About the Book
Celtic Brooch Series — Book Three
A Time-Travel Historical Romance of Duty, Consequence, and the Cost of Changing History
She thought history belonged safely in the past.
She was wrong.
Dr. Charlotte Mallory has spent years mastering the details of a life that was never truly hers. A trauma surgeon by training and a historical reenactor by passion, she has dedicated herself to honoring her Confederate ancestor, Major Carlton Mallory, portraying his medical service with precision and respect. History, she believes, should be studied, remembered—and left untouched.
Until it doesn’t stay that way.
During the 150th-anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Cedar Creek, Charlotte is ripped from the present and thrust into the final, brutal year of the Civil War. Captured by Union forces and hauled before General Philip Sheridan, she is offered an impossible bargain: use her medical skills to save a Union spy being held inside a Confederate hospital—or watch her family’s centuries-old Virginia plantation be destroyed.
To survive—and to protect everything her family has built—Charlotte agrees.
Her patient is Major Michael Abraham “Braham” McCabe: sharp-eyed, fiercely intelligent, and burdened by secrets that place him at the center of a war far larger than either of them fully understands. When nineteenth-century medicine proves inadequate, Charlotte faces a choice she can never undo. She brings him forward in time—saving his life, but tearing him free from the history that shaped him.
The future offers safety.
It also offers loss.
As Braham struggles to understand a world that no longer remembers his sacrifices, Charlotte must confront the reality of what she’s done. History is not a single, fixed record. It is lived by people who bleed, love, and remember. And when truths unravel and loyalties collide, Charlotte learns that changing the past doesn’t always announce itself with catastrophe.
Sometimes history records one version.
Those who lived it remember another.
The Sapphire Brooch is a sweeping time-travel romance set in the final year of the Civil War, where love and honor collide with impossible choices—and the price of altering history is never paid by only one heart.
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Chelsea Leach's Podcast on The Sapphire Brooch
Check out Chelsea’s podcast for a deep dive into parts one and two and her analysis of the two protagonists: Braham McCabe and Charlotte Mallory, along with their endearing traits and fatal flaws, key plot points of the first half of the book as well as the historical figures, places, and events that take center stage.
