The next body on the embalming table may be hers.Preparing bodies for burial wasn't on Ashley's career list until a horrifying accident left her to inherit Fallon's Funeral Home. She spends her days applying final touches and ensuring the departed look more peaceful than they ever did in life.
When a crash echoes from the embalming room late one night, she expects to find a fallen tray or her clumsy assistant. Instead, she unveils a body laid out on the stainless-steel table, posed with unsettling care. The woman has Ashley's face. Ashley's hair. Ashley's scar just beneath her chin. She's even dressed in Ashley's clothes. Clutched in the corpse's pale fingers is a single note:
Murderer
Someone knows what Ashley covered up. As strange threats arrive and familiar faces turn watchful, she realizes the funerals she controls so expertly have become her own fate. She must uncover who is exhuming her past before she becomes the final viewing.
As the town undertaker, she buries secrets with the dead. But someone is digging up hers, and they plan to Take Her Under.