Midsummer Delivery

A Last Route Novel

By: James Heppe-Smith

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The best deliveries aren’t in the bag.

Nine months on the Last Route have transformed Wren Ashwick from bitter exile to capable courier. She knows every village, every path, every face along the way. She’s even started to think of it as home.

Then First Frost arrives.

The annual courier gathering brings reports, rankings, and scrutiny from Guild officials who see routes as numbers on a ledger. For Wren, it means defending the Last Route against budget-minded bureaucrats—and facing a rival courier who questions whether anything she’s built truly matters.

Wren has never been good at politics. She’s worse at speaking up when it counts.

When the gathering finally ends, she escapes to Mosshaven’s midsummer festival—bonfires crackling, music drifting across the meadow, fireflies rising as the sun slips away. And waiting there is Rowan, the hedge witch she’s been circling for months.

Dancing by firelight was promised.
What follows has been building since the very first cup of tea.

Together, Wren and Rowan step into a summer night that changes how Wren sees herself, her route, and the place she’s finally beginning to belong.

Some things are worth fighting for. Some people are worth dancing with.

Midsummer Delivery is Book 4 in The Last Route—a cozy fantasy of found family, gentle magic, Guild politics (the low-stakes kind), and a slow-burn sapphic romance that finally catches fire.

Perfect for fans of:
• Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
• The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
• A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
• Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

No cliffhanger. Warm ending guaranteed.