Two-time Lambda Literary Award-winning author Ann McMan takes readers inside the inner workings of the funeral home business as only she can in this remarkable and wholly unforgettable romantic comedy that proves Life is for the Living.
Everything about Lilah Stohler is dark: her clothes, her mood, and her outlook on life and death. That last part is important because Lilahs father has just retired and left her in charge of Stohlers Funeral Home. But Abel Stohler knows his daughters comfort level rests downstairs, so he hires one Sparkle Lee Sink, to help Lilah manage the living part of the business of death.
Sparkle is everything that Lilah isntan empathetic marketing whiz who is a true people person.
Lilah isnt happy about this new arrangement, but when business starts booming because of Sparkles bright personality, delicious baked goods, and knack for funereal commerce, Lilah starts to think things might just work out. But joy is fleeting in the funeral home business, and Lilahs world is turned upside down when an unwitting Instagram post featuring one of her moods goes viraland now, sightings of The Black Bird of Chernobyl have become an obsession across the Instaverse.
Lilah knows that Sparkle needs to go, but before she can give her the send-off she deserves, Lilah must first find a way to deal with the inconvenient attraction shes developed for the nemesis whose unconventional methods are single-handedly transforming the death tradeand possibly the Black Bird, herself.
Genre: Gay Romance
Everything about Lilah Stohler is dark: her clothes, her mood, and her outlook on life and death. That last part is important because Lilahs father has just retired and left her in charge of Stohlers Funeral Home. But Abel Stohler knows his daughters comfort level rests downstairs, so he hires one Sparkle Lee Sink, to help Lilah manage the living part of the business of death.
Sparkle is everything that Lilah isntan empathetic marketing whiz who is a true people person.
Lilah isnt happy about this new arrangement, but when business starts booming because of Sparkles bright personality, delicious baked goods, and knack for funereal commerce, Lilah starts to think things might just work out. But joy is fleeting in the funeral home business, and Lilahs world is turned upside down when an unwitting Instagram post featuring one of her moods goes viraland now, sightings of The Black Bird of Chernobyl have become an obsession across the Instaverse.
Lilah knows that Sparkle needs to go, but before she can give her the send-off she deserves, Lilah must first find a way to deal with the inconvenient attraction shes developed for the nemesis whose unconventional methods are single-handedly transforming the death tradeand possibly the Black Bird, herself.
Genre: Gay Romance