I’ve been celebrating the release of The Way Back to Erin, my third novel in A Findlay Roads Story series, and I recently shared some of my inspirations and challenges in the creation of the stories. While each has some difficult, true-to-life element at their core, The Way Back to Erin carried a lingering weight given all the grief shared by the two main characters, Burke and Erin.

I didn’t expect this third book to be quite as challenging, on an emotional level, as the first two in the seri...