The Shadowy Horses

Archaeologist Verity Grey accepts a post on a private dig near a village on the Scottish Borders, where her employer Peter Quinnell has staked his reputation on finding the lost Ninth Roman Legion. His conviction rests on Robbie, a local boy who claims to see a Roman sentinel walking the fields, a ghostly guardian standing watch over his fallen comrades. As Verity settles into the eccentric household and grows drawn to the reserved archaeologist David Fortune, someone begins working to sabotage the excavation. Kearsley folds a slow-building romance, a family of vivid characters, and a whisper of the supernatural into a story about the past demanding to be found.