Bethany West swapped her highly lucrative modeling career for her dream job as a mortician when she partnered at Smythe & Co. Mortuary. In those seven months, she expected to blow the roof off the Victorian-era relic with her eco-friendly innovations and death positive attitude. But during that time, she’s only managed to piss off her embittered business partner, George Smythe, a man dead set on maintaining the status quo and driving Bethany out of his namesake business. Bethany’s sick and tired of his antiquated ways, but it’s even worse pretending she doesn’t have feelings for the grump who’s so rigid, he probably has embalming fluid in his veins. If she could somehow convince him to stop torturing himself about his past, she’s pretty sure George could love her right back. When the pair travel together to a mortuary conference in New Orleans—competing against each other in dueling embalming demonstrations—Bethany can finally exhume what’s really buried beneath George’s ice-cold contempt for the living. Little by little, he lets her dig, slowly starting to see the value of her business model. He’s also recognizing his own intense and dangerous attraction to his blonde bombshell business partner. Bethany learns the truth behind George’s trauma, and it’s more disheartening and mundane than she suspected. Unless George opens up and leans on her—at the risk of succumbing to their cremation-level attraction, he’ll jeopardize both the business and their hearts by refusing the true partnership they both need. ***BE WARNED: This book contains graphic depictions of the dead and graphic depictions of sex (not necessarily at the same time).

Publication Year: 2023