The Last Days of Autumn
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Autumn Landers, a beautiful, successful business owner, thought she had life figured out until one little word, cancer, changed everything. When Caroline Cross answers Autumn’s ad for a live-in caregiver, Autumn is instantly drawn to her. But Caroline has suffered her own losses and isn’t about to risk her heart. Autumn knows the odds are against her. But for the first time in her life she is going to do things her way. The first thing on her bucket list? Falling in love.
Autumn and Caroline question the fairness of life, the cruelty of loss, and what it means to love as they navigate the complicated minefield of relationships, grief, and life-altering illness.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This optimistic lesbian love story showcases the power of vulnerability and accepting the care of others. When Autumn Landers, a 45-year-old Tennessee landscaper, learns she has colon cancer and needs urgent surgery and chemotherapy, she takes a close friend's suggestion to hire a live-in caregiver in order to avoid depending on her narcissistic, overbearing mother for support. Caroline Cross, still reeling from the infidelity of her soon to be ex-wife, sees taking the job as a good way to restart, though she knows it will bring up feelings about her own mother's fatal fight with cancer. Autumn and Caroline build an intimate friendship easily, but adding romance to the mix requires bravery from them both. Though Autumn's illness is central to the story, Ford (Tennessee Whiskey) doesn't allow it to overpower, instead off-loading the conflict in the plot to the somewhat flat foils of Autumn's mother and Jane's ex. The love story is mellow and mature, with the slightly older heroines bringing refreshingly level heads to their relationship. Readers will be satisfied.
