The Other Cathy

by Nancy Buckingham

Their first meeting up on the moors near Black Scar Rocks. Trouble from somewhere far off had been gipsy's warning, and to the young and impressionable Emma it seemed a fulfilment of the prophecy when she learnt that the tall stranger was Matthew Sutcliffe, the man convicted of killing her father fifteen years before.

Already her life was tinged with tragedy, for her beautiful cousin Cathy was dying of consumption, comforted only by her romantic infatuation for the half-Romany stableboy, Seth. When Emma's uncle welcomes Sutcliffe to their home, Bracklegarth Hall, she adopts a pose of cold hostility. But gradually her acttitude begins to change. Her persistence leads her eventually to the horriflyng solution to an old crime - and to a new live for herself.

Set in Yorkshire in the mid-19th countrentury, The Other Cathy beautifully portrays the people and landscape o the countryside which the Brontës knew so well.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1978

About the author

Nancy Jean Buckingham was born on 10 August 1924 in Bristol, England, UK. In 1949, she married John Sawyer, born on 4 October 1919 in London, England, UK. They formed one of the most popular writing-team marriages. The first books, published under her maiden name Nancy Buckingham since 1967, are classical gothic novels. In the 1970s, they started to used the pseudonyms Christina Abbey and Erica Quest. In 1980, they sold her first novels to Silhouette, and combined their names to create the pen name Nancy John. They also published one novel as Hilary London. The last novels that they published are a popular police series as Erica Quest, protagonized by the Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox. Their last novel was released in 1992.

Nancy Jean Buckingham Sawyer was the eighth elected Chairman (1973-1975) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and is now one of its vice-presidents. John passed away in 1994.