Katherine Lowry Logan Books in Order

If you want the core story from the beginning: The Ruby Brooch → The Sapphire Brooch → The Emerald Brooch
If you prefer contemporary romance with mystery: The Last MacKlenna → The Broken Brooch
If you like big historical set pieces: The Pearl Brooch → The Topaz Brooch → The Sunstone Brooch
If you want later ensemble adventures: The Bloodstone Brooch → The Moonstone Brooch → The Jasper Brooch

Katherine Lowry Logan grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. She later headed to college in New Jersey, where she studied psychology and minored in criminal justice, then added paralegal training in Philadelphia. After that she returned to central Kentucky and worked as a real estate and tax paralegal, a job that gave her a close look at how families, property, money, and pressure can all get tangled together.

That background makes sense when you read her fiction. Logan likes capable women, hidden histories, and people trying to solve hard problems while life keeps throwing new ones at them. Her books often mix romance with mystery, danger, and questions of identity, which fits a writer who spent years studying both human behavior and the fine print.

Time travel was the spark.

Logan has said she loved stories like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and she wanted to write her own big, emotional adventure that could slip between centuries. That idea eventually became The Ruby Brooch, the novel that introduced readers to Kit MacKlenna and opened the door to the Celtic Brooch world.

The road to publication was not quick. Logan finished a first draft in 1997, then put it away after her husband died by suicide just days later. Years passed before she could return to it. In 2008, after a long stretch of healing, she took the manuscript back out and started writing again. That history gives her work a grounded feeling around grief, resilience, and second chances.

She is also a hands-on researcher. For different books in the series, she has followed the Oregon Trail, visited Civil War sites and a Battle of Cedar Creek reenactment, explored Bletchley Park and the Normandy beaches, toured New York's Yankee Stadium with a historian, taken wine tours in Napa, and done research in Paris and Florence. You can see that legwork in The Sapphire Brooch, The Emerald Brooch, The Diamond Brooch, and The Pearl Brooch.

She's also a runner.

Running came later, but it became part of the rhythm of her writing life. Logan started running in 2011, ran her first marathon in 2012, and has talked about how writing and running feed the same kind of discipline, patience, and stubbornness. She once joked that buying running shoes was a better choice than sitting at her desk with a second glass of wine and a bag of chips.

Readers who click with Logan usually like big emotional stakes, family threads that keep stretching from one book to the next, and historical settings that feel lived in instead of decorative. Her stories move from the Oregon Trail to Civil War battlefields, World War II London, revolutionary Paris, 1814 New Orleans, the Dakota Badlands, Buffalo in 1901, and Chicago in the Jazz Age. Across books like The Last MacKlenna, The Moonstone Brooch, and The Ruby Brooch, she keeps returning to brave women, loyal families, and the strange pull of the past on the present.

Today Logan lives in Lexington, Kentucky and writes full time. She is the mother of two daughters, grandmother of five, and still very much a runner. Her household also includes a Goldendoodle named Maddie the Marauder, which feels like exactly the right last detail for a writer who likes grit, heart, and momentum.