An American Archaeologist in London Penny Bright is going to become a real archaeologist. She's not going to let tough classes, obnoxious fellow students, or her rapidly dwindling funds stop her. Nor that she doesn't, apparently, even speak the same language. Then things get interesting. Penny gets an opportunity to dig at an old Underground platform. At Nine Elms, she is drawn into the story of a young woman who sheltered there during the London Blitz. Before this is over she'll have met mudlarkers and pantomime players, and gone from an illegal expedition into an abandoned power station to a bloody encounter on the very stage of Shakespeare's Globe; all in search of answers about a lost love and a secret buried for over seventy years. Until, trapped under the streets of London, she must confront the question of what it means to be a hero...
An American Archaeologist in London Penny Bright is going to become a real archaeologist. She's not going to let tough classes, obnoxious fellow students, or her rapidly dwindling funds stop her. Nor that she doesn't, apparently, even speak the same language. Then things get interesting. Penny gets an opportunity to dig at an old Underground platform. At Nine Elms, she is drawn into the story of a young woman who sheltered there during the London Blitz. Before this is over she'll have met mudlarkers and pantomime players, and gone from an illegal expedition into an abandoned power station to a bloody encounter on the very stage of Shakespeare's Globe; all in search of answers about a lost love and a secret buried for over seventy years. Until, trapped under the streets of London, she must confront the question of what it means to be a hero...
