Darling, I'm Running Out Of Time

Celine Arden has spent her entire life doing everything right. At twenty-four, she has a stable career, a respectable apartment, a carefully planned future—and a terminal illness that has reduced that future to months, not years. So Celine makes a list. Things she has always told herself she would do someday. Eat somewhere expensive just because she can. Dance in the rain. Say the things she's always been too afraid to say. Fall in love. Then she finds an opportunity that can solve two problems at once: a highly paid position as a household assistant to Lucan Mercer, the notoriously private twenty-six-year-old billionaire CEO whose work she has admired for years. She applies for the money. She stays for the experience. She never expects the cold, controlled man behind the Mercer empire to become the person who makes ordinary days feel extraordinary. Lucan doesn't know Celine is dying. He only knows that she is unlike anyone he's ever met—too honest, too stubborn, too alive. Somehow, the woman who was supposed to be temporary begins becoming permanent in every part of his life. And then Lucan starts making plans. Plans for next month. Next year and their future. A future Celine knows she may never see. The closer they become, the harder her secret becomes to carry. Because Celine thought the hardest part of having months left would be dying. But life has just proved her wrong. The hardest part is falling in love with someone who believes they have forever.