The Ruby Brooch - Celtic Brooch 1
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
A grieving paramedic. A rugged Scotsman. A 2,000-mile journey across time.
She shouldn’t have survived the car crash that killed her parents. She shouldn’t have learned that her life was built on a lie. And she definitely shouldn’t have opened the ruby brooch. But she did.
When grief-stricken paramedic, artist, and equestrian Kit MacKlenna uncovers her father’s journal, she learns the impossible: She was abandoned as an infant on the Oregon Trail in 1852. The only clues to her past are a blood-stained lace shawl, a miniature portrait, and an ancient Celtic brooch with the power to carry her across time. Determined to finish her father’s decades-long search, Kit leaves her entire world behind and steps into the past.
The Oregon Trail is brutal, but it’s Cullen Montgomery who is truly dangerous. When Kit pulls a drowning boy from a raging river and performs a desperate, lifesaving resuscitation, she crosses a line she can’t uncross, especially with Cullen.
A sharp-witted Scotsman bound for San Francisco, Cullen is drawn to Kit from the moment they meet. Thrown together on a perilous, months-long wagon train journey, Kit refuses to walk away and face failure, and Cullen is determined to uncover what she’s hiding. As she sketches the sweeping pioneer scenery, her incredible artistic eye and uncanny medical skills only convince him further that she’s not what she claims to be. Suspicion turns to desire as the trail grows deadlier, and trust becomes a risk neither can afford to take.
Trapped by the unforgiving wilderness, the truth Kit has been chasing may cost her the very identity and legacy she crossed time to find, including the man she was never supposed to love.
The Ruby Brooch is a sweeping, fast-paced time-travel romance filled with high-stakes historical intrigue. It can be enjoyed as a complete standalone story.
Reviews
I must start out by saying that I rarely give five stars. I reserve them for books that I believe will stand the test of time, those that future generations will pick up and be enthralled by. I sincerely believe this is one of them. I'm a big fan of time travel in literature because I believe it expands the writers opportunities and the readers imagination. A well crafted time travel book stands the test of time if those in the future read a book such as this and have the same insight into our present day as we have for Independence, Missouri, in 1852, where much of this book takes place. Upon the death of her parents, Kit MacKlenna learns via a letter written to her by her father (given to her upon his death), that she was found on his doorstep wrapped in a bloody shawl, with a ruby brooch pinned to it. While in deep mourning, Kit learns that all she has been taught to believe, family mottos and traditions, don't truly belong to her. In the letter, Kit is provided with a few details and a date. For Kit, the only way to move forward is to investigate the past. Most of the time travel books that I have read require the traveler to leave all evidence of the future behind. Ms. Logan's version of time travel allows Kit to be a smart and well prepared individual. Kit brings with her all the things she thinks she could possibly need, but fit inside a travel size bag. There are some very entertaining passages as a result. Initially this book felt more paranormal in nature - with ghosts and altered states, but as I read on, I realized that Kit is not the only time traveler. I really enjoyed this component! A definite must read. (Oddly, until I wrote this review, I never considered Time travel to belong to the Paranormal genre. I'll have to look into this... in the future!)
