Description - The Velvet Cloak of Moonlight by Christina Courtenay
Award-winning author Christina Courtenay delivers another atmospheric time-slip. 'The Velvet Cloak of Moonlight' is set in a medieval castle (Raglan) in seventeenth-century Wales and the present day. "As the velvet cloak of moonlight settled over the ruined towers of Raglan Castle, the shadows beneath them stirred
" When newly widowed Tess returns to Merrick Court, her husband's home, it's to confront her past head-on. But during a visit to the nearby Raglan Castle, an extraordinary hallucination transports her to a past that existed long before her own to seventeenth-century Wales and to a castle on the brink of a siege. Even when Tess leaves Raglan, the strangeness continues as her life becomes increasingly intertwined with her dreams and visions. And when she meets Josh Owens, a stranger from New Zealand, the parallels become even more obvious. But perhaps the voices from the past are simply trying to tell their own story or is it something more ... AUTHOR: Christina lives in Hereford 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's debut 'Trade Winds' was short listed for the 2011 Romantic Novelists' Association's Pure Passion Award for Best Historical Fiction. 'The Scarlet Kimono' won the 2011 Big Red Reads Best Historical Fiction Award. Highland Storms (in 2012) and 'The Gilded Fan' (in 2014) won the Best Historical Romantic Novel of the year award and 'The Silent Touch of Shadow' 'won the 2012 Best Historical Read Award from the Festival of Romance. Christina is Chairman of the Romantic Novelists.
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