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A Rip in the Veil (The Graham Saga Book 1) Kindle Edition
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?
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMay 11, 2017
- File size943 KB
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"The pages flew by as did the time -- wonderful storytelling by a very talented author." The Coffee Pot Book Club
About the Author
Had Anna Belfrage been allowed to choose, she'd have become a professional time traveler. As this was impossible, she instead authored the acclaimed Graham Saga, a time-travelling series set in the seventeenth century. Her latest series is set in the 1320s and features Adam de Guirande, his wife Kit, and their adventures during Roger Mortimer's rise to power.
Greg Patmore, Audie Award winner, became an actor in his mid-forties, fulfilling a lifelong ambition, when he trained at Arts Educational Schools, and has enjoyed a varied career on stage, screen, and in the voice-over studio ever since.
Product details
- ASIN : B071VP9V5F
- Publisher : Timelight Press; 3rd edition (May 11, 2017)
- Publication date : May 11, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 943 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 375 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #653,269 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #712 in Historical Scottish Fiction
- #1,647 in Time Travel Romance
- #1,857 in Scottish Historical Romance (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Had Anna been allowed to choose, she'd have become a professional time-traveller. No luck there, so instead she became a financial professional with two absorbing interests; history and writing. These days, Anna combines an exciting day-job with a large family and her writing endeavours. Plus she always finds the time to try out new recipes, chase down obscure rose bushes and initiate a home renovation scheme or two.
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.
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 is a story of loyalty and love set against the complications of Edward I’s invasion of Wales in the late 13th century.
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 several Reader’s Favorite medals as well as having won various Gold, Silver and Bronze Coffee Pot Book Club awards.
If you want to know more about Anna, why not visit her website, https://www.annabelfrage.com
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Customers find the story engaging and well-written. They enjoy the time travel elements and adventure in the book. However, some find the book dull and boring after a while. There are mixed opinions on the character development - some find them believable and lifelike, while others feel they lack depth. The writing quality is also praised as well-crafted and talented. Opinions differ on the romance - some find it realistic and well-developed, while others find it unrealistic and out of character.
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Customers enjoy the book's readability. They find the story engaging with interesting twists and a satisfying read. The series is dear to them, and they hope for more books in the series.
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"...It has a great ending. I won't share how it went, because it makes the story so rich...." Read more
Customers enjoy the time travel story. They find it interesting, romantic, and a fantasy adventure mixed with sci-fi elements. The author sets up the time travel from modern to historical worlds well. The history is interesting and the characters are authentic and believable. Overall, the book offers a different type of time travel story.
"...The plot centres around time switch/time travel and that's a theme I love, (it constitutes the storyline of my own first novel FAIR WEATHER) so I..." Read more
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"...There is a wide cast of characters and all are absorbing, making for a book which pulls you in, an adventure which intrigues, and an atmospheric..." Read more
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"...Definitely not. This cross-genre gem is a well researched, skillfully constructed and brilliantly written tale with the strength to draw the reader..." Read more
"...She is well characterised and believable, but sometimes seemed carelessly impatient with her amazingly unexpected new existence and at first exerted..." Read more
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"...Alex and Matthew are well drawn, and life in 17th century Scotland is depicted in a realistic way...." Read more
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"...that, badly, right down to the parts I did not like, the unnecessary lewd details that really never added to the story but merely to the shock..." Read more
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"A Rip in the Veil was an amazing book! I loved that it kept me interested at all times awaiting to read what was to come...." Read more
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"Worth about 3.5 in stars, not a bad read, not the best of the timeline style books, but good, too many authors seem to dip into the same story line..." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2013The first step into a grand adventure
From the first pages, we know that Alex Lind is very much a contemporary woman, the kind who carries a cell phone, wears denim jeans and dares to swear at her German car when its electrical systems dares fails in the middle of one of her favorite classical CDs. Then she finds herself caught up in an anomaly that lands her in rural seventeenth century Scotland and into the already stressed life of Matthew Graham. Just another time slip novel, you say? Definitely not. This cross-genre gem is a well researched, skillfully constructed and brilliantly written tale with the strength to draw the reader in, not just to the final page, but well beyond The rip in the veil of time that leaves Alex in Scotland is just the beginning, and its' pages leave the reader salivating for the next installment, and then the next on after that. Each exquisite segment in the adventure of Alex and Matthew stands on its own merit, but the promise of more is as seductive as a cleavage or a mischievous smile from across a crowded room Ms. Belfrage gives us just enough of the back-story of each Alex and Matthew to hint of what will be coming next, and just enough of a glimpse into the lives each of them has left behind to know that the characters from their pasts are not frozen in time. Life for them is also evolving and perhaps on a collision course with Alex and Matthew Graham. We also revisit the troubles of the past of each and we learn, just as they do, that neither of them is perfect. Anna has left a child behind with whom she has never bonded, and Matthew has never been able to take part in the life of his own son. He has made an enemy of a brother who had worshipped him as his champion when a child and could not forgive him for his mortal failings. Alex and Matthew have myriad family issues hanging over them.
It does not help that whenever Matthew attempts to act as Alex's defender and champion, she is the one who knows the karate moves. (Anna Belfrage writes action scenes like a Taekwondo Black Belt). It seems that not all of the men who are tracking them are looking for Matthew, and that Alex may not be the only time traveler in the tale. At this point we learn that her mother Mercedes, of whom we get occasional glimpses in the first two books of the series, is a time traveling witch who has offended some very evil men who have no qualms about torturing her daughter in order to catch up with her mother. I hope we see much more of Mercedes in the next offerings. But Matthew does not need time traveling kidnappers and assassins to complicate his own life. Thanks to his unforgiving brother Luke, he has a passel of problems of his own. Luke has planted false evidence of Matthew's death and taken Matthew's wife, and they are raising a child whose paternity is far from settled. In spite of the advantages he has taken, he still bears a grudge and has no inclination to play by any rules but his. The twists in the plot that follow would be utterly bizarre if constructed by a less talented writer or one who did not spend time researching the historical setting. The love affair between Alex and Matthew is predictable, but the complications that come with it are unique. And the steamy sex between them is scintillating but not offensive.
Never once does Ms.Belfrage forget that she has pitted a liberated 21st Century woman with the quintessential 17th Century Scot. As the story progresses, Alex grows less and less anxious to escape Matthew's timeline, but there are still times when her remembered present pulls her back. She may tuck her hair into a modest little cap, learn to do the laundry and tend the farm animals, but she is still very much the same progressive and opinionated woman that time has deposited in Restoration Scotland. One of my favorite exchanges between them is when he teasingly compliments her for being a good wife, "obedient and submissive. You tend to your husband and his needs....I never have to punish you," he continues. "You try, mister, try that once, and I'll have your balls in a vice," Alex replies. While Rip in the Veil remains very much Alex and Matthew's story, the other characters who populate its pages enrich the tale and have a reason to be in it. The author's multicultural, multifaceted background shines through and allows her to interject characters that a more insulated author should never try. Even the worst of the villains Hector and Luke are depicted with integrity and purpose and at least a sprinkling of empathy.
One of the many features that makes A Rip in the Veil a hands-down five star reading experience is an ending that satisfies yet guarantees that there is much, much more to come. I have recommended the books in the Graham Saga to my most discerning friends.
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2013A RIP IN THE VEIL
I found this book a real delight. It's the first in a trilogy, and I certainly look forward to the next two. The plot centres around time switch/time travel and that's a theme I love, (it constitutes the storyline of my own first novel FAIR WEATHER) so I was prepared for a fun read, and that's exactly what I got. This is not a book which pretends to be great literature, nor great writing with a multi-layered or deeply heavy plot. It is an easy and pleasurable read with some fascinating characters and plenty of action. The time travel (unlike some other time switch novels) is not only an integral part of the story, but has several interesting and unusual twists, making for a far more dramatic and interesting theme than some simply sporadic and meaningless hop into the past.
I found Matthew, the hero, deliciously tantalising and very believable for his time-period (early 17th century Scotland - an era which I have read holds particular meaning for the author) although I was not quite so keen on the heroine, Alex, who is the principal protagonist. She is well characterised and believable, but sometimes seemed carelessly impatient with her amazingly unexpected new existence and at first exerted little imagination on the probable difficulties of a man faced with a woman born three centuries after himself. But then of course, poor Alex is not having an easy time of it either.
There is a wide cast of characters and all are absorbing, making for a book which pulls you in, an adventure which intrigues, and an atmospheric presentation of a very different time in history. There are places where I would have enjoyed more insight and detail, and places where I could have accepted a little less, but on the whole this is a very well told story and my attention was held throughout.
It is not a book I willingly put down but then I became rather ill shortly after starting and could not read anything for some time. Getting back to Alex and Matthew was something I continued to look forward to. Once I joined them again, I was not disappointed. This is a book I would call good unashamed fun.
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- Amazon CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars I’ve discovered a new love, time-slips, and a wonderful new author!
I’ve discovered a new love, time-slips, and a wonderful new author! When Alex Lind gets caught up in a violent thunderstorm, the last thing she expects is to end up in 1658. Or bump into Matthew Graham, an escaped prisoner, on the run, from the English. This was an excellent read, full of intrigue and suspense, with two strong and beautifully defined characters who draw you in, and keep you there, in a world where violence is never more than a heartbeat away. Will Alex remain where she is, or will she be swept away, back to modern times? Who exactly is her mother, Mercedes? And can Matthew hang onto his newly found freedom and find his happy ever after? The twists and turns of this enthralling love story will keep you reading long into the night! It did me; I loved it!
- bookworm27Reviewed in Australia on April 18, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
I just could not put this book down.Although similar to the Outlander series,the stories are very enjoyable.
- Christine LewisReviewed in Australia on March 9, 2022
3.0 out of 5 stars An OK read
I am a fan of time travel. This time travel had a slight variation. I would not say it is the best I have ever read, I would just say OK. It was a little predictable at times and I found things Alex did annoying or stupid that continually resulted in putting herself in danger. Towards the end I got a bit sick of the detailed sex scenes and actually skipped over parts. I would not choose to read another in this series.
- Meowy McMeowfaceReviewed in Canada on April 19, 2016
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
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- A. G. LockhartReviewed in the United Kingdom on May 9, 2015
4.0 out of 5 stars pretty much where I grew up
I don't think I've read a timeslip novel since the historicals by John Dickson Carr and I was unsure of my reaction when I embarked on this one. A Rip in the Veil appealed to me for two reasons. It is set in southern Scotland, pretty much where I grew up. My maternal grandmother's ancestors lived in Ayrshire near to where the story's hero, Matthew Graham, has his family home. In addition, some of my spurious paternal ancestors were involved in the Covenanting Wars, which also feature in the book. Anna Belfrage has constructed an enjoyable romance with plenty of sex and violence, always with an eye on the historical background. Her depiction of life in 17th century Scotland is well managed and (as far as I can tell) pretty accurate. During a violent thunderstorm, Alexandra Lind falls into a time portal and finds herself in the past, where she meets and falls for Graham, a landowner who has been betrayed and unjustly imprisoned. As Alex tries to adjust to life in the 17th century, she discovers she has been followed from the 21st by an inquisitor from Isabella's Spain who is pursuing a vendetta against her mother. She also has to contend with Graham's betrayer, his half-brother Luke. The plot takes lots of twists and turns before the villains get their come-uppance and the main protagonists settle for a happy-for-now ending. Occasionally, suspension of disbelief becomes hard; there are too many startling coincidences of time and space, but get over those and you have a very entertaining novel. A Rip in the Veil is the first novel in a series of 8 and though I enjoyed reading it I don't think I have the will to tackle the rest. I can cope with trilogies but another 7 books might test my patience to breaking point. The version of A Rip in the Veil that I read (the KIndle edition) had some negative grammar/syntax issues which spoiled a read which I might otherwise have given five stars. I often find this problem in Kindle books but short of reading the hard copy too it's impossible to say at what stage of editing the errors occur.