Penhaligon's Rock

the long version

To escape from a devastating experience in connection with her job in London, Rachel Hayward goes to stay in the little Cornish village of St Morwenna's Bay. At first, it seems to be a place where nothing much ever happens, but things are not quite what they seem. Rachel's fascination with a rocky island out in the bay, reputedly the haunt of the long-dead smuggler Penhaligon, leads to danger and the discovery of a shocking secret -- shared with a man who is also escaping his past.