Becoming Perfect Before the End

From the back cover

A doctor tells Kathleen Sullivan she has late-stage cancer and, without immediate experimental treatment, only three days left. But the single available slot goes to her sister Yvonne Lawson, whose kidney failure her husband Bowen Liddell calls more critical. Kathleen swallows the painkillers that only hasten her death and nods.

In her remaining hours she signs away everything: two billion dollars in shares, the art gallery she built from the ground up, her parents' trust fund, even her mother's Manet. Her daughter Candice Liddell giggles in Yvonne's arms and calls her Mommy Yvonne. Bowen finally smiles, telling Kathleen she has changed, that she is beautiful like this—obedient, generous, no longer argumentative.

Yet Kathleen has arranged what comes after her death, and the evidence she has gathered will expose who Yvonne really is. The countdown has begun, and she wonders what they will remember when her heart stops: the good wife who learned to let go, or the woman who completed her revenge by dying.