DARK TIDE OF TALLAND The Black Monk. An awesome, mysterious figure. A traitor and a murderer in the eyes of the law. A man whom the soldiery credited with supernatural powers. A man to be feared by all who supported King James the Second. To the people of Looe and Polperro he was a hero and a protector, a leader the Free Traders would follow willingly, even to death. Faith Ransome, a stranger to the wild Cornish coast and its ancient traditions, put her life in jeopardy when, after witnessing a contraband run, she betrayed him and his friends to the ruthless Major Fairley. In the tragic and frightening events which followed she found herself caught up in the web of intrigue that surrounded the Black Monk and his bitter enemy, forced to choose sides in a plot which threatened to plunge all England into civil war.