The Lavender Hour by Anne LeClaire

Jessie moves to Cape Cod when she is let go from her job teaching art. She decides to volunteer with a local hospice program after she hears in a lecture that "we learn how to live from the dying." She's also motivated by her bout with cancer a few years before. Her first client is Luke, a fisherman. Jessie becomes attached to his mother, Nona, and slowly to Luke. She soon realizes she is falling for him. But when he asks her to help him die with dignity, what will she do? Jessie is a flawed character (she breaks some hospice rules and doesn't reveal that she had cancer herself), but LeClaire creates a story with well-drawn characters, one that makes for engaging reading.