Mark of Tregarron — Lucy Gillen

Toni Ashley was having a thoroughly enjoyable summer, studying art in Cornwall, under the tuition of Jake Tregarron. She found her fellow students easy to get on with -especially Gavin Brent, and Jake's cousin Peter, but Jake himself was something of an enigma.
A wonderful teacher, he was nevertheless a fascinating but disturbing man. He bore the characteristic birthmark of his disreputable ancestor Tobyn Tregarron -but did that necessarily mean that he was a disreputable character himself? And in any case, with the glamorous Mrs. Fran Casey firmly in possession, why should Toni concern herself with him at all?