Description:
"In life I had suffered a thousand deaths, and in the midst of death I
encountered true life. I had looked in all the wrong places, until there, on a hill of
ivy, I was found."
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.