Choose Hope

Ross Vanderall is a beautiful, talented, and strong 16 years old girl. The only downside is that she has bone cancer spiraling up her spine and tangling around her legs like an unbreakable rope that binds pain,hope, and loss into one chaotic mess.
Mindie is plain, nerdy, and weak. She doesn't take risks or rock the boat. She is meek but she loves Ross and would do anything to give her more time or make the time she has the best it can be.
Ross is fine, she has excepted the fate of death. Mindie, however, isn't coping. She fights to stay above the water and just getting out of bed to face the day is a struggle. So Ross develops: Choose hope. A to-do list of things for Mindie to help her break the hourglass she is trapped in. A list of nearly Impossible tasks that give Mindie what she needs most at a time of grief : Hope, love, Confidence, and fearlessness.