Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Spotlight on Anna Belfrage, author of The Whirlpools of Time

He hoped for a wife. He found a companion through time and beyond.

It is 1715 and for Duncan Melville something fundamental is missing from his life. Despite a flourishing legal practice and several close friends, he is lonely, even more so after the recent death of his father. He needs a wife—a companion through life, someone to hold and be held by. What he wasnt expecting was to be torn away from everything he knew and find said woman in 2016…

Erin Barnes has a lot of stuff going on in her life. She doesnt need the additional twist of a stranger in weird outdated clothes, but when he risks his life to save hers, she feels obligated to return the favour. Besides, whoever Duncan may be, she cant exactly deny the immediate attraction.

The complications in Erins life explode. Events are set in motion and to Erins horror she and Duncan are thrown back to 1715. Not only does Erin have to cope with a different and intimidating world, soon enough she and Duncan are embroiled in a dangerous quest for Duncans uncle, a quest that may very well cost them their lives as they travel through a Scotland poised on the brink of rebellion. 

Will they find Duncans uncle in time? And is the door to the future permanently closed, or will Erin find a way back?

Trigger Warnings: Sexual Content. Violence.


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Anna Belfrage

Fun Facts

(Stuff you may or may not already know!)


I am an earthquake survivor. We were living in Peru at the time and I was at home with my mother and baby sister when suddenly everything began to shake. I remember how my mother grabbed hold of me and more or less threw me down the stairs, screaming at me to run outside. The floor tilted this way and that, windows burst apart in showers of glass as the frames bent and broke, but somehow we made it outside. The ground quieted. There were huge cracks in the road, and the house looked sort of awry. This is when the phone began to ring and my mother handed me my sister and told me to hold her and rushed back inside to answer. Seconds later, the second wave struck…

 

I am happy to report we all survived, but to this day it takes only the slightest of tremors for me to be wide awake and on my way towards the door.



1755 Lisbon earthquake

 

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I dreamed of being a Navy SEAL – well, the Swedish equivalent. I spent hours practising my underwater swimming, how to surface without leaving bubbles. It irked me immensely that my younger sister was a better swimmer than me, but at least I was much stronger and braver. Of course I was: I was the oldest, the one who always defended her. Anyway: for years, I expended ridiculous amounts of hours on improving my physique until the day when I shared my dream with my father.

 

He looked rather taken aback. “A SEAL?”

 

“Yup. Or an explorer.”

 

“Hmm,” he said. He cleared his throat. “Women aren’t allowed to become SEALs,” he said. It was the first time—but not the last—I crashed into the glass ceiling. But hey, at least I’m a strong swimmer.

 

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Show me a dog and I can probably tell you the breed—even the more obscure ones. Why? Well, I’ve done a stint or two as ring secretary on various dog shows. It was quite exhausting, because the secretary is in charge of organising the contestants, and many dogs just don’t like being organised. And if the owner is inexperienced—in Sweden we rarely use professional handlers except for the really, really big events—they don’t much like being organised either. Or being told their dog doesn’t quite have it to become Best of Breed.

 


Asterix

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I was once offered a place in Venezuela’s national softball team. I was thrilled. But it all came with a caveat: I had to become a Venezuelan citizen.

 

“Forget it,” my father said. “No way is my daughter changing her citizenship.”

 

And there went my only shot at an athletic career. Today, I am very happy my father refused. Over the last few decades, Venezuela has slowly but safely gone to the dogs.

 

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I am fluent in three languages. Swedish is my cradle tongue, Spanish is the language I write poetry in and English is the language I prefer to read and write in. 

 

“But you’re Swedish! You should write in your own language.”

 

Except that English and Spanish are as much my own language as Swedish—that’s what happens when you grow up abroad. Now and then, though, I try to write in Swedish. It seems sort of silly to be writing a book about Queen Kristina of Sweden set in Sweden in English, but no matter how I try, the end result is flat and boring. Very weird, right?

 

 

 Anna Belfrage

Had Anna been allowed to choose, she’d have become a time-traveller. As this was impossible, she became a financial professional with two absorbing interests: history and writing. Anna has authored the acclaimed time-travelling series The Graham Saga, set in 17th century Scotland and Maryland, as well as the equally acclaimed medieval series The King’s Greatest Enemy which is set in 14th century England. 

Anna has also published The Wanderer, a fast-paced contemporary romantic suspense trilogy with paranormal and time-slip ingredients. Her September 2020 release, His Castilian Hawk, has her returning to medieval times. Set against the complications of Edward I’s invasion of Wales, His Castilian Hawk is a story of loyalty, integrity—and love. Her most recent release, The Whirlpools of Time, is a time travel romance set against the backdrop of brewing rebellion in the Scottish highlands.

All of Anna’s books have been awarded the IndieBRAG Medallion, she has several Historical Novel Society Editor’s Choices, and one of her books won the HNS Indie Award in 2015. She is also the proud recipient of various Reader’s Favorite medals as well as having won various Gold, Silver, and Bronze Coffee Pot Book Club awards.

Find out more about Anna, her books, and her eclectic historical blog on her website, www.annabelfrage.com .

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