More Than One Lifetime

Small towns and doctors give Samantha Corwyn hives.

They're about to give her a whole lot more.

Sam was ten when a grief counselor helped her make peace with dying. It took years before she accepted that her mother had lied. Now she keeps a list of everything she wants to do before the end really comes, and a Do Not Resuscitate order on her wrist. When it's time, the ending will be hers.

Dr. Rick McCaffrey wears ridiculous ties and has spent his whole career being the man who listens—the one who fights for every heartbeat. He was sixteen when a specialist told his mother her breathlessness was nerves. It wasn't.

Sam comes to Endless Skies, Montana, for one sick little girl. Six-year-old Charlie Tate can't keep her supper down, can't stop losing weight, and has a mother the whole town calls a saint.

Sam knows that look. She wore it herself once.

And when she finally says so out loud, the man who built his life on listening tells her she's wrong. She isn't certain — she says so, more than once. All she asks is that somebody run one test.

The town lines up behind him.

But eventually Endless Skies claims her anyway. A porch swing. Treats for her dog. More casseroles and pies than one woman can eat. A doctor who keeps turning up with exactly the right thing—and the terrifying discovery that she finally has something to lose.

She came for one little girl. Nobody warned her she might want to stay.

A standalone small-town medical romance with women's fiction depth.