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Celtic Brooch Series — Book Six
A Time-Travel Romance of Family, Reckoning, and the Price of Knowing Too Much
Some messages are meant to be found.
Others are meant to wait.
For more than a century, a self-portrait of Kit MacKlenna Montgomery has hung quietly in the welcome center of Montgomery Winery—admired, overlooked, and never truly seen. Painted with deliberate care, it hides a message left for one man alone. When James Cullen Fraser finally deciphers its meaning, the truth it reveals is devastating: an innocent life has been lost to history, and the past is not finished asking for help.
The message comes too late to prevent what has already happened.
But not too late to answer it.
To test the truth behind the painting—and the legend of the Three Brooches—the entire MacKlenna Clan journeys back to 1881 San Francisco. What should be a single, urgent mission becomes an emotional reckoning as generations collide and long-buried resentments surface. Lives built apart strain under the weight of reunion, and the cost of time travel becomes brutally personal.
Medical crises threaten the most vulnerable among them. Old injuries resurface. Anger finally finds a voice. And when grief erupts in ways no one can contain, the family is forced to confront how deeply time has fractured the bonds they believed were unbreakable.
Amid the chaos, Jack Mallory and Braham McCabe pursue a Civil War mystery tied to lost Confederate gold—only to be left behind when the clan is forced to return home in crisis. Stranded in the past, Jack finds connection in the unlikeliest place. When violence tears it away, it shatters what little healing he has managed since his wrongful imprisonment and years of unspoken trauma.
Rescue comes at a cost. Jack returns changed, carrying a grief he cannot outrun. Seeking solace where memory cannot follow, he withdraws from the world entirely—leaving the clan to reckon with consequences no brooch can undo.
From this point forward, nothing is untouched.
Some losses cannot be repaired.
And the future will no longer wait patiently to be changed.
The Three Brooches is a sweeping ensemble time-travel romance that marks the irreversible turning point of the Celtic Brooch series—where family, love, and legacy collide, and the true cost of knowing the past is finally revealed.
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