Stay Here (Stay Back! Trilogy)

Retired cop John Butterfield is about to propose to the love of his life when he suddenly finds himself identifying the body of his best friend, sitting vigil over his comatose ex-wife, and in temporary guardianship of the child he walked away from six years before – the child who was at the center of his marriage’s unravelling. Art therapist Annie Wells (a.k.a. Brenda Arnstein) survived the 9/11 attacks, and for the next three years, outlived a terminal cancer diagnosis. Just as she is beginning to soften to the idea of spending the rest of her life – however short it may be – with John, the cancer begins to invade new spaces.A shattering discovery forces John to come face-to-face with his past mistakes – the ones that still haunt him – and tests his relationship with Annie in ways he never thought possible.