While at Blackmoore, Kate must discover the secrets in her heart, the worth of her dreams, and the strength to open her own cage and soar. If not, she must stay and do whatever her mother desires-including marrying a man she does not love. If Kate can manage to receive and reject three proposals during her visit, she can finally leave her broken home and make her own choices. But her dreams of Blackmoore will be destroyed unless she strikes a devil’s bargain with her manipulative mother. It is the second home of her best friends since childhood, Henry and Sylvia Delafield, who have visited it every summer, leaving her behind to imagine a place as wild as it is beautiful. Now at seventeen, Kate has finally been invited to Blackmoore, the symbol of her freedom and the manor house she has always longed to see. From happy child to guarded young woman, she turned her back on ever marrying, feeling as if she was a bird trapped in a cage-a cage filled with her mother’s indiscretions and schemes, and the fear that in letting herself feel and love, she would become just like all Worthington women-cold and heartless, being used and using others in turn.

Now in 2013, she has written her second Regency novel, Blackmoore, which is set on the moors and windswept cliffs of England, in the halls of an old manor, filled with binding secrets, forgotten memories, and hidden love.Īt fifteen, Kitty Worthington decided to change her name and identity to Kate Worthington. In 2012 Julianne Donaldson published her debut novel, the highly successful Regency romance Edenbrooke.

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