The Cliff's Edge (Bess Crawford, #13)

 

Our WW1 nurse, Bess, with the inflated ego and distain for the lower class has now put her nose in the affairs of new friends and almost becomes a victim herself. News of Simon Brandon's past will shake things up but that's a story for another time.

Smoking was actually popularized in Europe during WWI, as it was used by the soldiers in the trenches to fight against the smell of the thousands of decomposing corpse pieces scattered around the battlefield.