Entrance to the Harbour

Jo had come to the tiny Cornish fishing village of St. Mendoc to find peace—but instead she found Dan Penderick. Circumstances threw her constantly into his company, and she soon found herself increasingly drawn to him, caught up in a whirlwind of emotion, without power or will to free herself. But Dan stood calmly in the eye of the storm, remaining aloof and as indifferent to her as he seemed to be to anything except his boat. For Dan was a man of the sea, whose love for his boat would always come before his love for any woman—and what reason did Jo have for supposing he loved her anyway?