Next up is a special edition we’re calling Gansett After Dark, which will feature Laura and Owen’s wedding along with some catch-up stories for each of our past couples as well as a few new ones. You’ll meet some other members of the extended McCarthy family as well as the Lawry siblings. I’m looking forward to writing that one!

Special thanks to team HTJB: Julie Cupp, Lisa Cafferty, Holly Sullivan, Isabel Sullivan and Nikki Colquhoun, as well as my faithful beta readers Ronlyn Howe, Kara Conrad and Anne Woodall. Thank you also to my editor, Linda Ingmanson, proofreader Joyce Lamb and cover designer extraordinaire Kristina Brinton. I so appreciate everything all of you do to help me produce my books! Thanks to Sarah Spate Morrison, Family Nurse Practitioner, who is always willing to answer a medical question. Dan, Emily and Jake put up with me when I’m writing, and Brandy and Louie keep me company and provide snuggles on demand.

My eternal gratitude goes to my amazing readers, who are so incredibly generous in their support of my books. You make my world go round, and I’m thankful for you every day. At the end of this book, watch for the very first sneak peek at All You Need Is Love, Green Mountain Series Book 1, out on February 4, 2014. Enjoy!

xoxo

Marie

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

The dream was always the same, the last perfect moment before life as Jenny Wilks knew it ended forever. She and her fiancé, Toby, in their cozy New York City apartment, enjoying breakfast, the morning paper, the news on TV, talking about everything and nothing. He’d asked about their dinner plans, and she’d reminded him her parents were coming the next day, so they needed to clean their apartment.

He’d groaned in protest, and she’d laughed at him, as she always did. She was a neat freak, and he was a certified slob. She loved him anyway, even when she had to pick up after him. Every time she had the dream, she tried to recall those final minutes, wanting desperately to know what they’d said to each other.

It was the one thing she couldn’t remember, and the one thing she needed to know.

Toby got up to leave for work in Lower Manhattan, leaning in to kiss her the way he did every morning. He looked gorgeous and successful in the suit that had been cut just for him, as he rubbed his freshly shaven cheek against hers. “I’ll—”