Karran Kinrade

Karran Kinrade ... She was made in the image of her father, the untamed gypsy who had trapped her will-o'-the-wisp mother into a wild and desolate love affair

But the white-faced child with the cloud of dark hair had an elusive quality of her own a quality that captivated John Howard, made him offer her a home at Ravensdowne, made him feel she was the child he had never had.

And so she began a new life in the house by the sea, a life of uneasy luxury, of tensions that were to spread outwards to encompass the people of the island.