The Ending I Want

Taylor Shaw had the perfect life until she was sixteen. That was the year a brain tumour arrived, and the year after it went, her whole family did too. She has spent every year since coasting — present, functioning, not really living.

Now the tumour is back, and Taylor has made her decision. No more hospitals. No more surgeries. No more anything. She is going to join her family, on her own terms, and she is at peace with it. She has only one thing left to do first, which is the list: go to England, kiss a stranger, and keep going until every item is crossed off.

The stranger is Liam Hunter, and Taylor did not plan for him. She did not plan for the accent, or the two weeks, or the fact that a man met at the beginning of a bucket list has a way of rearranging what is on it. What is a woman standing at the edge of nothing supposed to do when she is offered everything instead?

The Ending I Want is a standalone contemporary romance by Samantha Towle. It deals directly with terminal illness, grief and the decision to refuse treatment.