The Dark Stranger — Sara Seale

"I see a dark stranger entering your life violently," the gipsy fortune-teller had told Tina -- but it seemed unlikely that her words would ever come true, for Tina was kept decidedly in the background by her stepmother, Belle, to whom the combination of straitened circumstances and an unwanted step-daughter did not appeal.

When, however, Belle's rich cousin Craig Pentreath offered them a share in his Cornish home, it looked as if the prediction might after all be right. But the gipsy had not said that the coming of the dark stranger would bring Tina any happiness....

Hero: Craig Pentreath
Heroine: Clementina "Tina" Linden