Thanks to Jim as always for everything, especially your support and comfort over the past few months while we both worked intensively to meet our own deadlines amongst the heartache and pain. I’m so proud of you and all your achievements in art and music, but most of all for how you have minded me in such difficult times.

I want to also give a special mention to my sisters, my brother and my dad who have also shown immense strength and courage lately. We are so lucky to have each other and will celebrate many good times ahead.

Huge, huge thanks to singer/songwriter Gareth Dunlop and Dianna Maher (Moraine Music Group, Nashville) for the amazing song, ‘You’. I can’t express how exciting it is to have an actual song attached to this story – it really is the pièce de résistance!

Finally, the biggest lesson I learned while writing Charlotte Taylor’s story was that we aren’t here for very long, tomorrow is never guaranteed and so there’s nothing like the power of ‘now’. We should never be afraid to take risks and make the changes we need to, to be the person we want to be.

I hope you agree.

Lots of love,

Emma x

About the Author

Emma Heatherington has penned more than thirty educational short films, plays and musicals as well as eleven novels, two of which were written under the pseudonym Emma Louise Jordan.

She was ghost-writer to Irish country music legend Philomena Begley and Liverpool born Nathan Carter, whose autobiography Born for the Road was nominated for an Irish Book Award.

Emma’s novel, The Legacy of Lucy Harte, was an eBook bestseller in both the UK and US.

She lives in her native Donaghmore, Co Tyrone, with her partner Jim McKee and their children Jordyn, Jade, Dualta, Adam and Sonny James.

@emmalou13

Also by Emma Heatherington

The Legacy of Lucy Harte

A Part of Me and You

A Miracle on Hope Street

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