He’ll ask his father how he knew he loved her, and he’ll respond with a vague “I just knew.” And truthfully, he did just know. She was and always will be a delightfully magical enigma. And so, he tells his son, “She’s got a way about her.” (First of hopefully many in a one-shot series I’m doing!)

Maria’s rendezvous in the gazebo with the Captain went a little further than we saw. Six years in the future, Maria is no longer a postulant, but a single mother navigating Salzburg. Will she reunite her little family with the Captain and his children? My first published work!