A Gentleman Til Midnight by Alison DeLaine

This was a good book, though at times I didn’t care for how upity and stand offish Katherine was. Her tendency to leap without thinking at the worst possible times time and time again did become grating. Oh she had good reason to be scared and to want to run away and hide, but with people depending on her she should have been smarter and thought things through before leaping. But while that did detract me from the character of Katherine I did like the character of James. James was a man who was smart enough to read Katherine and then do his best to get her to do what he wanted, which really was the best thing for her. But being as stubborn as Katherine could be she’d never agree to anything James wanted easily. Both James and Katherine are used to being the one in control, the Captain of their own ships. So there was a lot of work between them to trust one another to give up some control of their individual lives in order to really fall in love and get married. And it took a lot for Katherine to even accept James’ help in trying to keep the land and title that were rightfully hers which a greedy cousin wanted.  I enjoyed this book since there were lots of twists and turns in what was going on so you didn’t get bored. I found it amusing to see how James was dealing with Katherine and trying to help her but she was thwarting him at almost every turn.