Blaize Nolynne, the 25-year-old Maine author of “The Captain’s Last Year, Fighting the Fire and Cancer: One Year to Live” asks the question: “What would you do with only one year to live?” Her short story focuses on that question and shows the reality of cancer and how no one is ever prepared to answer that question.

In her story, Steven Williams is a fire captain on a volunteer fire department who lives with his family in River Falls, Maine. The doctors have given him only one year to live. At first he denies the diagnosis of stage four stomach cancer. Treatments begin to fail and he realizes his time is running out. The questions pop in his mind of what he should do with the one year he has left of his life. Could he change the fact that the community has become a disrespectful place? Could he change the way his son Christopher treats him? Or is it too late?

Nolynne guides you through this inspirational book that will leave you wondering what you would do with a year to live. You might be surprised at your answers.

In an earlier book, “Firefighter Down, District One” Nolynne captured the premise that “Life isn’t promised.” In that book, Catisha Spadoni learned that premise the hard way. No one should lose a loved one the way she did; by an animal — a crafty, ever-changing, ever-devouring, continuously hungry elemental animal — fire. Catisha needs to know who opened the cage and why that hateful beast was let loose; and why her hero — her father — had to die.

Years later, Catisha is training to be a firefighter herself. How else is she going to gain the knowledge and understanding of the birth, the life, and the death of fire? And, if by chance, this path brings justice to her father’s murderer, so be it.

Twists and turns await you as Nolynne guides you through the rigorous and demanding torture Catisha endures to become a firefighter. You’ll close the book with satisfaction and an admiration for what our firefighters experience to keep us safe from the elemental animal … fire.

Nolynne books are available on Kindle, and traditional paperbacks and hardcover are available at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, bam.com, and elsewhere. Part of the royalties will go to the 9/11 Foundation and also the National Fallen Firefighter Fund. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/blaizenolynnefan.

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