Promise Me

Promise Me - Richard Paul Evans

I sat down to start this book this morning -- and couldn't put it down.  It's a warm loving tale of a woman who finds out her husband cheated but cares for him during his terminal cancer.  Her daughter is ill with a celiac autoimmune disease and doesn't know it yet.  But that's just the basics before the real story begins. After much heartache and the usual problems facing a single mother, Beth meets a very handsome man named Matthew.  She's leery about dating, but he's very patiently persistent.  After a couple of dates, they're very much in love.  And he seems to know things about her that she's never told him. 

When her house mortgage falls into arrears, in a bit of desperation she takes a home improvement loan out to do some repairs in order to sell the house.  And Matthew takes off with her $60k loan.  She's furious, of course, and hunts him down, finding him in a gambling hall.  After a screaming match, she leaves, telling him to never contact her again only to find him knocking on her door the next day, handing her a check for over $2M.  He tells her "we need to talk," and they do.

What he tells her are things that seem quite impossible, but apparently aren't.

If you only had 10 months to live before everything goes back to the way it was, what would you do?  Travel? Visit relatives or old friends? Experience everything you can?  That's exactly what they do. But in the end, they cannot stay together.  Beth asks Matthew to promise that he will never forget her.  He makes the promise, but isn't sure its within his means to do that.

If you need a quick read, something light and full of delight and smiles, this is a very good choice!
You won't be disappointed :)