Christina Courtenay
Promises of the Runes
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Courtenay is without a doubt the Queen of Viking Romance. Along with several other time-slip romances, Courtenay has now written five books in ...Read Review
Whispers of the Runes
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In 2021, Sara Mattsson, a York silversmith, pulls a seax – a short sword – from an archaeological dig. She reads its runic inscription and is ...Read Review
The Runes of Destiny
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The Runes of Destiny is the follow-up to Christina Courtenay’s magical Echoes of the Runes. Although the books share a location and ...Read Review
Echoes of the Runes
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Christina Courtenay is an award-winning writer of historical romance, and Echoes of the Runes is her first book with Headline. Historian Mia Maddox ...Read Review
The Velvet Cloak of Moonlight
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Coincidentally, this title came up for review while I was planning a trip to Raglan Castle in South Wales, and it turned out ...Read Review
The Jade Lioness
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Japan, 1648. The only foreigners permitted to trade are the Dutch, and then only from the island enclave of Dejima, near Nagasaki. Temperance (“Temi”) ...Read Review
Monsoon Mists
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This is book 3 in Courtenay’s Kinross series. It’s 1759, and widower Jamie Kinross has swapped the cold of the pine forests of ...Read Review
The Secret Kiss of Darkness
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I found the illustration on the front of the book very intriguing, and once opened, the cover is lifted on a world of ...Read Review
The Gilded Fan
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The story is set in the 1640s, starting off in Japan and then going via Amsterdam to England at the time of the ...Read Review
The Silent Touch of Shadows
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The prologue to The Silent Touch of Shadows sets the tone for this romance. In Chapter One, we meet Melissa Grantham, a single ...Read Review
