Nick dies peacefully, and Iano takes his father’s ashes to Phoenix, where his sisters live. Before he leaves, Willa and Tig take a spoonful of ashes to bury in the Vineland cemetery to fulfill their promise to Nick that he’d be buried there. Dusty has blossomed into a happy, healthy baby. Willa has begun a book proposal on Mary and Thatcher. Tig and her boyfriend, Jorge, from next door, have moved into the carriage house on the property net door and are going to fix it up, and Tig has offered her parents’ yard as a site for a vegetable garden for the school for the students with developmental disabilities.

Willa has a historical architect come to the house to try and give her a date that the house was constructed. Based on the bricks, the architect says that the current house was built in 1880, which is five years later than Thatcher lived in the house. This implies that Thatcher’s original house was torn down and that Willa is living in the house that replaced it. The architect says that the current house was built by the family that Rose befriends in the 19th-century storyline,

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