Shadows in Scarlet by Lillian Stewart Carl

I recently stumbled upon Lillian Stewart Carl thanks to the suggestion of a fellow author, and, I must say, I'm thrilled to have a new talented writer to glom.  She writes in several genres, including romantic suspense, as seen in the novel highlighted here.  Shadows in Scarlet is a ghost story, among other things, a sub-genre I rarely read because it can be difficult to handle well.  Stewart Carl handles it with aplomb.  The premise was intriguing and believable, and the ghost both charming and chilling.     

Amanda Witham's new job at an eighteenth-century manor in Colonial Williamsburg is a career move in the history business, nothing personal. Then archaeologists find a skeleton buried 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. Suddenly Amanda finds history to be very personal indeed. She promises James she'll reveal the truth about his death-just as soon as she figures out what the truth is. But by the time she arrives at James's ancestral castle in Scotland, his past has caught up with her present, and Amanda's future is 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.