Perhaps Tamar was too young when she fell in love with Ross Falcon, masterof Falcon's Head, in her Irish village home.At any rate, it all ended in disaster, with Tamar's heart broken, her lifein ruins- and Ross married to someone else. In despair, a suddenly grown-upTamar ran away to London, built a new life for herself and told herself shewas happy again.Now she was back in Falcon's Wherry; Ross had never left, and it did nottake Tamar long to realize that her feelings for him were as deep as ever.But all he felt for her was hatred, Whet was the point of staying, when itwas clear that too much had happened for either to turn back the clock?