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You'll laugh, cry, and grip the edge of your seat in this ruby among garnets.

Heiress to the MacKlenna fortune, equestrian and paramedic, Kit MacKlenna, risks everything to discover her true identity. Was she really born in the 1800s?

As the sole survivor of the car crash that killed her parents, grief-stricken paramedic Kit MacKlenna is stunned to learn her life is built on lies. A legacy from her father includes a faded letter and a well-worn journal. The journal reveals she was abandoned as a baby 160 years ago. The only clues to her identity are a blood-splattered shawl, a locket with the portrait of a 19th-century man, and a Celtic brooch with magical powers. Kit decides to continue her father’s twenty-five-year search for her identity, and solve her birth parents’ murders.

Scotsman Cullen Montgomery, a San Francisco-bound lawyer who resembles the ghost who has haunted Kit since childhood, helps her join a wagon train heading West. More dangerous than the river crossings, bad water, and disease encountered on the trail, is Cullen’s determination to expose her lies and uncover the source of her unusual knowledge and life-saving powers.

Kit is convinced if she can survive the perilous journey and Cullen’s accusations, as well as thwart his attempts to seduce her, she might solve the mystery of her heritage and return home without leaving her heart on the other side of time.

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As a child, I fell in love with history, then later as a young adult, I started reading historical fiction. A passion for history and a fascination with mysteries and time travel led to writing time travel romance.
One of my favorite writing experiences happened a few years ago during the Christmas holidays. I was working on the stampede scene in THE RUBY BROOCH and I needed gun information. So I went to a local store. My first visit ever! The store was crowded with holiday shoppers. I stood at the door not knowing what to do. The cashier asked if he could help me. I said, "I need a gun that will kill as many cows as possible in the shortest amount of time." The store went completely silent. The men stared at me. I had a lot of explaining to do. After they discovered I was a writer, everyone wanted to give me gun advice.

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From the white-plank fenced pastures of Lexington, Kentucky, to the Bay of San Francisco, The Ruby Brooch, a saga steeped in family tradition and mystery, follows a young woman's amazing journey as she tries to solve the murder of her birth parents 160 years in the past.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007QMSONK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Katherine Lowry Logan (December 13, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 13, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2539 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 388 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #9,267 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #11 in Time Travel Romance
- #19 in Literary Sagas
- #27 in Historical Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Author Katherine Lowry Logan couples her psychology degree with lots of hands-on research when creating new settings and characters for her blockbuster Celtic Brooch series.

These cross-genre stories have elements of time travel, sci-fi, fantasy adventure, mystery, suspense, historical, and romance and focus on events in American history.

Her favorite research adventures include:

• attending the Battle of Cedar Creek reenactment and visiting Civil War sites in Richmond, Virginia (Sapphire Brooch),

• riding in a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, and visiting Bletchley Park and the beaches at Normandy (Emerald Brooch),

• research in Paris, France, and Florence, Italy, with an art lesson in Florence (Pearl Brooch),

• a tour of New York’s Yankee Stadium and several hours with their historian (Diamond Brooch),

• wine tours in Napa (The Last MacKlenna),

• and following the Oregon Trail for the first book in the series (Ruby Brooch).

Katherine is the mother of two daughters and grandmother of five—Charlotte, Lincoln, James Cullen, Henry, and Meredith. She is also a marathoner and lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with her fluffy Goldendoodle, Maddie the Marauder.

Website: www.KatherineLLogan.com

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Mountain girl

It’s a solid “”10””!!!

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024

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Wow, what a powerful book, rich in detail and lore, with a stunning plot that definitely kept me on my toes to keep up with. I must admit that I had to dig back more than once to keep time lines or characters straight in my mind because the plot is quite complex,,,,like a wonderful wooden puzzle that demands your attention. This book, like a good movie, has multiple layers that one will enjoy revisiting again to catch nuisances missed in the first encounter. I’m off to find book 2 with a delightful anticipation to continue this journey……thank you for sharing your brilliant mind Katherine.

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2024

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What a wild ride. I enjoyed this read and can’t wait to see what magic the next book contains. This book can be read as a standalone, but there is still some mystery left behind for the next MC’s.

Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2024

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This story was difficult to put down. The characters are so well developed and inspiring. I could almost picture myself there on the wagon train. Can’t wait to read the next book in the series.

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2024

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Wow! What a great story. Love time travel books, and I can't wait to read the next in the series.

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Dixie Goode

My heart recognized this story

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2014

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I can't remember where I first heard of this book, but I found it on my own Amazon page wish list and had obviously thought about it at one of those times when even a kindle book was outside my price range. But I got an Amazon gift card as a birthday present recently, and right before I went to buy a copy of Two Loves Found, a sequel to a book I had just read by Sandy Graham - I found a copy of that book arriving in my mailbox as an unexpected gift. So anyway, I actually had book $$ and nothing in mind to spend it on, and found that I had saved The Ruby Brooch to my wish list - So on a whim, I ordered it. I didn't even check to see what it was about, trusting my own taste even though I could obviously no longer trust my memory.

I have never been more grateful that I had waited to get a book. Yes, I enjoyed it a lot, and yes it was a blend of many of my favorite things, but it really was way too close to my own middle grade novel, Double Time On The Oregon Trail, for me to have been comfortable having to say I had read it before I wrote my own. In fact, I'm pretty sure I never could have written my book if I had read this first, how would I ever have know for sure that my ideas were not lifted from this story?

So what we have here is a young woman, in 2012 who has recently lost her family in a horrible way, and then finds a letter telling her, that they are not her birth family, but that she was a baby, found on a doorstep, wrapped in a bloody, monogrammed shawl with a ruby brooch that, by the way, transports people and things through time. When she learns this, she understands why her Dad has raised her with a ton of outdoor skills, and taken her on Oregon trail reenactments. She makes her plans to find out who she is, and uses the brooch to place herself at the start of the Oregon Trail in 1852.

I love time travel and the Oregon Trail, which is why I had a girl from 2002 communicating with a girl from 1850 in my novel - and traveling the highways that retrace the trail now it is always fun to compare my swimming pools and air conditioning to their dust and drought and campfires but Ms. Logan has so many different comparisons to think about that I was immediately hooked into her novel and couldn't put it down. It was also interesting to see that even in the ten years between my modern 2002 and her 2012, there were changes such as my girl had a phone card, but her woman had a iPod, mine had printed pictures but hers had a digital camera. I did have to wonder about one thing, I get that she could use a solar charger and charge the iPod, and show saved information on it back in 1852, but I'm wondering how they managed to get hooked in to see you-tube videos?

I'm not usually one to read romances, but her novel also had a few wonderful characters who felt real, and when I realized that her next book has one of them involved in a romance, non time travel, I still had enough of a balance on my card that I bought this sequel as well. I really wanted to know that this person was ok after seeing where The Ruby Brooch left him at the end. I guess caring about the characters so much means that yes, I am recommending this book

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Imaginative storyline, possessive apostrophe mayhem

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2015

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I enjoyed the premise of The Ruby Brooch (Time Travel Romance)--it's both imaginative and inventive--but the mechanics of Logan's writing leave something to be desired. The overall writing was awkward, and her vocabulary was simplistic and littered with too many poorly crafted similes.

The basic idea of the book was interesting, but it needs serious revision. The time travel aspect was too over the top and not believable.The characters are flat romance stereotypes. Not enough accurate historical detail. And the iPhone, iPod time travel thing was too weird and contrived for words. Suspension of disbelief, much? The end of the book drags on as well.

Logan's use of possessive noun/genitive is unnecessary in at least 90% of her sentences. I've noticed that this seems to be a trend in Kindle books in general. Is it software that's prompting all these weird sentence structures, or merely a lack of writing skill? Fergawdsakes, Dear Author, in future stories, please don't use another possessive noun apostrophe (-'s) in a sentence unless you have to.

Not only is the unnecessary punctuation awkward, it literally breaks the narrative flow. Makes me stop dead every time and rephrase the sentence. The reader shouldn't have to revise the writer's sentences in her head. Reading requires a suspension of disbelief, and if the reader is thrown out of the story because of ambiguous phrases and uneven punctuation, it's hard to overcome the limitations. Cardinal rule: Take care of the reader.

Logan wrote: on a chair's spindly rear legs
Suggest: on the spindly rear legs of the chair

Logan wrote: Reading the paper's recitation was unnecessary.
Suggest:Reading the recitation in the paper was unnecessary.

One may assume I'm being overly nit-picky, or a cranky reader (I am) but these errors listed above are ALL on page 1.

Logan wrote: escorted the bride's widowed aunt
Now, this one is necessary.

Cullen walked in his grandsire's shoes.
ditto

the line above the marketing manager's manicured nail.
ditto

I was the farm's mistress.
shaky, but passable.

Logan wrote: She climbed up on the wagon's bench seat
Logan wrote: she wore her pencils' graphite tips to nubs.
Logan wrote: in the busy dining room's front corner
really? AWK!
Suggest: in the front corner of the busy dining room

Logan wrote: As a little girl, Kit's father's toolbox, full of wooden...
Augh!

The author's attempt to support two possessive nouns in a row has created an odd sentence. Better to use two sentences.
OR
When Kit was little, she was fascinated by her father's toolbox full of wooden handles worn smooth and shaped to his grip.

Hopefully these random examples illustrate my point--there are many more, especially toward the end of the book.

Misplaced punctuation I can handle--sometimes. But if it requires a reread to grasp the meaning, then it needs to be fixed.

"...with a famous poet, he knew (comma) Grace McCoy..." Ya need the comma.

It's worth it to take one's writing to the next level. And with very little effort. At least Logan knows the difference between it is and its. I think I only spotted one inappropriate it's. I would've given The Ruby Brooch a 4-star rating but there's far too much clumsy writing for it to merit a higher score.

Note bene: while weeding out old email drafts, I found these notes for a review from 6/9/13, long before I began to write reviews for Amazon. I may rework it at some point. Or not.

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Jane A. Dupont

Historical fun

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024

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Well written. Good historical details bring the Oregon trail to life. Embrace a little magic and go along for the ride!

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Rankinkk

Perfect

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2024

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Can’t wait to start the next book! The storyline, the characters, are all just perfect. It swept me away to another time, and had a plot that I couldn’t put down.

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M Brothers

Loved it!

Reviewed in Canada on February 16, 2022

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Excellent book. Love this writer's thorough descriptions, twists and turns. Will continue to read the series as well as more from this author

Kindle Customer

A page turner that you cannot put down if you like time travel romance

Reviewed in France on August 24, 2023

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This is one of the best time travel romances I have ever read and I remembered having read it long ago in French, but I could read it again in English with the same pleasure as before.

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5 ***** stars

Reviewed in Germany on March 14, 2022

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Fantastic & Brilliant written book about time travel back to the time of the American civil war.
Well written with details and with affectionate romantic moments.
I enjoyed the book from the first to the last page that kept me reading! Did not want to STOP *

Jules B

Perfect historical drama/romance

Reviewed in Australia on January 20, 2018

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I stumbled upon this book a few years ago and smashed through the series. I recently was challenged to reread a favourite book and i chose this. I found i still loved Kit's story as much as the first read. It was also still the same struggle to put it down, that i experienced the first time.
Being from Australia, you don't tend to know a lot about American history and this book gave me a small insight.
I love Kit and she is the ideal strong female lead, whether it is the 21st or 18th century.
This book is a great read and can't recommend it enough. Now on to the rest of the series (again!)

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Isi

Aventuras, viajes en el tiempo y romance; una combinación que me ha gustado

Reviewed in Spain on August 26, 2013

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The Ruby Brooch comienza con la muerte de los padres de Kitherina MacKlenna, una veinteañera de Kentucky, que gracias a su padrino descubre que en realidad fue abandonada en el porche de la mansión MacKlenna cuando era un bebé, y adoptada por los que ella creía que eran sus padres. Pese a sus esfuerzos, ellos no pudieron encontrar apenas pistas de sus padres biológicos más que las que dejaron en el capazo: una mantita con una M bordada y un broche de rubí que permite viajar en el tiempo.

Después de leer una carta póstuma de su padre y su diario, Kit decide utilizar el broche para encontrar a sus verdaderos padres… en el siglo XIX. Y allí debe viajar en una caravana de carretas desde el este al oeste de Estados Unidos para llegar al lugar donde ella cree que se perdió la pista de sus posibles padres.

Pero esta es una historia romántica, y es que durante el viaje conocerá a Cullen, un abogado escocés que dirige las caravanas, ya que lo ha realizado anteriormente, y que se dirige también a San Francisco para casarse con su prometida… solo que cuando conoce a Kit, se piensa mejor lo de la boda.

La historia se centra en este viaje de Kit, que está a cargo de una familia estupenda de los que ya sabía algo antes de viajar al siglo XIX, y tendremos varios episodios en los que Kit se pondrá en evidencia delante de todo el mundo, tanto por su comportamiento de mujer del siglo XXI como por los utensilios que ha llevado consigo y los conocimientos médicos que posee. También va evolucionando la relación entre Kit y Cullen (algunas veces Kit es un poco desesperante) hasta que finalmente ella tiene que confesarle de dónde viene y por qué está allí… La chica tenía en mente encontrar lo que necesitaba sobre sus orígenes y volver a su época, pero ahora que está enamorada del escocés, duda si volver o no.

La única dificultad que he encontrado ha sido que los primeros capítulos son algo complicados por el nivel de inglés, lo que sumado a que la autora no nos da toda la información desde el principio, sino que la va dosificando a lo largo del libro, hace que el lector no angloparlante esté más perdido que un elefante en una cacharrería y se desespere un poco al principio del libro, para leer tranquila y fluidamente más adelante.

Por lo demás, ha sido una historia muy entretenida; para ser totalmente sincera, era exactamente lo que me esperaba y creo que por eso lo he disfrutado. Me ha gustado mucho cómo se desarrolla la historia de amor y el tema de los viajes en el tiempo, sobre todo por lo que sucede casi al final, cuando Kit tiene que volver a casa. Además, a pesar de que sabemos que existen un broche de zafiro y otro de esmeralda y que, por lo tanto, habrá dos libros más, estad tranquilos porque es auto-conclusivo. Así que si os apetece leer algo fantasioso (Kit se lleva al pasado hasta la cámara de fotos digital) y romántico, esta es una de las mejores opciones.

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You'll laugh, cry, and grip the edge of your seat in this ruby among garnets.

Heiress to the MacKlenna fortune, equestrian and paramedic, Kit MacKlenna, risks everything to discover her true identity. Was she really born in the 1800s?

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