A love that will change them forever
A treasure that will bring them home
West Mercia, AD 873 – Merewen’s settlement is on guard against the outside threat of the ‘Heathen’ Norsemen. But for Merewen, the real threats come from within, as her future is cruelly snatched away from her.
Eirik, a Norseman, finds himself abandoned and injured after his uncle’s plunder of Mercian land goes wrong. He thinks his fate is sealed – until Merewen saves his life.
Hereford, Present Day – Left reeling after a huge betrayal, Alix moves to her grandfather’s farm in Hereford to heal her broken heart. There, after being given a family heirloom, she soon finds herself
haunted by memories of a life she never lived, a relationship she never had, and a time in which she never existed.
Local farmer Noah is being hounded by the police to find the Viking hoard that his sister and her criminal boyfriend stole from his farm. Noah must prove his own innocence while struggling to decipher the curious connection he has to newcomer Alix – a bond that seems to transcend their
own reality.
As they search for the lost treasure, Alix and Noah start to feel the whispers of a love they never expected, one powerful enough to echo through history.
Christina Courtenay writes historical romance, time slip/dual time and time travel stories, and lives in Herefordshire (near the Welsh border) in the UK. Although born in England, she has a Swedish mother and was brought up in Sweden – hence her abiding interest in the Vikings. Christina is a Vice President and former chairman and of the UK’s Romantic Novelists’ Association and has won several
awards, including the RoNA for Best Historical Romantic Novel twice with Highland Storms (2012) and The Gilded Fan (2014) and the RNA Fantasy Romantic Novel of the year 2021 with Echoes of the
Runes. RIPPLES THROUGH TIME (dual time historical romance published by Headline Review 21st November 2025) is her latest novel. Christina is a keen amateur genealogist and loves history and
archaeology (the armchair variety).
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My thoughts: I really enjoy these dual timeline romances, this one set in early Britain during the time of the Saxons and Viking raids and modern day Herefordshire.
As farmer Noah and his neighbour Alix grow closer and search for the missing hoard of gold that his sister and her rubbish boyfriend stole from his land, in 873, Viking raider Eirik is injured and healer Merewen helps him and takes him back to her village, where her father is in charge.
The two couples, separated by hundreds of years, are similar in many ways, they are all good, genuine people who deserve happiness and good fortune. Noah works hard, looks after his sheep and is a good neighbour, Alix has been disappointed in love, and having moved to Hereford to be nearer her grandfather and start again. Eirik is also starting over, having been left for dead by his uncle, Merewen is another hard worker, acting as healer to her community and dealing with her jealous sister.
A necklace Alix’s grandfather gives her seems to connect to the past, both she and Noah have seen glimpses of another life, and are both confused and fascinated by this. Noah’s farm seems to be the same place the Eirik and Merewen meet, the land contains an ancient stone structure, which acts as a conduit between time periods.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.
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