It has been a while since I read this book (bought while traveling in Australia) so I'll provide the synopsis on the back...
"In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, drowning many of the passengers and crew in the icy waters of Stolnsay Harbor. Young, strawberry-blond haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy, illiterate and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why. before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore, and so falls under the immediate suspicion of her fellow passenger, Murdo Hesketh, and his cousin and employer, Lord Hallohulme, who owns the island and has controversial plans for improving the lives of the inhabitants."
"In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, drowning many of the passengers and crew in the icy waters of Stolnsay Harbor. Young, strawberry-blond haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy, illiterate and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why. before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore, and so falls under the immediate suspicion of her fellow passenger, Murdo Hesketh, and his cousin and employer, Lord Hallohulme, who owns the island and has controversial plans for improving the lives of the inhabitants."
