The Sapphire Brooch by Katherine Logan (best novels to read to improve english .txt) 📕

and General Ulysses S. Grant considered her valuable enough to order personal protection for her when he entered Richmond. However, there is no indication that she ever met President Lincoln. After Grant was elected president, he nominated Elizabeth for the position of postmaster of Richmond, which Congress approved. The government paid her $5,000 for her service and several of the prisoners she had helped sent her money. Elizabeth died in 1900. The city condemned the mansion in 1911 and it was torn down the following year.

•    The assassination attempt on Secretary Seward was a bloodbath. Lewis Powell’s wild rampage left five people seriously injured, but he didn’t kill anyone. Braham’s role in the events of April 14, 1865, is entirely fictional. Although I was tempted to let him overpower Powell, I didn’t want to further alter the real story.

•    According to Carl Sandburg in Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years, Seward’s house did have a doorbell.

•    Braham and Cullen’s legal maneuverings are products of my imagination, although the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863 was an actual act of Congress. For those of you with legal backgrounds, or like me, love legal thrillers, I decided not to include objections to Braham’s witness badgering. He wouldn’t have gotten away with it in today’s courtroom, but in a trial where defendants had almost no legal rights, I gave him some leeway.

•    The tracking device David implanted in Charlotte’s hip is also a product of my imagination. Technology isn’t available for implanting a chip of that sort in a person.

•    Everybody needs an Aunt Mimi! I don’t have one, but I have a sister Mimi, and she has created genealogy notebooks for all her siblings. The complicated MacKlenna Family trees are available on my website.

•    As for time travel, altered memories, and the locations of the brooches at any given moment, I decided to let my muse take the story in a fun direction without worrying about time passing and snowballing effects.

•    Will David ever get his HEA? Yes, stayed tuned!

Special thanks to my fantastic early readers: Joan Childs, Shirl Deems, Virginia Simpson Geffros, Jessica Hartwigsen, Tamara Logan, Ken Muse, Nancy Qualls, Theresa Snyder, and John Wickre, Ph.D., and an extra special thanks to my editor, Faith Freewoman, Demon for Details Manuscript Editing, who did an amazing job with a very long manuscript.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Author Katherine Lowry Logan couples her psychology degree with lots of hands-on research when creating new settings and characters for her blockbuster Celtic Brooch series.

These cross-genre stories have elements of time travel, sci-fi, fantasy adventure, mystery, suspense, historical, and romance and focus on events in American history.

A few of her favorite research adventures include:

•    attending the Battle of Cedar Creek reenactment and visiting Civil War sites in Richmond, Virginia (Sapphire Brooch),

•    riding in a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, and visiting Bletchley Park and the beaches at Normandy (Emerald Brooch),

•    research in Paris, France, and Florence, Italy, with an art lesson in Florence (Pearl Brooch),

•    a tour of New York’s Yankee Stadium and several hours with their historian (Diamond Brooch),

•    wine tours in Napa (The Last MacKlenna),

•    and following the Oregon Trail for the first book in the series (Ruby Brooch).

Katherine is the mother of two daughters and grandmother of five—Charlotte, Lincoln, James Cullen, Henry, and Meredith. She is also a marathoner and lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with her fluffy Goldendoodle, Maddie the Marauder.

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THE CELTIC BROOCH SERIES

THE RUBY BROOCH (Book 1)

Kitherina MacKlenna and Cullen Montgomery’s love story

THE LAST MACKLENNA (Book 2 – not a time travel story)

Meredith Montgomery and Elliott Fraser’s love story

THE SAPPHIRE BROOCH (Book 3)

Charlotte Mallory and Braham McCabe’s love story

THE EMERALD BROOCH (Book 4)

Kenzie Wallis-Manning and David McBain’s love story

THE BROKEN BROOCH (Book 5 – not a time travel story)

JL O’Grady and Kevin Allen’s love story

THE THREE BROOCHES (Book 6)

A reunion with Kit and Cullen Montgomery

THE DIAMOND BROOCH (Book 7)

Jack Mallory and Amy Spalding’s love story

THE AMBER BROOCH (Book 8)

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