Even if Iβd known I would lose Sunday McCormick Collins so early, I would have married that beautiful woman. What we shared is all Iβve ever wanted for my children and my grandchildren. Love isnβt about the happy ending. Itβs about the happiness found each and every day youβre together. β Patrick βPopβ Collins
Padraig Collins loves his bartending job at Patβs Pub, the Baltimore hangout owned by his equally beloved family. Heβs young, carefree, filled with starry-eyed hopes and dreams for his futureβ¦which are irrevocably thrown off course when patron Mia Curtis comes into the bar, visibly upset. When she leaves in tears, Padraig follows. He hopes to give the young woman comfort and assurance. What he gets in return is a massive dose of reality.
Mia has a ticking time bomb in her head, an inoperable tumor, with a diagnosis of only six months to live. As Padraig lets her cry on his shoulder, listens to her heartbreakingly detail the things sheβll never get to experience, heβs forced to face some hard facts about the way heβs lived his own life up to this point. Meandering through each day as if youth means immortality, and he has all the time in the world.
An evening of soul-searching leads to a life-changing decisionβPadraig will help Mia accomplish everything on her bucket list. He wonβt let her die with a single regret. But that goal transforms into something far deeper when Padraig falls in love with the courageous woman. His once endless future shrinks to months instead of years, accompanied by a crushing sense of desperation.
Until they realize life isnβt measured in time. Itβs measured in momentsβ¦
This story will hopefully widen your definition of a traditional happy-ever-after. Not all of us get the luxury of a lifetimeβ¦but that doesnβt mean we canβt have a lifetimeβs worth of love in the time weβre given.
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