Ivy Fairbanks pulls on readers ‘Heart Strings’ in her new second chance romance

When Ivy Fairbanks sat down to write Heart Strings, she wasn’t just plotting a romantic reunion. She was returning to a world she hadn’t expected to revisit. What began as a standalone novel with Morbidly Yours, a quirky love story set in Galway, quietly evolved into something bigger: an interconnected series built around friendship, timing, and the messy, beautiful ways people grow. The characters who once played supporting roles suddenly demanded stories of their own. Set against the backdrop of an Irish castle wedding, Heart Strings gave Ivy the chance to widen the emotional scope of the universe she’d created and explore how heartbreak shapes us, how ambition tests us, and how sometimes love shows up again just when you’ve stopped believing in it.