About ASHES TO INK
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Carrie Ann Ryan comes a new story in her Montgomery Ink series…
Back in Denver, Abby lost everything she ever loved, except for her daughter, the one memory she has left of the man she loved and lost. Now, she’s moved next to the Montgomerys in Colorado Springs, leaving her past behind to start her new life.
One step at a time.
Ryan is the newest tattoo artist at Montgomery Ink Too and knows the others are curious about his secrets. But he’s not ready to tell them. Not yet. That is…until he meets Abby.
Abby and Ryan thought they had their own paths, ones that had nothing to do with one another.
Then…they took a chance.
On each other.
One night at a time.
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She was a tiny
little speck in the idea of tea and how it could serve the needs of the people,
but she was the best speck she could possibly be.
She’d had to be
after everything changed.
She’d had to be
when she lost everything.
Well, not everything.
She still had her little girl. Abby grinned down at her phone and swiped up so
she could look at the photo on the home screen.
Julia was growing
every day and even looked slightly different now than she had in the picture.
Abby still couldn’t quite believe that she and Max had made this beautiful baby
girl. Max might not be around to help raise Julia, but he had been there for
the conception and had been there to pick out everything the two of them as new
parents would need to raise their child together.
It didn’t hurt as
much as it once had to think about Max. Oh, it would always hurt, but at least
it didn’t make Abby want to throw up and grieve right then.
She could think
about her husband and smile now. She could think about the fact that he had
loved her with all of his heart, even if that had been the thing to take him
away from her in the end.
And she couldn’t
say her feelings didn’t matter now though, because that would be a disgrace to
his memory and the fact that she could see Max in her little girl every single
day.
Julia would never
know her father, but Abby was doing her best to make sure that Julia knew
exactly who Max was, and how excited he had been to have Julia in his life.
The two had never
met, but Abby knew Max was always watching over them.
There was no other
way to think about it. Not when Abby needed to get up every day and breathe—try
to be the mom and woman she needed to be.
But today was a
new day, just like all the others. Today, she would make some tea, sell some
tea, and maybe even have a cookie or two. Because it was Friday, and she was
allowed to have a cookie if she wanted.
She just might
have a little extra padding on her hips, but that was fine with her. It wasn’t
like she was trying to entice a man.
Oh,
she’d dated a couple of times in the past year or so, but it hadn’t really
amounted to much. She hadn’t been ready, and she didn’t know if she was ready
now either.
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