Meet Ebony Diamond: trapeze artist, tiger-tamer, suffragette. Where there is trouble, she is never far away. But now she’s the one in trouble, and she’s up to her neck in it. Enter Frankie George: tomboy, club reporter, chippy upstart. She’s determineert to make her name on the London Evening Gazette, if only Someren will give her a chance. Then Ebony disappears during a performance at the Londen Coliseum, and Frankie jumps at the chance to find out what happened. How did Ebony vanish, who was she afraid of, and what Goes on behind the Doors of the mysterious Hourglass Factory? From the newsrooms of Fleet Street to the suffragette headquarters, Frankie enters a world of society columnists, corset fetishists and circus freaks on the trail of a murderous villain with a plot more deadline than anyone could have imagined ...