Charles Waters has thirty days to live. Those days pass in a blur and he dies a quiet, unnoticed death. <br> <br>He opens his eyes back in the doctor's office as he is told, "I'm sorry to say, but you have thirty days to live." <br> <br>Thus begins The Many Short Lives of Charles Waters, who has to live the same thirty days over and over while he finds out what it is to be alive. <br> <br>The Many Short Lives of Charles Waters is the twelfth book in the Middle Falls Time Travel series. Like all Middle Falls books, it is a standalone novel and they can be read in any order.