Kate Allan writes contemporary and historical romantic fiction and lives in the English countryside close to the Chiltern Hills with her family and West Highland White Terrier. Her debut novel, Fateful Deception, was shortlisted for the RNA New Writers Award. Kate also writes in partnership with author <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2674149A/Michelle_Styles">Michelle Styles</a> under the name <a href="https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL10141935A/Jennifer_Lindsay">Jennifer Lindsay</a>. She is member of the Romantic Novelists Association, the Historical Novels Society (where she is Features Editor of Solander magazine), the Society of Authors, and her St Albans writing group, Verulam Writers' Circle.