Last Things, First Things

About the Book

Val believes his life is ending. Erin believes hers is not. Both may be wrong.

Erin, while waiting to adopt an infant, takes her niece on a trip to the Greek Islands. Amy is a teenage girl eager for adventure of all kinds, and Erin tries to rein her in while at the same time fending off a local lothario eager to show young women the sights and a rich yachtsman offering a taste of luxury.

Val, unable to trust doctors to tell him the awful truth, plans for the last months of his life. To party? To splurge? To travel? Or something else? Faced with the last things in his life, which things come first?

When Erin and Val meet, a profound attraction develops between them, but they don't know each other's secret any more than they know their own.

About the Author

Wells Earl Draughon is the author of the novels Always, Heather, Traci, and Lies. He studied writing at Duke, UNC/Chapel Hill and Harvard Summer School and has published articles in a number of journals. Born in Durham, NC, he now lives in the Boston area.