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See the Celtic Brooch series by Katherine Lowry Logan in order, with quick summaries, series background, and practical advice on the best place to start.

Last updated: July 6, 2026

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Celtic Brooch books in publication order

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14 books

1

The Ruby Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2012

After her parents die, Kit MacKlenna learns her life may be built on a lie and that the truth leads back to the Oregon Trail. With a magical brooch and a skeptical Scots lawyer, she risks everything to uncover her past.

2

The Last MacKlenna

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2013

Napa winery owner Meredith Montgomery travels to Scotland for family research and finds an unexpected connection with horseman Elliott Fraser. Their holiday spark follows them to Kentucky, where illness, sabotage, and murder threaten both their futures.

3

The Sapphire Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2014

Reenactor and doctor Charlotte Mallory is swept from a Civil War event into the real Battle of Cedar Creek. A mission to save a wounded Union spy pulls her deeper into history, and into a bond that could reshape more than one future.

4

The Emerald Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2015

Retired Army Captain Kenzie Wallis-Manning receives an emerald brooch while studying in England and is thrown into May 1944. As David McBain races after her, the road to D-Day becomes a high-stakes test of love, duty, and history.

5

The Broken Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2016

NYPD detective JL O’Grady expects a relaxing Napa weekend, not a murder case that echoes the investigation that nearly ended her career. With Kevin Allen at her side, she digs into secrets that could put her, her brother, and the clan at risk.

6

The Three Brooches

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2016

A message hidden in a 135-year-old painting sends Elliott Fraser and the extended family on a daring experiment with the three brooches. What follows is a large-scale trip to 1881, where rescuing Kit may change everyone involved.

7

The Diamond Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2017

ESPN baseball analyst Amy Spalding is hurled into 1909 New York City with only her wits and her encyclopedic knowledge of the game. While Jack Mallory and others search for her, Amy must survive a city that feels familiar and utterly foreign.

8

The Amber Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2018

Mining lawyer and amateur paleontologist Amber Kelly finds an old brooch in her family's Colorado cabin and wakes up in boomtown Leadville in 1878. After saving a Pinkerton agent's son, she is swept into railroad violence, frontier danger, and unexpected romance.

9

The Pearl Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2019

Sophia Orsini thinks she understands brooch magic until it drops her into Paris on the day the Bastille falls. Surrounded by revolution, art, and shifting loyalties, she must survive history long enough for the people who love her to find a way back.

10

The Topaz Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2019

In New Orleans, former Army Ranger Billie Malone buys a topaz brooch at an estate sale and lands in Barataria in 1814. Pirates, war, and the Battle of New Orleans pull her into one of the series' most dangerous adventures.

11

The Sunstone Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2021

Ensley Williams opens her late mother's sunstone brooch and is thrown into the Dakota Badlands of 1885. When James Cullen Fraser follows, a rescue mission turns into a brutal fight for survival, and the whole clan may pay the price.

12

The Bloodstone Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2022

When archaeologist Aislinn Kennedy vanishes from a museum in Rome, former Navy SEAL Tavis Stuart learns a bloodstone brooch sent her to 1896 New York. Finding her means facing buried feelings, dangerous clues, and an enemy with plans of its own.

13

The Moonstone Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2024

Investigative journalist Clay MacIntyre touches a moonstone brooch and lands at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. As President McKinley's shooting shakes the city, Clay uncovers clues that threaten his sense of family, history, and self.

14

The Jasper Brooch

by Katherine Lowry Logan

2025

Before a New Orleans jazz performance, a brooch sends Marcelle into 1928 Chicago after she witnesses a mob killing. Remy Benoit and Clay MacIntyre race into a world of speakeasies, music, and dangerous attention from Al Capone.

Celtic Brooch books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "The Ruby Brooch"

    The Ruby Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2012Celtic Brooch, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "The Last MacKlenna"

    The Last MacKlenna

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2013Celtic Brooch, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "The Sapphire Brooch"

    The Sapphire Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2014Celtic Brooch, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "The Emerald Brooch"

    The Emerald Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2015Celtic Brooch, Book 4
  5. Book cover for "The Broken Brooch"

    The Broken Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2016Celtic Brooch, Book 5
  6. Book cover for "The Three Brooches"

    The Three Brooches

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2016Celtic Brooch, Book 6
  7. Book cover for "The Diamond Brooch"

    The Diamond Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2017Celtic Brooch, Book 7
  8. Book cover for "The Amber Brooch"

    The Amber Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2018Celtic Brooch, Book 8
  9. Book cover for "The Pearl Brooch"

    The Pearl Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2019Celtic Brooch, Book 9
  10. Book cover for "The Topaz Brooch"

    The Topaz Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2019Celtic Brooch, Book 10
  11. Book cover for "The Sunstone Brooch"

    The Sunstone Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2021Celtic Brooch, Book 11
  12. Book cover for "The Bloodstone Brooch"

    The Bloodstone Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2022Celtic Brooch, Book 12
  13. Book cover for "The Moonstone Brooch"

    The Moonstone Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2024Celtic Brooch, Book 13
  14. Book cover for "The Jasper Brooch"

    The Jasper Brooch

    by Katherine Lowry Logan

    2025Celtic Brooch, Book 14

Series background & context

The Celtic Brooch books are built around a simple, irresistible hook: an old brooch, a few Gaelic words, a rush of fog, and suddenly someone is in the wrong century. The series begins with The Ruby Brooch, where Kit MacKlenna learns her past may reach back to the Oregon Trail, and it widens from there into a long, connected saga of family secrets, love stories, rescue missions, and very bad timing in dangerous places.

This is very much a family story.

Even when a later book shifts to a new couple, the same circle of relatives and friends keeps showing up, helping with rescues, arguing over risks, and carrying the emotional fallout from one adventure into the next. The MacKlenna, Montgomery, Fraser, Mallory, and O’Grady connections matter a lot. Some entries, like The Last MacKlenna and The Broken Brooch, stay in the present and lean harder into romance, suspense, or murder investigation, but they still deepen the larger web of relationships.

The historical settings do a lot of the work, and they are not there just for decoration. One book may drop readers onto the Oregon Trail, another into the Civil War, another into the week before D-Day, and another into revolutionary Paris or the Battle of New Orleans. Later books head to Colorado mining country, the Dakota Badlands, Buffalo's 1901 Pan-American Exposition, and Prohibition-era Chicago. Each place brings its own pressures, from war and disease to political chaos, rough travel, and the real danger of being stranded far from home.

The tone shifts a little from book to book, which is part of the appeal. Some installments are full-on time-travel adventure, while others feel closer to romantic suspense or contemporary family drama. Logan tends to center practical people who have useful skills, doctors, soldiers, investigators, riders, artists, reporters, and then drops them into situations where those skills matter. Even when the cast gets large, the books stay focused on people who are wounded, stubborn, and easy to root for.

The stakes keep getting bigger.

What starts as one woman's search for identity turns into a series about protecting an extended clan, keeping the brooches out of the wrong hands, and deciding when history should be left alone. Rescue missions become common. So do hard tradeoffs, because getting one person home can put someone else in danger, and love is never the only thing on the line. It's best read in order if you want the full effect, since the real fun of Celtic Brooch is seeing how one trip through time echoes into the next.

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