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Anna Belfrage Books in Order

Browse Anna Belfrage books in order, with short summaries, series guides, and simple where-to-start help for her time-slip and historical novels.

Last updated: July 9, 2026

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A Rip in the Veil

by Anna Belfrage

2012

A thunderstorm hurls Alex Lind from 2002 into 1658, where escaped Scot Matthew Graham becomes her only ally. Stranded in the past, she must survive a harsher world and an attraction that changes both their lives.

Like Chaff in the Wind

by Anna Belfrage

2012

Matthew is taken by his brother and sold into captivity in Virginia. Alex refuses to leave him there, setting out on a desperate rescue through a brutal colonial world where time and distance may defeat her first.

A Newfound Land

by Anna Belfrage

2013

Hoping for freedom and a quieter life, Alex and Matthew cross the ocean to colonial Maryland. The New World offers no easy peace, only fresh hardship, dangerous neighbours, and the hard work of starting over.

The Prodigal Son

by Anna Belfrage

2013

Matthew risks everything to aid persecuted Covenanters in Scotland, while Alex fears his faith will destroy their family. Love and conviction collide in a land where worship has become a matter of life and death.

Revenge and Retribution

by Anna Belfrage

2014

A run of calamities batters Alex and Matthew, testing the strength of their marriage and their will to keep going. This is a harsher, more intimate chapter in the Graham family's long fight to survive.

Serpents in the Garden

by Anna Belfrage

2014

Alex longs for quiet, but enemies close to home and trouble involving one of her sons make that impossible. In Maryland, family loyalties and old grudges turn ordinary life into something far more dangerous.

Whither Thou Goest

by Anna Belfrage

2014

When Matthew's estranged brother begs for help, duty sends Alex and Matthew to the West Indies in search of an enslaved nephew. It is a perilous journey, driven by family ties neither of them can ignore.

To Catch a Falling Star

by Anna Belfrage

2015

After years in Maryland, Matthew finally has a chance to return to Scotland. Alex goes with him to a homeland torn by political and religious strife, and to painful encounters with people they once left behind.

Days of Sun and Glory

by Anna Belfrage

2016

After Mortimer escapes the Tower, Adam becomes suspect in a frightened and violent England. With Queen Isabella plotting to protect her son, Adam and Kit are pulled into intrigue, invasion, and another turn of civil war.

In the Shadow of the Storm

by Anna Belfrage

2016

Adam de Guirande rides into Roger Mortimer's rebellion out of loyalty, even as he fears the cost. At home, his new wife Kit is hiding a false identity, and war in the Welsh Marches threatens to destroy them both.

There is Always a Tomorrow

by Anna Belfrage

2017

Alex and Matthew must protect their friend Carlos from an anti-Catholic mob while coping with the arrival of a bitter, grieving granddaughter they never knew existed. Family loyalties and old wounds make peace hard to find.

Under the Approaching Dark

by Anna Belfrage

2017

Edward II is gone, but peace does not follow. As Isabella and Mortimer rule for young Edward III, Adam and Kit face new rebellion, old enemies, and a dangerous task that could cost them everything.

A Torch in His Heart

by Anna Belfrage

2018

Helle Madsen arrives in London for a fresh start and instead meets Jason Morris, a stranger she somehow recognizes, and Sam Woolf, the sinister boss he clearly hates. A dark romance opens onto an ancient struggle reborn in the present.

The Cold Light of Dawn

by Anna Belfrage

2018

Young Edward III is done being ruled by Isabella and Roger Mortimer. Adam de Guirande is torn between the king he serves and the lord who shaped his life as England moves toward a final, painful confrontation.

A Flame Through Eternity

by Anna Belfrage

2019

Jason and Helle move toward the reckoning that has been chasing them across lifetimes. With Sam still driven by revenge, the trilogy builds to a final test of memory, desire, and whether old wrongs can ever be put right.

Smoke in Her Eyes

by Anna Belfrage

2019

Helle's bond with Jason deepens, but Sam Woolf remains the most dangerous part of a story that began thousands of years ago. Old desires, old betrayals, and modern-day danger push the love triangle into darker territory.

His Castilian Hawk

by Anna Belfrage

2020

In 1282, Robert FitzStephan is rewarded with a forced marriage to Noor, a young woman whose kin have died in Wales. Their uneasy union is tested by Edward I's brutal campaign and Noor's resolve to protect a threatened Welsh child.

The Castilian Pomegranate

by Anna Belfrage

2021

Queen Eleanor sends Robert and Noor to Aragon and Castile with two impossible demands, steal back a jewel and abandon their foster son. Instead they find war, jealousy, and deadly court politics closing in from every side.

The Whirlpools of Time

by Anna Belfrage

2021

Duncan Melville is torn out of 1715 and dropped into Erin Barnes's 2016. Then both are flung back to Jacobite Scotland, where danger, desire, and a desperate search for Duncan's missing uncle reshape both their lives.

Her Castilian Heart

by Anna Belfrage

2022

Robert's half-brother Eustace wants him dead, and Queen Eleanor wants Robert and Noor's mysterious foundling removed from sight. Noor's courage becomes the family's best defence as danger tightens around them.

Times of Turmoil

by Anna Belfrage

2023

Duncan and Erin want nothing more than a peaceful life with their twin daughters in 1718 Pennsylvania. Old enemies, new threats, and Erin's refusal to ignore cruelty make that hope feel dangerously out of reach.

The Castilian Orphan

by Anna Belfrage

2024

In 1294, Eustace returns to ruin Robert and Noor by exposing Lionel's explosive parentage. When rebellion pulls Robert away to fight in Wales, the family is left frighteningly exposed to a patient and ruthless enemy.

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Queen of Shadows

by Anna Belfrage

2026

Alma Ponce de León and Rodrigo de Altamar come of age in fourteenth-century Castile, amid the storms around Alfonso XI, Queen Maria, and Leonor de Guzmán. Love, ambition, and unrest shape every step of their journey.

Where should I start?

If you want time-travel family drama: A Rip in the VeilLike Chaff in the WindThe Prodigal Son
If you want a fresh time-slip romance: The Whirlpools of TimeTimes of Turmoil
If you want medieval England and power politics: In the Shadow of the StormDays of Sun and GloryUnder the Approaching DarkThe Cold Light of Dawn
If you want marriage, war, and thirteenth-century adventure: His Castilian HawkThe Castilian PomegranateHer Castilian Heart
If you want a darker modern romance with reincarnation: A Torch in His HeartSmoke in Her EyesA Flame Through Eternity

Author bio

Anna Belfrage is a Swedish novelist with a deep affection for history and an even deeper suspicion that one lifetime is not enough for all the centuries she wants to visit. Born in Sweden, she moved to South America as a baby and spent her childhood in several countries there. That left her trilingual and shaped by a mix of Latin American life, English history, and Swedish traditions.

History got its hooks into her early.

As a girl, Belfrage imagined a future as a writer, an Arctic explorer, a crusader, or Richard the Lionheart's favourite page. Time travel would have suited her best, but real life took a more practical turn. She studied business administration, built a demanding career, married, and raised four children, all while carrying stories around in her head and stealing time to write whenever she could.

Eventually, the stolen hours added up.

When family life became a little less all-consuming, Belfrage had the room to take her fiction seriously. The breakthrough was A Rip in the Veil, the first Graham Saga novel, which sends Alex Lind out of modern life and into 1658, straight into the path of Matthew Graham. That book set the pattern for much of what followed, big feelings, exact historical settings, and characters who have to keep going even when history gives them very little mercy.

Readers who start with The Graham Saga usually stay for the family story as much as the time slip. Belfrage likes long emotional arcs, marriages that are tested, children who grow up, and the clash between private love and public danger. In The Whirlpools of Time she returned to time travel with a new couple, Duncan and Erin, and a fresh setting in the Jacobite years. In His Castilian Hawk she moved further back again, into the brutal politics of Edward I's Wales and the wider world of late thirteenth-century Castile and Aragon.

Language is part of the story too. Belfrage has described herself as a trilingual Swede who writes fiction in English, while Spanish has long been part of her life as well. That slightly in-between position suits her work. Many of her characters are caught between places, loyalties, faiths, or even centuries.

She also writes historical fiction without the time-slip element. In the Shadow of the Storm and the rest of The King's Greatest Enemy follow Adam de Guirande through the chaos surrounding Edward II, Roger Mortimer, and young Edward III. Then there is A Torch in His Heart, which steps into darker contemporary territory while still keeping one foot in the past through reincarnation and old grudges. Across all these books, certain things keep coming back, loyal men in impossible binds, fierce women who refuse to stay quiet, and the way ordinary family life gets tangled up with war, faith, kings, and ambition.

Belfrage has said she reads constantly, has always had a thing about history, bakes cakes, drinks tea rather than coffee, and often ends up writing at the kitchen table. She lives in Malmö in southern Sweden and has also spoken about escaping to a country house in the woods. That feels fitting. Her novels may roam across centuries, but they are grounded in the daily business of love, work, food, family, and the stubborn hope that people can choose decency even in hard times.

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