02070cam a2200349 i 4500 553664370 TxAuBib 20220413120000.0 211013s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021048594 9781250241641 hbk. 1250241642 hbk. (OCoLC)1246143007 TxAuBib rda Strawser, Jessica,. The next thing you know / Jessica Strawser. First edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. 339 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Jacket. Includes bibliographical references. "Nova Huston's job-her calling, her purpose, her life-is to help terminally ill people make peace with their impending death. Unlike her business partner, who swears by her system of checklists, free-spirited Nova doesn't shy away from difficult clients: the ones who are heartbreakingly young, or prickly, or desperate for a caregiver or companion. When Mason Shaylor shows up at her door, Nova doesn't recognize him as the indie-favorite singer-songwriter who recently vanished from the public eye. She knows only what he's told her: That life as he knows it is over. His deteriorating condition makes playing his guitar physically impossible-as far as Mason is concerned, he might as well be dead already. Except he doesn't know how to say goodbye. Helping him is Nova's biggest challenge yet. She knows she should keep clients at arm's length. But she and Mason have more in common than anyone could guess... and meeting him might turn out to be the hardest, best thing that's ever happened to them both."-- From publisher's description. 20220413. Terminal care Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Terminally ill Fiction. Psychological fiction. QS7