Driving aimlessly through the stormy
suburbs of San Francisco, Casey Wheeler is fleeing from her abusive and
unfaithful husband with her five year old daughter Maddy asleep in the
backseat. With nowhere to go and no one
to turn to, Casey loses control of her emotions and her car, crashing into a
hillside below a mortuary. Desperately
seeking shelter, and more so independence, she finds herself taken in by the
mortuary director who apprehensively offers her a job and a place to live. As she stumbles through the ins and outs of
her new and morbid surroundings, Casey is forced into a hostile custody battle
with her relentless and increasingly violent husband. In the midst of all the chaos, she finds a
new family and even love in the eccentric and protective people of Golden Oaks
Funeral Home. But just when she has
found all she could hope for, she will have to fight to the death to protect
it.
This semiautobiographical story of a
single-mother and her journey to self-discovery, independence and a true understanding
of love will keep readers captivated and yearning for more.
Snippet #2
I was trying to follow the rhythm
of his breathing. It was all I could hear anymore. His gentle hands held my
face, and then one moved to my wrist, keeping time. My breathing started to
slow, and I could smell him, the musky and insanely sexy smell of cologne and
sweat. I could feel the warmth of his breath, and I knew he was just inches
away. I didn’t want to move, and not because these episodes drained me of all
energy, but because I wanted nothing more than to stay right there, with Oliver
close enough to breathe in.
Rebecca Fisher graduated with a B.A. in English and an M.S.
in Education, and teaches High School English. Her own experiences living in a
mortuary in Northern California and raising her daughter on her own serve as
the inspiration for the many macabre and candid encounters in her novel. She
lives in California with her husband and two daughters.
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