{"product_id":"before-the-unearthing-depth-flick-inc-9798258667250","title":"Before the Unearthing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrince Leo is twenty-six years old, first in line to the throne.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe can waltz with flawless precision. He can sustain three hours of immaculate composure in front of a hundred and twelve guests. He knows how to defuse any social crisis in under three seconds. He can do everything. The one thing he cannot do is be himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the night of his birthday banquet, he stands beneath the crystal chandelier counting the forty-seven minutes until he can leave. His mind is not on the crown, nor the marriage negotiations, nor the carefully positioned noblewomen orbiting his attention. It is on a question he cannot name: \u003ci\u003eIs this actually my life?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answer arrives in the most unlikely of places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA public footpath. A line of yellow caution tape. A woman with short brown hair and bright eyes - mud-smeared, unhurried, entirely unimpressed by titles - crouching in a Bronze Age excavation site, brushing three-thousand-year-old pottery shards with focused precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer name is Chloe. She runs the dig.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe asks him: \u003ci\u003e\"Are you a tourist?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe says: \u003ci\u003e\"Something like that.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the most honest thing he has said in years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom that day forward, Leo begins driving two hours each way, twice a week, to a stretch of countryside where no one knows his face and no one needs him to perform anything. He learns to read soil colour, to work a trowel at the correct angle, to move slowly enough that three thousand years of history stays intact beneath his hands. He learns, for the first time, what it feels like to be genuinely present somewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut lies have a way of surfacing - like everything else the earth keeps.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen his true identity is exposed, when the palace's marriage pressure closes in again, and when the tabloid cameras train their lenses on the professional reputation Chloe has spent twelve years building, Leo is forced to confront the question he has been avoiding for twenty-six years: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAre you willing to give up the life you were assigned, for the life that is actually yours?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchaeology is the practice of bringing buried things back into the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a novel about a man learning to excavate himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGenre: \u003c\/b\u003e Contemporary Literary Romance \u003cb\u003eThemes: \u003c\/b\u003e Royalty - Archaeology - Self-Discovery - Authenticity vs. Performance - The Cost of Choosing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Depth Flick Inc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798258667250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Depth Flick Inc","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172934918399,"sku":"9798258667250","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/before-the-unearthing-depth-flick-inc-9798258667250","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}