"All along, during every cancer diagnosis and treatment, he and Claire had talked about every scenario and possibility. From the beginning of this nightmare, something in Danny's gut had warned this day would come - Claire's prognosis had always been poor - but the reality of her surrender filled him with rage. The muscles tensed in his arms, neck, and legs. He wanted to scream, smash something, everything, plead his case, change her mind. With her in his arm, there was nothing he could do."

      - Novel excerpt from "Coming Clean," The Lakeshore Review