Five Days Left

Summary:
Mara Nichols is a successful lawyer, devoted wife, and adoptive mother who has received a life-shattering diagnosis. Scott Coffman, a middle school teacher, has been fostering an eight-year-old boy while the boy’s mother serves a jail sentence. Scott and Mara both have five days left until they must say good-bye to the ones they love the most.

Through their stories, Julie Lawson Timmer explores the individual limits of human endurance and the power of relationships, and shows that sometimes loving someone means holding on, and sometimes it means letting go. 

Review:
Wow. This book had me hooked from page one and did not let me down! I was enthralled by the stories of Mara and Scott, especially Mara. While this book had a depressing subject matter, I found it to be extremely interesting. I was unfamiliar with Huntington's Disease before reading this novel and found myself learning more while reading. I truly felt for Mara and Scott. Timmer has the gift to make her characters come to life and for her readers to truly feel for them. 

5 STARS!