{"product_id":"the-whispers-of-hadrians-wall-robert-walker-9798304354820","title":"The Whispers of Hadrian's Wall: Uncovering the Dark Secrets of an Ancient Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSome whispers wait two thousand years for the right person to hear them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen archaeologist Sarah Blackwood is called to a sealed Roman chamber beneath Hadrian's Wall, she expects another routine authentication. What she finds is a door that should not exist, a script no living scholar can read, and thirty minutes of her own life she cannot account for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe chamber holds a single line of carved characters above its threshold - twelve symbols in a language the British Academy buried a hundred years ago. Beneath them, a seam of stone has begun, impossibly, to open from the inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah is not the first archaeologist sent to this site. She is not the first to lose time in its presence. She is not the first to wake with a fresh scar she cannot explain, or to find sketches in her own handwriting that she has no memory of making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is, however, the first in a hundred years who might survive long enough to understand what is being done to her - and to the men, women, and children who have stood at this threshold across eighteen centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat waits beneath Hadrian's Wall is not a creature, not a curse, and not a god. It is something patient. Something that has been waiting for the right witness. Something that has, in the language of those who came before her, \u003ci\u003ealready chosen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA literary supernatural thriller in the tradition of Sarah Waters, Susan Hill, and Andrew Michael Hurley, \u003ci\u003eThe Whispers of Hadrian's Wall\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulously researched novel about archaeology, complicity, and the cost of bearing witness. For readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Little Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Loney\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Historian\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798304354820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95d","brand":"Robert Walker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48851088736511,"sku":"9798304354820","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-whispers-of-hadrians-wall-robert-walker-9798304354820","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}