Mark Penrose and Jennifer Tremain are engaged to be married. They live in Trepol, a small Cornish harbour where the people work on boats or fish in the sea. Life is peaceful and quiet. But when a London mining company arrivest to look for metal under the sea, everyone's life is greatly troubled. And the handsome London man -derek- troubles Mark and Jennifer's life more than mots people's
Tasca is a small, beautiful island. The people on the island - people like Marianne's parents - are farmers and fishermen. They are poor. So why - suddenly - do men from the mainland want to buy their house and land? David works for a big oil company on the mainland. He and Marianne want to find the answer to this question. But it leads them to the dangerous man M, and he is a killer.
Longman Originals is a series of graded readers. All the stories are specially written for EFL students and follow internationally established language guidelines.