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Celtic Brooch Series — Book Nine
A Time-Travel Historical Romance of Ambition, Art, and the Cost of Believing You’re in Control
Some people believe time can be mastered.
Sophia Orsini is certain of it.
A celebrated twenty-first-century Italian artist, Sophia treats time travel as a privilege she’s earned. Each summer, she slips into the past for two carefully planned weeks, commissioning portraits from history’s greatest painters and adding another impossible achievement to her already glittering life. She knows the rules. She knows the risks. And she is convinced that confidence is the key to surviving any century.
This year, she chooses France.
When the pearl brooch meant to deliver her safely to 1786 malfunctions, Sophia is dropped into Paris on July 14, 1789—into the chaos of a city tearing itself apart as the Bastille falls. Barely escaping the violence, she collapses into the arms of Thomas Jefferson, America’s ambassador to France, a widower caught between diplomacy and revolution at the very moment history begins to burn.
What should have been a brief detour becomes a reckoning.
Paris is no longer a place to be admired from a distance. It is hungry, volatile, and unforgiving. As old hierarchies crumble and new dangers rise, Sophia is forced to confront a truth she has avoided for most of her life: intelligence is not immunity, talent is not protection, and certainty can be as dangerous as ignorance.
The future tempts her with impossible promises.
Power. Legacy. Immortality through art.
But every choice demands a price—and for the first time, Sophia must decide whether control is something she truly possesses, or merely something she has been allowed to believe.
The Pearl Brooch is a sweeping French Revolution time-travel romance where ambition collides with upheaval, art becomes witness instead of shield, and love is tested not by danger alone—but by the collapse of everything one woman thought she understood.
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