Wow, book 13, and it’s still so much fun to write the Gansett Island Series! It’s like a vacation for me to go back to Gansett! I can’t thank you enough for continuing to show up for every new book—even when I make you wait ten long months. I look forward to every minute I get to spend on my fictional island with people who feel like family after writing them for so many years. If you’d like to chat about Love After Dark with other readers, please join the Love After Dark Reader Group.

I plan to keep writing Gansett books as long as you keep telling me you love them. If you do love them, help other readers discover the series by leaving a review at the retailer of your choice and/or Goodreads. And make sure to tell your friends that book 1, Maid for Love, is FREE!

Slim and Erin will headline the next full-length book, but I have a surprise for you before then (see below). Make sure you don’t miss announcements about new books by joining my newsletter mailing list at marieforce.com (left side where it asks for your name and email address), subscribing to my blog and joining the McCarthy Reader Group.

I’m so blessed to work with a dedicated, fun group of women, including Julie Cupp, CMP, Lisa Cafferty, CPA, Holly Sullivan, Isabel Sullivan, Nikki Colquhoun, Cheryl Serra, Ashley Lopez and Courtney Lopes. Thank you all so much for everything you do for me every day. And thank you to my husband, Dan, who runs our lives so I can write as much as I do. Thank you to my amazing editorial team of Linda Ingmanson and Joyce Lamb, who make themselves available to me whenever I need them. Thank you, ladies! And a big thank-you to my beta readers Anne Woodall, Ronlyn Howe and Kara Conrad for always being willing to read for me when I need you! Special thanks to Sarah Spate Morrison, Family Nurse Practitioner, for keeping me straight on all things medical.

Julie’s friends (and now my friends, too) Ashley and Bryan Lopez were such great sports about modeling for the cover of Love After Dark. I can’t say enough about how much I love this cover that Ashley’s twin sister, Courtney Lopes, designed after the photo shoot done by my photographer friend, Pam Sardinha, assisted by her husband, David, and Julie. What a family affair, and the end result is gorgeous, just like the couple who posed for us! Thanks, guys!