The Eighteen Months

The doctor estimated three months. Neither of them knew how to prepare for eighteen.

When his mother, Miriam, is diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer, twenty-eight-year-old Terry Warren begins measuring life in appointments, medications, and the time they might have left.

He wants to care for her himself. He wants her comfortable, safe, and certain she has not been abandoned.

But as weeks become months, love cannot replace lost sleep, missed wages, or the help neither of them wants to admit they need. Miriam struggles to preserve her independence. Terry fears that acknowledging his exhaustion means failing her.

Between difficult nights and unexpectedly tender afternoons, mother and son must learn how to accept support without surrendering the choices that still belong to them.

The Eighteen Months by Mia Bills is emotionally honest contemporary fiction about family caregiving, terminal illness, anticipatory grief, and the complicated love shared by people facing an uncertain goodbye.

How do you remain present for someone you love without disappearing from your own life?

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Content note: Includes advanced cancer, caregiving exhaustion, financial hardship, hospice care, death, and bereavement.

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Cover: 100% AI

Content: 70-80% writer

Category: Contemporary Fiction, Family Drama, Secular Fiction

File Format: PDF, EPUB

Word Count: 11,200

Rating: PG