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Midsummer Delivery: A Last Route Novel
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
• 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.
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
• 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.
252 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 14, 2026
1 person is currently reading
About the author
James Heppe-Smith
9 books1 followerJames was born in London, although he considers himself a Yorkshireman having spent most of his younger years there. After joining the Army, he found himself serving in Germany and other places around the world. He now lives in Cyprus (after the long detour through Germany), with his partner and two rescue dogs who have extremely strong opinions about walk times.
The Last Route is his debut series. It is currently outlined to be a twenty-book cozy fantasy saga about mail, magic and finding home in very unexpected places. There is found family, sapphic romance and, most importantly, a hedgehog named Thistle.
You can find him at https://heppesmithpublishing.com or on TikTok @thelastrouteseries
The Last Route is his debut series. It is currently outlined to be a twenty-book cozy fantasy saga about mail, magic and finding home in very unexpected places. There is found family, sapphic romance and, most importantly, a hedgehog named Thistle.
You can find him at https://heppesmithpublishing.com or on TikTok @thelastrouteseries
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March 3, 2026
I loved how this book stepped outside of the others and showed a different side of Wren being a courier. Focusing on the politics and the budget side of what could become of her route. Her passion really shines. And I’m so in love with her and Rowan. They work together so well.i loved ho this one incorporated the bonfire and dancing. It was a really nice change of pace.
March 20, 2026
I enjoyed the last route series of books by James Heppe-Smith. All of the books are well written, with wonderful world-building and wonderful MCs. I highly recommend this series.
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