Friday, 2 October 2026

The V.I.P. Reader: Travel Back In Time - Venture Into a Portal where the past becomes the present


There is more to a book than a cover,
 pages and words.
They are portals to different worlds
and exciting adventures.

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Grab a book and enjoy a good read! 
where time merges the past to the present...

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Anna Belfrage

The Graham Saga (9 book series)

From Book 1- A Rip In The Veil: On a muggy August day in 2002 Alex Lind disappears without a trace. On an equally stifling August day in 1658, Matthew Graham finds her on an empty Scottish moor. Life will never be the same for Alex – or for Matthew.

Matthew doesn’t know what to make of this strange woman who has seemingly fallen from the skies—what is she, a witch? Alex is convinced the tall, gaunt man is some sort of hermit, an oddball, but she quickly realises the odd one out is she, not he.

Catapulted from a life of modern comfort, Alex grapples with her new existence, further complicated by the dawning realization that someone from her time has followed her here—and not exactly to extend a helping hand.

Potential compensation for this brutal shift in fate comes in the shape of Matthew, a man she should never have met, not when she was born three centuries after him. But Matthew comes with baggage of his own and on occasion his past threatens them both. At times Alex finds it all excessively exciting, longing for the structured life she used to have.

How will she ever get back? And more importantly,
does she really want to?

Buy Link The Graham Saga: https://mybook.to/TGSnew

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Loretta Livingstone

Book 1 of 3

1191: Giles de Soutenay has never liked or trusted John, Count of Mortain, but when John is taken seriously ill, it falls to Giles to ensure his survival.

2006: Marion Hart, visiting the ruined Abbey of Sparnstow, could never have imagined she would be called upon to help save one of the most dangerous men of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Falling through a gap in time, she finds herself administering first aid to John, inadvertently endangering both herself and Giles.

amazon author page: https://mybook.to/u4nuJO

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Christina Courtenay

Book 1 of 4

The Silent Touch of Shadows: A completely unforgettable and emotional historical timeslip romance 

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?

Buy from: Amazon.co.uk  Amazon.com

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Mary Ann Bernal

travel to a moment that refuses to be forgotten.

A Dark Secret. A Fierce Battle. A Shrouded Destiny.

When a medieval portrait draws historian Gwyneth Franger into a forgotten fortress, her research uncovers more than a mystery, it becomes a gateway. Catapulted into the final days before the Norman invasion, she finds herself in the arms of a man history says must die. Trapped in the eleventh century, she navigates shifting allegiances, ancient tunnels, and a fate that’s already been written. But destiny is not fixed. And some secrets can echo across bloodlines. She knows the truth. She holds the key. But every word she speaks could destroy the future.

buy links: https://books2read.com/u/b5o8p6

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available from 15th October or pre-order the e-book

A stolen crown jewel and an enigmatic portrait force two women to confront the devastating choices they made for love—and summon the courage to live with the truth.

1619: Barbara, Lady Villiers, at the bidding of her brother-in-law, the Duke of Buckingham, has stolen the dying Queen Anna’s jewels—and kept the greatest prize for herself. The Queen’s Tears, a brooch of impossible value, torments her: too dangerous to sell, too priceless to discard, and possibly her only means of securing her children’s future. When the family fortunes are shattered, Barbara faces an impossible choice: remain loyal to Buckingham—or betray him by confessing the theft to King Charles.

Present Day: Julia Darke opens her Cotswolds bookshop to start life over peacefully. Instead, she stumbles across a Van Dyck portrait of Barbara’s daughter, with tantalising signs of the missing Queen’s Tears hidden in plain sight. The discovery also brings her face-to-face with the last person she wants to see again. Oliver Villiers, the Oxford art conservator she once loved and walked away from, holds the cipher to the painting—and to Julia’s own unresolved history.Reluctantly drawn together by a shared obsession to uncover Barbara’s secret, Julia and Oliver follow the trail of the Queen’s Tears—and the closer Julia comes to Barbara’s truth, the harder it becomes to hide from her own.

Inspired by the true stories of Queen Anna of Denmark’s stolen jewels and a missing Van Dyck painting, The Queen’s Tears weaves history, fiction, and family research across the centuries. Readers of The Lady of the Tower will find old favourites—and a new heroine.

BUY: https://geni.us/TheQueensTears (e-book pre-order)

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Cathie Dunn

Love Lost in Time: A compelling dual-timeline tale of discovery and redemption

A reluctant daughter. A dutiful wife. A mystery of the ages.

Languedoc, France, 2018 Historian Madeleine Winters would rather research her next project than rehash the strained relationship she had with her late mother. However, to claim her inheritance, she reluctantly agrees to stay the one year required in her late mother’s French home and begins renovations. But when she’s haunted by a female voice inside the house and tremors emanating from beneath her kitchen floorboards, she’s shocked to discover ancient human bones.

The Mediterranean coast, AD 777 Seventeen-year-old Nanthild is wise enough to know her place. Hiding her Pagan wisdom and dutifully accepting her political marriage, she’s surprised when she falls for her Christian husband, the Count of Carcassonne. But she struggles to keep her forbidden religious beliefs and her healing skills secret while her spouse goes off to fight in a terrible, bloody war.

As Maddie settles into her rustic village life, she becomes obsessed with unraveling the mysterious history buried in her new home. And when Nanthild is caught in the snare of an envious man, she’s terrified she’ll never embrace her beloved again.

Can two women torn apart by centuries help each other finally find peace?

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