A LETTER FROM KATY

Dear reader,

Thank you so much for reading my Summerhaven series! I hope you’ve loved the stories of Rory, Tierney, Ian, and their cousin Finian. I certainly loved writing them.

Now I’m betting that some of you are wishing for some sort of epilogue here—something that wraps up Fin and Tate’s story into a pretty bow and also manages to tell you that all of the Havens are doing well. I get that. I like that kind of closure too.

The thing is? I didn’t plan to write an epilogue for this book, because it would be fake to give you the marriage of Fin and Tate when they’re a long way from the altar. Are they crazy about each other? Yes. Are they going to end up together? Of course! But they still have a lot to figure out.

So instead of an epilogue, how about I give you a shorthand update on how everyone’s doing, huh? Would that work? Yes? Good?

Okay. Here goes.

Brittany gave birth to a daughter in May. She and Rory named her Kendall, and her godparents are Tierney and Ian, which makes Jenny her adoring godsister. Their business—opening high-end camps for corporate retreats all over the world under the Manion brand—has taken off, and Rory is now a man of considerable means, though his greatest fortune is his girls. He and Britt still live in her Boston apartment, though they are building a five-bedroom “cottage” on land adjacent to Summerhaven. They plan to spend every summer up on the lake, which means another generation of Havens, starting with Jenny and Kendall, will grow up there together.

Tierney was married to Burr in June in a traditional Irish wedding. It lasted a full weekend, with Jenny and Bridey dressed up as the cutest flower girls ever seen, while Britt and Hallie served as matrons of honor. Tate came up from Florida for the weekend and did a reading from the book of Corinthians. Burr’s sister, Suzanne, and her husband, Connor, are regular visitors at Summerhaven, and Burr has risen to the rank of sergeant at the local police department. Lately, Ian has noticed that Tierney always looks varying colors of green and carries saltines with her wherever she goes. But he figures she’ll share her news when she’s ready.

Speaking of Ian, like his brother, his greatest joy is also his girls: Hallie and Jenny…although that’s going to change—in a good way!—soon! He found out this August that Hallie is pregnant with twin boys, which should even out the male-female ratio among the Haven cousins no matter what Tierney has! Hallie is due in February, and Jenny can’t stop talking about being a big sister. Luckily, she’s got her cousin, Kendall, for practice. As for Hallie’s cottage? As a wedding gift, Brittany paid for it to be renovated on the sly, and it’s on its way to becoming a storybook four-bedroom cottage, perfect for a growing family.

As for our newest couple, Finian and Tate…after they spent most of April together in Ireland, Tate had to return to Florida. But she went back to Ireland for two weeks in June, two weeks in July, and another two weeks in August. When she returned to Florida in August, Uncle Pete announced that he had proposed to Miss Lucy. After their marriage, they planned to move closer to Lucy’s family in Puerto Rico, where they’d start a small charter business together.

This left Tate feeling a little left behind until Uncle Pete explained that he’d hired an immigration attorney to do some research for his niece. He’d learned that she needed $5 million in the bank to make an annual income of $50,000 off the interest; and $50K just happens to be the minimum amount per annum required for an American to “retire” to the Emerald Isle and live there indefinitely. With his gentle urging, Tate sold her boat for $8.5 million, banked the profit, and surprised an overjoyed Fin when she announced that she was moving to Dublin. Last I heard, Tate was investing in a brand-new garage owned by a top-notch young mechanic who had a fondness for American girls and DeLoreans. And if my information is correct, they just put a bid on a two-bedroom harbor-view house in Howth, where Tate moors her modest, fifteen-foot yacht. Sounds like they’re pretty happy.

Yes, friends, I’m delighted to report that my Havens are doing A-OK.

And that—in the business of romance writing—is what we call a very happy ending.

Love,

Katy

xoxoxo