“Well that’s it. We’re at war! We’re at war with the blasted Hun! I hope you’re happy now, Clara!”

It was the standard First World War tragedy. A young dad is killed at Ypres and never meets his newborn son. To history student Rosie Kirby, her ancestors’ story was text book.

But when she inherits an old box of papers after a funeral, she discovers that all is not quite what it seems.

Her great-great-grandmother, Clara Thornton – a young girl employed in the underbelly of Scarborough’s Grand Hotel at the outbreak of war – has left behind a puzzle in her diary.

Rosie’s quest to find the truth unlocks Clara’s world – a world full of underground palaces, seaside picture houses, funicular cliff railways and charabanc rides – but also a world full of tragedies far worse and far more complex than she could ever have imagined.

Bombshell is available now for download to the Kindle from Amazon.

More eBook platforms will follow this Autumn.