It especially helps in the case where you might not care for one character since you get to spend ‘more time’ with multiple characters. This book is told in multiple first-person format, which I like since it gives the reader insight on more than one character in the story. And as her symptoms worsen, Claire will have to make an impossible decision: Save her own life, or save her child’s? Since any treatment could put their unborn baby’s life at risk, the Turners must carefully weigh their limited options. But when she begins to experience debilitating headaches, blurred vision, and even fainting spells, the soon-to-be mother goes to the doctor and receives a terrifying diagnosis. For the first few months of her pregnancy, Claire and Josh are living on cloud nine. Yet once they give up hope, the couple gets the miracle they’ve been waiting for.

After six years of trying to conceive, she and her husband, Josh, have finally accepted that she will never be pregnant with a child of their own.

Especially when Claire would complain about the simplest, mundane things.Īll children’s book illustrator Claire Turner ever wanted was to be a mother. Not that I wanted anything bad to happen to them, just that EVERYTHING was so perfect that it made me want to roll my eyes. The two main characters are sweet and loving, and so is their town and all of their friends and family. But if he had to, if it meant Claire's life or their baby? There was no choice, not for him. He prayed he didn't have to make that choice that he could have the best of both worlds. Do you understand? I don't care what that looks like, but she cannot die.' He was over the moon to be a father, to know that their dream of being parents was finally coming true, but he loves his wife more. Claire.' his throat thickened, and it was hard to get the words out. The memory of his mother, the way she wasted away, of what her life was like those last few months hit him hard.

Steena holmes the patient