Even if Iโd known I would lose Sunday McCormick Collins so early, I would have married that beautiful woman. What we shared is all Iโve ever wanted for my children and my grandchildren. Love isnโt about the happy ending. Itโs about the happiness found each and every day youโre together. โ Patrick โPopโ Collins
Padraig Collins loves his bartending job at Patโs Pub, the Baltimore hangout owned by his equally beloved family. Heโs young, carefree, filled with starry-eyed hopes and dreams for his futureโฆwhich 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 sheโll never get to experience, heโs forced to face some hard facts about the way heโs 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 decisionโPadraig will help Mia accomplish everything on her bucket list. He wonโt 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 isnโt measured in time. Itโs measured in momentsโฆ
This story will hopefully widen your definition of a traditional happy-ever-after. Not all of us get the luxury of a lifetimeโฆbut that doesnโt mean we canโt have a lifetimeโs worth of love in the time weโre given.
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