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C. F. Dunn

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C. F. Dunn is a British author of historical fiction, mystery and suspense whose work combines carefully researched settings with stories of loyalty, betrayal and personal conflict. After studying medieval history, she founded and ran a specialist school for children and young people with dyslexia and autism before becoming a full-time writer. She now lives in South West England, where the region’s historic landscapes and coastline continue to influence her writing.

Dunn began her published fiction career with Mortal Fire, the first novel in The Secret of the Journal series, which blends history, romance and supernatural mystery. She later returned more directly to medieval England with The Tarnished Crown, a series set during the Wars of the Roses. Beginning with Wheel of Fortune and continuing with Sun Ascendant and Degrees of Affinity, the series follows characters whose private loyalties and ambitions become entangled in the dynastic struggle for the English throne.

Periods and events

Age of Explorationc. 1400–1600 CE Barbary Corsairs and Mediterranean Captivityc. 1450–1830 CE Battle of Tewkesbury1471 CE Early Colonial America1607–1763 CE Readeption of Henry VI3 October 1470–11 April 1471 Stuart Period1603–1714 CE Wars of the Roses1455–1487 CE Yorkist England1461–1485 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by C. F. Dunn (2 series)

The Tarnished Crown in Order

by C. F. Dunn 4 books 4.4(1,493)

The Tarnished Crown follows Isobel Fenton, later Isobel Langton, and Robert Langton through the political reversals of Edward IV’s reign. Beginning with Warwick’s rebellion in 1469, the series places their struggle for Beaumoncote Manor, marriage and family security inside the conflicts that divide the Yorkist court and repeatedly…

The Secret of the Journal in Order

by C. F. Dunn 5 books 4.2(894)

The Secret of the Journal follows Cambridge historian Emma D’Eresby after her research into a seventeenth-century diary takes her to a university in Maine. There she meets the surgeon Matthew Lynes, whose apparent age and carefully guarded family history are incompatible with the evidence contained in the journal.…

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