With absolutely no warning, the tall, slight, blonde South Washington quietly announces to Sara Bond, his best friend and business partner, that he has been given three months to live. He has made arrangements for everything, including the dissolution of their partnership and the sale of their advertising firm, S&S Advertising.

At first, Sara finds it too painful to believe that the one man she has been able to trust and depend on for the past ten years is dying. She thinks back to when they met, just after her disastrous college love affair with the dashing but shallow Brandon Lefgren. She'd clung to South then as the opposite of all Brandon represented, honest, committed, and not at all dashing. And South, for his part, had always been true to her, even when it had meant sacrificing his lady friends who could not understand their relationship.

For Sara, of course, there had been no one since Brandon, despite South's chidings that she get out more, his promises that not all men were like Brandon Lefgren, his warnings that she was missing out on life. That had been in the beginning, of course, before he had learned that she preferred her life without the pain of love that had almost destroyed her. It is her casual, trusting friendship with South that has kept her alive!

Sara owes him so much--how will she be able to repay him now that he will be gone in only three months?

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