Home Fires Burn (novel)

 was the first novel in the seventh series of Lethbridge-Stewart, released under the banner of Bloodlines, by Candy Jar Books in 2019.

Publisher's summary
1943. Britain’s Home Front is feeling the pain of war.

The Fourth Operational Corps has other things to worry about. A downed plane in the High Peak leads Professor Travers to a village full of buried secrets and a family that are far more than they seem.

Her first assignment sees new recruit Eileen Le Croissette infiltrating a Sheffield Steelworks. Buried within is a weapon that could change the course of the war, but what does the secretive Mr Huxtable have to do with it?

Avoiding his domineering father, Matthew Lethbridge-Stewart is also on the case. But he wasn’t banking on meeting a group of homicidal little robots…

The pieces are being set for another conflict, one that started a long way away, to erupt in the middle of wartime Britain.

Plot
to be added

Characters

 * Eileen Younghusband
 * Edward Travers
 * Matthew Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
 * The Accord

Continuity

 * The London Event is a fracture point in time. (TV: The Web of Fear)
 * The Brigadier refers to his last encounter with the Accord when they enfolded the timeline. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time)
 * The race that protected time have been wiped out after a war, and only one survivor remains. (TV: The Day of the Doctor, The End of the World)
 * Alistair is plucked out of time in 2005, shortly after his granddaughter, Lucy Wilson, is born. (PROSE: Lucy Wilson)
 * The Accord reveals it is also known as the Guardian of the Quantum Realm, suggesting that the Accord as a species are the Guardians. This is the second time it has encountered Lethbridge-Stewart (PROSE: The Enfolded Time), and will encounter him a third time. (PROSE: Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets)