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Overview: Christina Courtenay lives in Herefordshire in the UK and is married with two children. Although born in England she has a Swedish mother and was brought up in Sweden. In her teens, the family moved to Japan where she had the opportunity to travel extensively in the Far East.
Christina is a Vice President and former chairman and of the UK’s Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA). She won their Elizabeth Goudge Trophy for a historical short story in 2001 and the Katie Fforde Bursary for a promising new writer in 2006.
Christina also writes contemporary YA and ‘New England Rocks’ was shortlisted for the RNA’s awards in 2014. The other three books in the series were published under a different name – Pia Fenton.
When she’s not writing, she spends her time tracking down elusive ancestors for her family tree, and her other hobbies include archaeology (the armchair variety), listening to loud rock music and collecting things.
Genre: Fiction > Romance Historical
The Silent Touch of Shadows (#1)
Lose yourself in the spellbinding tale of two women from the same family, separated by 600 years, but their fates no less intertwined.
A love that echoes through the ages . . .
After genealogist Melissa Grantham’s marriage falls apart, she escapes to her family’s ancestral home in Kent.
But from the moment she arrives at Ashleigh Manor, vivid dreams of a young couple in love from the fourteenth century haunt her.
Before she can dismiss them as nothing more than her imagination, Melissa meets a handsome stranger who lives in a nearby cottage. The same man from her dreams.
Melissa feels a burning attraction to Jake, but can she really trust her feelings, or are they merely caused by a love so strong it has echoed through generations . . .
And how are they tied to the 600-year-old tragedy locked away within the looming shadow of Ashleigh Manor?
The Secret Kiss of Darkness (#2)
He has waited an eternity for her.
When Kayla Sinclair arrives at Sotheby’s auction room in Mayfair, she is mesmerised by a life-size eighteenth-century portrait of a tall, dark man with piercing blue eyes.
She finds her life irrevocably changed by a powerful obsession with the portrait, and Kayla’s desire to discover the identity of the man leads her to the mysterious Marcombe Hall.
There Kayla uncovers the dark mystery surrounding the forbidden love of smuggler Jago Kewswell and Lady Eliza Marcombe.
Over two centuries separate Kayla and Jago, but their lives become inextricably linked as the lines between the past and the present are blurred.
Now Kayla’s choices could heal the shadows of the past, yet what she cannot foresee is the danger that lies ahead in her own future.
But fate always has a reason . . .
The Soft Whisper of Dreams (#3)
Every whisper holds a shadow, and every dream leads to a secret.
Madeline Browne’s world is shattered by a revelation delivered by the family solicitor amidst the grief of her parents’ sudden passing.
Seeking the comfort of her friend Kayla, Maddie finds herself at the imposing Marcombe Hall, where the recurring nightmare about a red-haired man from her childhood returns every time she closes her eyes.
As she navigates her grief and the dreams that haunt her, Maddie encounters Alex Marcombe, a handsome but aloof man with his own shadows and secrets.
Maddie and Alex find themselves drawn together by an unexplainable connection. But their burgeoning romance faces trials from mysterious occurrences around the ancestral home.
As the line between reality and dreams begins to blur, will Maddie and Alex be able to withstand the echoes of the past closing in around them?
The Velvet Cloak of Moonlight (#4)
They are separated by centuries.
But bound by fate.
Tess Hargreaves is renovating Merrick Court, a grand estate by Raglan Castle, tied to her late husband’s lineage.
There she uncovers a portrait of Arabella and Rhys, a young couple from seventeenth-century Wales, triggering a series of dormant memories from Raglan Castle’s final siege in 1646.
With the help of handsome and mysterious Josh Owens, Tess delves into the secrets of her ancestral home. She realises that Arabella and Rhys’s unfinished story is intertwined with her own as she is haunted by visions.
And now history is repeating itself.
As Tess and Josh piece together the tapestry of Arabella and Rhys’s tragic love story, they realise it has striking similarities to their own budding romance.
It seems the past has secrets to tell — and all they have to do is listen.
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