Last Rites for the Living

Twelve years ago, Marcus Delaney left Beaumont, Texas—and his father—with no intention of returning.

Now his brother has called with the only words that could bring him back.

He's dying.

Marcus is a hospice nurse in Portland. He has sat beside dozens of strangers as they took their final breaths. He knows the rhythms of decline, the language of morphine, the precise moment when the body begins to let go. What he does not know is how to sit beside the man who raised him with discipline, silence...