First published in the United Kingdom in 2003 by Hodder and Stoughton This edition published in 2014 by Endeavour Press Ltd. Table of Contents Prologue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Extract from Katy’s Men by Irene Carr Prologue SUNDAY, 20 JANUARY 1907, NORTH SEA A bad black winter morning. Liza Thornton clung to the leather and steel solidity of the chair as the ship’s soaring and plunging tried to tear her loose. She was stronger than she looked, a slender, dark-eyed, dark-haired slip of a girl, soon to be twenty-one years old. The chair was of polished wood and leather and bolted to the deck, one of a dozen set around the table in the day-cabin set aside for the dozen passengers usually carried. The windows looked out on to a wild sea and Liza could smell the salt tang of it along with the leather. She had not bargained for this weather and feared for her life, but also for her future if she survived this crossing.
