One spring morning in 1951 Miss Rose Bud, a thirty-year-old spinster, learns she has inherited a rather large sum of money, from a father she has never meet or known. As she has never had a holiday she decides to take one.

On the train to the sunny seaside town of Whiteshore Rose meets Peter Winter, a pleasant young man, also travelling to Whiteshore. At the plush Majestic Hotel where Rose is staying, there is Mr Bannister. Both gentlemen are handsome in their own way. Finally, there is the bookshop owner, Daniel Bush, who is not at all handsome.

Her feelings are all over the place, and even more so when she becomes embroiled in a plot to trap a thief.

Is Rose’s life about to change? If so, will it be for the better or the worse?

A warm and entertaining novella about stepping out and facing unknown perils.