Amanda Witham sees her new job at an eighteenth-century house as a career move, just part of the history business, nothing personal. Then archaeologists find a man's skeleton buried in the garden behind the house.

That night James Grant's ghost introduces himself to her. And a handsome and charming ghost he is, in the tartan kilt and scarlet coat of King George's Highland Regiment. Amanda promises James that she will reveal the truth about his death - as soon as she figures out what the truth is.

Amanda's quest begins in Colonial Williamsburg and ends at James's ancestral castle in Scotland. But nothing, not time and space, not illusion and reality, not love and death, turns out to be what she anticipated. And when James's past finally catches up with her present, Amanda finds her future held at sword's point.

There's more than one glint of scarlet in the shadows of the past - and in the shadows of the heart as well.

"Presenting a delicious mix of romance and supernatural suspense, Carl (Ashes to Ashes) delivers yet another immensely readable tale."
-- Publishers Weekly

"I don't think Lillian will have any trouble garnering devoted readers with this gracious story."
-ù Anne McCaffrey, author of THE SKIES OF PERN