The Last MacKlenna (The Celtic Brooch)

A fiercely independent winemaker facing her darkest fear. A broken Scottish horse breeder hiding behind a charming smile. Two workaholics about to discover that healing is the ultimate risk.

Meredith Montgomery is the president of Montgomery Winery, the award-winning Napa Valley estate her time-traveling ancestors Kit and Cullen founded in 1853. As the winery prepares to celebrate its 160th anniversary, Meredith's world shatters when she discovers a lump in her breast, threatening a terrifying second battle with cancer. Desperate for a distraction while waiting for her holiday test results, she escapes to Edinburgh to finish the family genealogy project.

She has no idea that the man she is about to meet has been waiting for her. He just doesn't know it yet.

Across the ocean, Elliott Fraser is drowning in a grief he refuses to face. Devastated by the sudden loss of his closest friends and facing yet another painful surgery on a leg that never properly healed, the wealthy Thoroughbred breeder has spent years masking his misery with a womanizing reputation, pills, and alcohol.

When the two cross paths by a warm fire in a small Edinburgh bed-and-breakfast, the connection is immediate, unexpected, and completely inconvenient.

Both are stubborn workaholics accustomed to managing life entirely on their own terms. But as they seek solace in each other's company, tragedy strikes home when Elliott's prized breeding stallion is murdered, putting the future of his world-renowned farm in jeopardy.

Bound by mutual loss, hidden scars, and a fierce attraction, they must decide if they are strong enough to let someone close enough to matter, or if their separate battles will tear them apart before they can truly begin.

David McBain, retired Royal Scots Dragoon Guard and Victoria Cross recipient, makes his first appearance here. Readers of this series will tell you he is unforgettable.

The Last MacKlenna is the emotional backbone of the Celtic Brooch Series, the novel that builds the foundation the entire clan stands on. The time travel returns in Book 3.

This is a stand-alone book that continues the story of Kit MacKlenna's godfather, Elliott Fraser, who was introduced in THE RUBY BROOCH.

Meredith Montgomery, the first female president of her family's 160-year-old Napa, California winery, has her hands full with training for a marathon, problem employees, a nosy reporter, and launching a new wine when a health scare wiggles its ugly head again. She takes refuge in Scotland for a working holiday where she meets Thoroughbred breeder Elliott Fraser, CEO of MacKlenna Farm in Lexington, Kentucky. Elliott is on crutches, recovering from surgery on his leg. Although she tries to keep her distance and avoid distractions, the sexy Scotsman reels her in and hooks her with entertaining dinner invitations and a trip to his family's castle in the Highlands. After a blissful night together, a crisis on the farm pulls Elliott back to the Bluegrass. When Meredith accepts his invitation to stop for a visit on her return to California, the next domino falls in an explosive chain of events that could threaten not only their hearts but their lives. One careless moment confronts them with a life or death decision that could destroy the MacKlenna family legacy forever (Add to your cart now!)

Reviewer's Comments

The Last MacKlenna is a great romantic read. You can't help but ooh and ah at the wealth that surrounds strong leads Elliott and Meredith. Lowry Logan elegantly and purposefully gives her readers a great taste of Meredith's life as president of her family-owned vineyard and Elliott's in the high powered world of thoroughbred race horses. These two broken souls fall deeply in love and we root hard for them to overcome their many obstacles. And I would be remiss if I didn't add that this novel comes complete with a gripping mystery--one that will make your heart pound. Along for Meredith and Elliott's journey are a fine group of quirky, strong and loyal characters. The Last MacKlenna is first in Romance.

Reviewer's Comments

When I first approached Logan's work, I expected to be confronted by a star-trekky series of superficial, time-travel inventions that are ten a penny and simply don't appeal to me at all. How wrong I was. In reality, I found a writer of ingenuity, with a depth of understanding of the human condition and the ability to share it with the reader that far exceeded my expectations. Yes--I have to admit it; that exceeded my expectations of a modern woman and an American woman at that.

Her two novels to date, The Ruby Brooch and The Last MacKlenna, both of which I've read and hugely enjoyed, explore the lives of two women, Kit MacKlenna and Meredith Montgomery both of whom face worlds of adversity and come through them thanks to a mixture of such determination and, it has to be said, pig-headedness, that the reader is drawn into their lives and wants them to succeed.

Their men, Cullen Montgomery and Elliot Fraser, are developed with a deftness of touch that I once again consider exceptional in a female writer. I feel that Logan is a writer to be read, enjoyed and admired, and having found her voice in her work to date, may well produce a contemporary novel of lasting significance. I shall look forward to that.

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