Candy Jar Books has released a free Lucy Wilson Mysteries short story to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Baz Greenland has written a fun, action-packed, timey-wimey story featuring the young Defender of Earth, Lucy Wilson, who is actually the granddaughter of Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. And as it happens, Thursday 2nd June 2022, the date of Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, also happens to be Lucy’s 17th birthday!

The Platinum Sceptre is a 27-page tale which is accessible to readers new and old, so it’s a perfect freebie for fans of all ages to enjoy.

All you have to do is click this sentence to open The Platinum Sceptre!

Want to know more first? Here’s the brief blurb:

Lucy finds herself in 1977 during the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, but how will she save the Queen without breaking time?

Perhaps UNIT can help!

The downloadable PDF also includes a look at other titles from Candy Jar, including UNIT: Operation Wildcat and Other Stories, Lethbridge-Stewart: A Most Haunted Man, and Timeslides, Colin Howard’s Doctor Who book, full of his artwork and edited by, well, me! It’s a hugely fun project and I’m looking forward to everyone seeing what’s inside.

Lucy Wilson, meanwhile, made her debut in Avatars of the Intelligence and has appeared in a number of novels and short stories including The Brigadier & the Bledoe Cadets, The Children of January, and Back in London.

So what are you waiting for? Click here to download now!