The Path That Led Me Here - Kim Nottingham

Maddie has a secret and it's a big one. Confident that cancer is causing the symptoms she has been experiencing, she ops not to seek treatment. Instead, she embraces the deadly illness, hiding it from those around her in hopes of quietly drifting away. How she got to this place was a cascade of events ignited by the death of her only child... 

She now must face the consequences of her actions even while daring to ask for a second change at happiness.