A Brief, Fleeting, Almost Impossible Gift

By Karaya Vega

Maya's family thought money would buy everything-sunny days, a new house, a new life in Hawaii. What it didn't buy was time. Within weeks of their move, Maya is diagnosed with a terminal illness, and she finds herself torn between two lovers: Elijah, a forthright, daring boy whose own dying gives him a fierce appetite for living, and Gabriel-the mysterious, luminous, and possibly dangerous, stranger who keeps appearing at her bedside and in the margins of her most desperate hours. One offers flesh-and-blood tenderness. The other promises a strange, solemn mercy. As time runs out, Maya must decide what matters most-memory, meaning, or the last bright days she can steal from fate-before the blood that sustains her runs out.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1735783234
• ISBN13: 9781735783239
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Sphinx Moth Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"