Afterword
I wasn’t sure how to end this book. Romance wisdom seemed to dictate that there are two kinds of Happily Ever Afters: marriage and having children. If Book One ends with a marriage, then Book Two should end with a baby. It makes sense and also, who doesn’t love babies? More importantly, who doesn’t love reading about a romantic hero melting over his baby?
Part of me wanted to end it with a happy, healthy baby, but as someone who’s suffered through three miscarriages, I also resented the idea that Tyler and Poppy’s narrative would need to be “redeemed” with a healthy birth. I didn’t like that we so rarely have a place in romance for women who struggle with infertility, who may never have the Happily Ever After that our culture teaches us we need to have. Not to mention the women
