# Tempted by the Runes by Christina Courtenay (Paperback)

**'Wonderfully written and a real page turner. Christina tells a story equally as well as Barbara Erskine'** **⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ reader review**  
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Features an exclusive bonus short story!**  
  
**Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay does for the Vikings what Diana Gabaldon's _Outlander_ and _Clanlans_ does for Scottish history.**  
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'The Queen of Timeslip Romance has done it again! A romantic and compelling read - a total page turner' SANDY BARKER**  
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'A brilliantly written timeslip that combines mystery and romance into a compelling and vividly imagined story' NICOLA CORNICK**  
  
**'I LOVED _Tempted by the Runes_. Christina Courtenay is guaranteed to carry me off to another place and time in a way that no other author succeeds in doing' SUE MOORCROFT  
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**_Born centuries apart. Bound by a love that defied time._**  
  
Madison Berger is visiting Dublin with her family for a Viking re-enactment festival, when she chances upon a small knife embedded in the banks of the Liffey. Maddie recognises what the runes on the knife's handle signify: the chance to have her own adventures in the past.  
  
Maddie only intends to travel back in time briefly, but a skirmish in 9th century Dublin results in her waking up on a ship bound for Iceland, with the man who saved her from attack.  
  
Geir Eskilsson has left his family in Sweden to boldly carve out a life of his own. He is immediately drawn to Maddie, but when he learns of her connection to his sisters-in-law, he begins to believe that Fate has played a part in bringing them together. Amidst the perils that await on their journey to a new land, the truest battle will be to win Maddie's heart and convince her that the runes never lie . . .  
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**Just some of the rich**

## Details

- **Price:** 9.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** Headline Publishing Group
- **Tags:** All Books, Romance

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