Blackmoore

Author: Julianne Donaldson
Published: 2013
Genre: Historical Fiction
Rating: 3

Summary
Kate Worthington knows her heart, and she knows she will never marry. Her plan is to travel to India instead—if only to find peace for her restless spirit and to escape the family she abhors. But Kate’s meddlesome mother has other plans. She makes a bargain with Kate: India, yes, but only after Kate has secured—and rejected—three marriage proposals.

Kate journeys to the stately manor of Blackmoore determined to fulfill her end of the bargain, and she enlists the help of her dearest childhood friend, Henry Delafield. But when it comes to matters of love, bargains are meaningless and plans are changeable. There on the wild lands of Blackmoore, Kate must face the truth that has kept her heart captive. Will the proposal she is determined to reject actually be the one thing that will set her heart free?
Review
Blackmoore is a proper (clean) romance...but it is filled with sexual tension. Many of the characters mimic those in Austen novels. (The author even borrows one name from Austen.) The plot line is predictable and the ending expected. And yet I was still absorbed in the story and sped through it.

Notes
I enjoyed this more than the author's previous work, Edenbrooke. But this work still needed one more good edit before being published.