The scent of crushed lavender and damp earth clings to Miriam Yoder. The gentle Amish herbalist buys a silver brooch at a local auction, never expecting it to change her life. One minute she's in her quiet Pennsylvania garden. The next, she wakes up in the bloody grass of a Highland battlefield.

Alone and terrified, Miriam follows her instincts. She saves the life of a wounded warrior named Laird Callum MacLeod. The fierce Scottish chief is struck by her quiet bravery. He vows to keep her safe. But his world is full of rival clans and sudden raids. Miriam's peaceful faith hits a wall of medieval violence.

The ancient brooch begins to glow again. It's a sign that time might pull them apart. Callum starts to show a side of himself he usually hides. A deep pull grows between the modern healer and the rugged laird. Miriam is torn. She can go back to her safe life or stay with a man who feels like home.

True safety isn't found in stone walls. It's in a bond that crosses centuries. She has to decide where she truly belongs.

Will she return to her own time or stay with the man who claimed her?

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Discover the passion, danger, and destiny woven through every story in The Tìr-Chridhe Brooch series.

The brooch surfaces without warning. Cold metal, old as legend. The ancient Tìr-Chridhe Brooch stirs and a passage opens between the modern world and the rough Scottish Highlands of another century. Amish women who once lived quiet, faithful lives step through and face fierce warriors, clan grudges, and desire that feels far too dangerous. Wind combs the heather. Peat smoke hangs low. Here survival takes nerve, and love runs hotter than any rule they knew. Each woman must choose where her heart will stay. Some go back home, changed in ways words can't hold. Others walk beside their Highland warriors forward.