When the Wind Blows, Love and the Fog Disperse

From the back cover

For ten days, Madeline and Alexander have not spoken. Then he brings home Chelsea, a nineteen-year-old college girl, and lets her destroy the good luck charm Madeline's late brother gave her, kill her dog, and desecrate her brother's grave to teach her a lesson. When Madeline finally asks for a divorce, Alexander bites her lip and demands to know how long she will keep this up. She never tells him she is dying of stage four pancreatic cancer, with at most a month left to live.

Returning from the hospital, Madeline finds Chelsea in Alexander's white shirt, fresh from the shower in the master bedroom. Chelsea claims she is recovering from gallbladder surgery and has nowhere else to go; Alexander accuses Madeline of being cold-hearted and irrational. When Chelsea smashes the necklace Madeline's brother died to give her, Madeline slaps her, and Alexander shoves her to the ground.

Madeline once believed Alexander would love her for a thousand years. Now she wonders whether to say goodbye to the man she loved, or to let him go.