a stand-alone, you will get a much better feel for Leo and his past if you read the entire series. I can’t remember what book Cat comes in, it might have been from the beginning but I know I remember her in the second and third.

I didn’t know how I’d like Leo. Personally I thought he quite an ass and annoying while he was possessed in the first book 😂 I didn’t get a strong feeling for Cat in the prior books. But it did set up that enemies to lovers feel. These two fight like cats and dogs from the beginning and I found their interactions quite funny and perfect for that trope.

This book is all about the wonder of someone becoming something to you that you don’t expect. They hate each other, right? Or has something been building underneath that tension of anger? I love this trope when done right and this fit it for me.

I really loved both characters in this book but Leo stole the show (ahem, story) for me. He was just such a wonderful surprise with his humor and his naughtiness. I loved it. This book doesn’t carry the belly laugh passages of Tessa Dare but I found quite a few hilarious and witty remarks that I adored.

The scenes where Leo exchanges a kiss and a question challenge with Cat I found so adorable and funny.

And if you read the story in order and are vested in the characters it’s nice to continue to see their relationships and families grow.