The Amber Brooch - Celtic Brooch 8
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A mining lawyer trapped in a lawless Colorado boomtown. A cynical Pinkerton agent with a dangerous past. A high-altitude peril where logic defies history.
Amber Kelly, a sharp mining lawyer and amateur paleontologist, builds her life on logic and proven facts. But logic shatters when she finds an ancient amber brooch inside her family’s historic cabin and is hurled back to Leadville, Colorado, in 1878. Within minutes of arriving in the chaotic boomtown, Amber risks her life to pull a young boy from the path of an out-of-control freight wagon.
The boy’s father, Pinkerton agent Daniel Grant, survives by reading people quickly and trusting his instincts. Amber’s demeanor and total inability to explain her origins give him every reason to suspect she’s a fraud. Yet, as they are drawn together into a violent world shaped by ambition and ruthless competition, suspicion quickly sparks into an undeniable attraction.
Stranded in the past, Amber is swept into the lawless race to uncover the secrets of prehistoric life—the brutal paleontology conflict known as the Bone Wars. But the unforgiving mountain air holds a hidden, physical peril for Amber, and every step she takes risks altering the future while tying her more closely to a man whose life is bound to a century that isn’t hers.
In the present, Amber’s sister and friends piece together clues to launch a rescue mission. As danger closes in and the cost of every decision rises, Amber must decide whether she is willing to risk the future to protect the life she has found—and a Pinkerton agent she may not be able to leave behind.
The Amber Brooch is a sweeping Western time-travel romance where adventure, discovery, and the power of destiny collide. Each book can be enjoyed as a complete standalone story.
Reviews
It's impossible to pick my favorite of this series... I have favorite characters...David and Kenzie, Jack, Braham, the kids (all of them, but especially the twins)...and some of the most colorful ones are in The Amber Brooch. But I love them all, because Ms. Logan's heroes are so complex, masculine and delicious, and the heroines are smart, single-minded, intelligent and generally thoroughly interesting and admirable. In fact, she creates the absolutely perfect mate for her main characters more consistently than any other author I read. But, even better, the plots are just...irresistible. You don't just time travel, these books are time IMMERSION, because of the author's meticulous research and awesome ability to recreate places and times in a way that has you right there. You'll find yourself walking through crowds in the wild west, slogging through cold and wet in the dark, huddling in a dark corner while bombs fall on London, landing in the middle of a Civil War battle, or wining and dining on a sumptuous cruise at the beginning of the 1900s. You're THERE. Bet you can't read just one!
Katherine Lowry Logan does it again! The Amber Brooch, the 8th installment in her beloved Celtic Brooch series of Time Travel, has arrived. A tour de force for Logan as well as some of the characters, old and new, who go on stage at the Tabor Opera House in Leadville CO in 1878. Introducing Olivia and Amber Kelly, competent, intelligent, capable sisters who conquer any challenge they are presented to include the loves of their lives. Rick O’Grady is fresh back from Afghanistan and ready to take on the 1870’s Wild West that he loves from the pages of the westerns that got him through his tours of duty. Connor O’Grady is looking for the perfect Colorado Horse Ranch and finds the perfect woman at the same time. David and Kenzie help Rick locate missing Amber who found her family’s heirloom precious gem brooch and is whisked to the beginning of the paleontology “wars” in 1878 Colorado while Connor is left behind to console Amber’s frantic sister and hold off the impending investigation into her disappearance. Amber finds her “heaven on earth” in this new era with her passion for archeology and paleontology. There they encounter Pinkerton agents and Wild West gun slingers on both sides of a railroad war while Amber is eager to learn from the experts who are locating a plethora of dinosaur fossils. Daniel Grant, Pinkerton agent, and his son Noah find out exactly what it means to be a part of the Celtic Brooch Clan. Woven into the background is the trauma being inflicted on the Napa Valley and the Montgomery Winery by the wildfires of 2017. Meredith and team are struggling to save everything they can including the horses located at the winery. Elliott and JL are at the ranch in Kentucky eagerly awaiting the arrival of JL’s baby which kept her from being with Kevin in California. Logan’s depth of research and detail of every nuance of 1870’s Colorado sucked me in so much that I felt like I was walking beside the characters as they described mansions, costumes, businesses, and streets running with muck (and other things 😊). The dinosaur hunting was fascinating! Her descriptions of the flora and fauna of Colorado (my heaven on earth) were spot on and made me feel like I was there enjoying the view along with the characters. The details of the area of Leadville and Morrison make me want to visit for myself! Sit back, hold onto the reins and enjoy the ride through an era that is captivating, awe inspiring and very titillating.
