2022/108: Billie's Kiss — Elizabeth Knox

2022/108: Billie's Kiss — Elizabeth Knox

... He won't ask 'why am I alive? why has God preserved me?' because he regards his life as a temporary difficulty. He’s alive because he wants to know who took you from him. But he won’t ask “Who meant to kill me?” in case the question makes him jealous of his life and desirous of living. [p. 148]

Billie Paxton has survived a rough sea voyage aboard the Gustav Edda, tending her heavily pregnant sister Edith: Edith's husband Henry is due to take up a post with Lord Hallowhulme on the remote Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling. As the ship nears the dock, Billie leaps ashore -- and behind her the ship explodes, with several lives lost and many injured.( Read more... )