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She drove through the night. At sunrise, she saw the lighthouse. And standing on the cliff, grey-haired but unmistakable, was Eleanor.

Juniper always listened to the BBC World Service while she worked. It was the one constant in her chaotic life—the calm, clipped tones of reporters narrating wars, elections, and weather patterns as she restored antique globes in her tiny Brighton shop. -BBCSurprise- I Love A Good Challenge - Juniper...

Beneath the lion’s empty eye. Trafalgar Square. Nelson’s Column. The four bronze lions—but their eyes weren’t empty. Unless… one of the lions had been restored years ago, and a replica eye had fallen out and never been replaced. She drove through the night

“Excuse me,” she said. “Did the BBC send you?” Juniper always listened to the BBC World Service

Juniper clutched the key, tears streaming. The challenge wasn’t about history or money. It was a sixty-year-old message in a bottle, launched by her grandmother via the most trusted voice in Britain.

Juniper’s hands froze over a cracked 1940s globe of a pre-war Europe. She loved a good challenge. More than that, she needed one. Her shop, Cartographic Curiosities , was three months behind on rent, and her only company was a sassy parrot named Meridian who liked to shout “You’re broke!” at customers.