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.