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marriage? She’d blown that once, with a man she’d thought she would marry, but it hadn’t worked out. No one had caught her eye since. She was still young, she told herself constantly—only twenty-seven—but the older women at church always reminded her that she wasn’t getting any younger. It worried her some.
    “What have you been up to, Sadie?” Susannah said, raising her face to the sun. “Could we have better weather?”
    She latched onto the topic of weather like a child might embrace a teddy bear. “The weather is amazing! Hardly any humidity at all, and only eighty degrees. It’s a blessing. How are your gardens coming along, Jake? Tammy told me they look real good.”
    Their sister-in-law was a marvel at creating gardens, which was how she’d connected with their brother, J.P. Of course, J.P. had hired his best friend’s sister to design his gardens because he’d taken a shine to her. His strategy had worked because Tammy had felt the same way. Even better to Sadie’s mind, Tammy’s two children, Rory and Annabelle, adored him.
    “The gardens look spectacular,” Jake told her, grinning. “My favorite time of day is at dusk when your sister and I take a walk. I might have to ask Tammy to plant a chocolate garden for the little ones we’re planning to have.” The McGuiness siblings all shared a soft spot for chocolate, and Tammy had planted a garden full of chocolate-scented and colored plants for J.P. The two of them had created a magical story about fairies living in the garden to help Tammy’s kids adjust after a traumatic experience.
    Her sister’s smile stretched wide across her face, and then she kissed her husband. Again. “I love it when you talk about kids.”
    Jake kissed her sweetly on the lips.  
    Sadie was over the moon that Jake’s PTSD from his Army days was improved, but all the kissing was making her want to either roll her eyes or blush. She decided to make her excuses and head inside to help out with the last of the preparations for Sunday dinner.
    “How are the newlyweds?” a familiar voice drawled from behind her. “We’re gonna have three in the house today. I’m expecting a plague of bunnies or something.”
    Sadie didn’t want to know what Rye meant by that, but she felt as jumpy as one of those bunnies, and she flinched a little when he snuck his hand around her waist and gave her a soft kiss on the top of her head.  
    “Hey, Sadie.”
    “Hello, Rye,” Sadie said and hugged his wife, Tory, who was a few steps behind him. “You’re looking more and more beautiful.”
    “I’m looking more and more pregnant,” Tory told her with a smile and pat to her enormous belly. “And I love it. This one,” she said, nodding to her husband, “practically pounds his chest like a caveman whenever he talks about this kid. I’ve never seen anyone so primal.”
    Rye snorted while everyone else laughed. “It’s why the women love me, honey. And why I look so good in tight jeans and nothing but a leather vest on stage.”
    Even though Rye was like a brother to her, Sadie had to agree with him. “No one stirs up a crowd of women quite like you do, Rye,” she said. Turning to her brother-in-law, she added, “And Jake here makes us all cry buckets with his beautiful music.” Of course, some of the songs Rye had written for his Yankee wife had made her tear up too. Come to think of it, there were plenty of things that made Sadie cry.  
    “I don’t look good in tight jeans,” Jake joked and extended his hand to his friend.  
    “Sure you do,” Susannah said, resting her head against his shoulder. “You look handsome in everything.”
    “Love birds,” Rye said to Sadie, sticking his thumb out and pointing it at the happy couple. “It’s good to see it, isn’t it? Speaking of love birds, who will bet me a hundred that my sister and her new husband are going to be a couple hours late to the party?”
    Tory punched him in the gut, and Rye tried not to laugh as