Logline: the true-life love story between archaeologist Howard Carter and his patron’s aristocratic daughter

From acclaimed author Katherine Kirkpatrick comes the thrilling story of the real-life residents of Highclere Castle, the manor made famous in the “Downton Abbey” television series and films. To Chase the Glowing Hours follows Lady Eve, the twenty-one-year-old daughter of eccentric Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon, from her opulent home in the English countryside to the Valley of the Kings. There she hopes to realize her father’s dream of finding an intact royal tomb, that of King Tutankhamun. Bankrupted by the Great War and two decades of fruitless archaeological digs, Eve’s family seems poised to garner the riches they need to hold on to their ancestral estate.

Swept up in the romance of their adventure, Eve believes she’s found love in the brilliant but temperamental Howard Carter, the archaeologist employed by her father. In the Valley’s underground, Eve and Carter share a breathtaking moment as they peer through a hole in an ancient wall and discover the lavish riches of King Tut’s golden treasure.

Soon word of the treasure gets out, and Eve and Carter must combat peasant laborers, reporters, mobs of tourists, and Egyptian nationalists who lobby for policies to prevent newly discovered antiquities from leaving Egypt. When her father becomes mortally ill, Eve becomes a key player in the unfolding drama that will determine whether her family will be allotted a share of the Tutankhamun treasures. As she struggles to save Highclere, she must also come to terms with her feelings for Carter and for a suitor from her own class.

In this coming-of-age story, Eve transforms from a naïve, romantic girl accustomed to an easy and luxurious life to a mature young woman who realizes that the world is not her playground. To Chase the Glowing Hours is not only an adventure story of dazzling riches emerging from the darkness, but a panoramic journey of love, greed, loss, death, and self-discovery.