<P>For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters -- a pleasant position, with one caveat: the sisters' older brother, Leo Hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. But when one of their frequent quarrels ends in a sudden kiss, Cat is shocked at her powerful response -- and even more so when Leo proposes a dangerous liaison.</P><P>Leo must marry and produce an heir within a year to save his family home. But Cat is a lady with secrets, and one of them is about to ruin her carefully cultivated new life. To Leo, a man resolved never to love again, Cat is intriguing and infernally tempting. Will she be able to trust him to banish the shadows of her past?</P>