Best friends lift you with laughter and wipe away your tears, knowing you sometimes better than you know yourself, so falling in love with your best friend should be the surest way of securing your future happiness. But what if your love isn't returned and you have to watch their life with someone else? What if something more devastating than unrequited love should threaten to separate you forever? Could you survive losing them?For James and Rachel, best friends since childhood, these are exactly the dilemmas they face. Since James first helped Rachel to pick up the shattered pieces of her life following her mother's death, she has depended on him. For James, Rachel is the one person he truly connects with. But with Rachel's realisation of her true feelings for her friend, and the earth-shattering discovery that threatens her life, will the two friends survive together to the end?