When Bethany West swapped her lucrative modeling career for her dream job as a funeral director, she expected her eco-friendly innovations and death-positive attitude to blow the roof off the Victorian-era, Smythe Mortuary. Instead she’s only managed to piss off her bitter business partner, George Smythe, a man dead set on maintaining the status quo and driving Bethany out of his family business. Navigating the new workplace (and co-owner) might be rough, but it just might kill her to keep pretending she doesn’t have feelings for the grump in the gray suit—a man so rigid, he probably has embalming fluid surging through his veins. At a business conference in New Orleans, George reluctantly agrees to a truce. For four days, they'll both call a cease-fire on their verbal artillery and present a united front (for the good of the mortuary, of course.) But that might just spell disaster for him. Out of town and on "vacation" for the first time after a decade of caring for the dead, George starts to feel the effects of the stress...and Bethany finally gets the chance to exhume what’s really buried beneath his ice-cold contempt for the living. Little by little, he lets her dig. Soon enough, he starts to recognize not only the value of her business model, but an intense and dangerous attraction to the blonde bombshell mortician. Bethany learns the truth behind George’s past, and it’s worse than she suspected. Unless he opens up and leans on her—at the risk of succumbing to their cremation-level attraction—George will jeopardize both the business and their hearts by refusing the true partnership they both need. This book contains graphic depictions of the dead and deathcare procedures, kink, mental health and career burnout, and dark humor.