Sean Kendrick


 * " This time of year, I live and breathe the beach. My cheeks feel raw wth the wind throwing sand at them. My arms ache from holding up two thousand pounds of horse. I have forgotten what a full night's sleep feels like and what my name sounds like spoken instead of shouted across yards of sand. I am so, so alive."

Sean Kendrick is the male protagonist. He is a horse lover and four-time champion of the Scorpio Races.

Biography
When Sean was eight years old, his mother left him and his father for the mainland. When he was ten years old, his father was killed during the Scorpio Races and so Benjamin Malvern, the rich horse breeder of the island, gave him a job at his yard as well as a small flat above the stable for him to live in.

Sean first took part in the Scorpio Races when he was thirteen. He won the race for the first time when he was 15, having previously lost to Ian Privett on Penda.

Personality

 * "You are the oldest nineteen I’ve ever met, Sean Kendrick."

Sean is composed and self-assured, more at home among horses than among people. He is the most valuable worker of the Malvern Yard due to his natural way with the horses and his love of the capaill uisce, a love shared by few others, meaning that he often has to take care of them without the help of the other grooms who are too afraid. He is hard-working and takes it upon himself to carry out his job properly.

Appearance

 * "This close, he’s almost too severe to be handsome: sharp-edged cheekbones and razor-edge nose and dark eyebrows. His hands are bruised and torn from his time with the capaill uisce. Like the fishermen on the island, his eyes are permanently narrowed against the sun and the sea. He looks like a wild animal. Not a friendly one."