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While hosting an end-of-life celebration for one of her terminally ill Wish Upon a Rosie clients, Rosie Grant steps out briefly to grab the ice-cream cake and walks in on her surgical resident fiancé—and her mother, the chief of surgery at the hospital where they all work—partaking in conduct unbecoming in one of the on-call rooms. Betrayed but not surprised, Rosie quietly returns the engagement ring on the spot and is left to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about love and loyalty.
As she navigates the emotional contusion delivered by this latest curveball, Rosie is determined to find solace in helping others through Wish Upon a Rosie, a wish-granting charity for adults facing the end of their lives. Within days of her engagement dissolving into a puff of smoke, documentary filmmaker Ben Strong shuffles into the ICU where Rosie works as a unit clerk—not to document Rosie’s work but to manage the remnants of a horrible tragedy that wiped out his closest family. While Ben sits vigil at his dying pregnant sister’s bedside, Rosie takes it upon herself to support Ben in any way she can.
Haunted by the parallels to her own family’s dark past, Rosie feels a deep connection to Ben’s plight. As a delicate friendship blossoms between Rosie and Ben, she finds herself unable to come clean about the heartbreaking secret responsible for their meeting in the first place.
With Grant family tensions at an all-time high, Rosie does her best to sprinkle magic unicorn dust on everyone and everything around her, until a pesky reporter publicly reveals the secrets she could not bring herself to share, risking everything she holds dear—including her chance at a new beginning with Ben.
A heart-rending and sometimes funny tale of self-discovery, broken and found family, and learning to forgive oneself and others, Wish Upon a Rosie will resonate with fans of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, and Liane Moriarty.
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