Spring Forward

A Last Route Novel

By: James Heppe-Smith

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Some lights are worth keeping lit.

Spring should be easier.
The blizzards are over. The roads are clear. Wren Ashwick has finally started to believe she belongs on the Last Route.

Then the floods come.

Unrelenting rain turns cliff paths into death traps and trails into rivers—and at the end of an impassable coastal route, an elderly lighthouse keeper is gravely ill.
Elspeth has kept The Widow’s Light burning for forty years. Now she’s trapped alone with a fever she can’t outlast… and the sea is still hungry.

Wren has a choice: abandon her route, or try the impossible.

For the first time in her life, she doesn’t try to do it alone.
She sends for Rowan—the hedge witch with warm eyes, steady hands, and a way of seeing straight through every wall Wren builds.

Together, they fight to save a life, keep the lighthouse burning, and discover that partnership isn’t weakness—it’s magic.

Some storms change the route. Some people change everything.

Spring Forward is Book 3 in The Last Route—a cozy fantasy of found family, gentle magic, and slow-burn sapphic romance (with a silver-quilled hedgehog who always seems to know the way).

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

No cliffhanger. Warm ending guaranteed.