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Celtic Brooch Series — Book Two
A Contemporary Romance of Grief, Recovery, and the Love That Endures
Some loves are written in history.
Others are earned in the aftermath.
Two months after the events that shattered everything he thought he understood, Elliott Fraser is still standing.
He runs a world-renowned Kentucky Thoroughbred farm with precision and restraint, honors promises that cannot be broken, and carries a grief that refuses to be hurried or healed on anyone else’s timetable. He has survived loss before. What he has not learned is how to live inside the quiet that follows it.
He isn’t looking for love.
He’s barely learning how to breathe again.
Meredith Montgomery arrives in Elliott’s world carrying her own private reckoning. A Napa Valley winery owner and breast-cancer survivor, she has come to Scotland and Kentucky on a genealogical journey—one meant to connect her to the past, even as a medical fear she isn’t ready to name shadows her present. She understands endurance. She understands loss. And she recognizes something familiar in Elliott’s careful solitude.
What begins as guarded companionship deepens into something neither of them planned.
Their connection is not dramatic or reckless. It grows quietly—in shared silences, unspoken understanding, and the steady recognition that grief does not vanish simply because love appears. Healing has rules. So does survival. And second-chance love demands a courage neither of them is certain they still possess.
There is no time travel here.
No magic to undo the past.
Only two people choosing, day by day, whether the future is still worth building.
The Last MacKlenna is a contemporary romance that forms the emotional backbone of the Celtic Brooch series—introducing the partnership that will steady the MacKlenna clan for decades to come, and proving that even without crossing centuries, love can still require extraordinary bravery.
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