
Funeral home owner and undertaker Dual Hood knows a good thing when he sees it, so when Charlie Soder applies for the job of embalmer, he snatches up the young man in a heartbeat. Charlie, fresh-faced and just out of college, also knows a good thing when he sees it, and immediately sets his sights on his new sexy boss.
It doesn’t take long for sparks to fly and romance to blossom. But Dual worries what folks in his small Mississippi town will say, and whether his family-owned business will suffer if word goes round about his new love interest. He isn’t at all certain he has the courage to do the right thing and grab love before it slips through his fingers.

Chapter 1Like most of the best stories, this one involves a dead body, and since I own a funeral home, dead bodies are not a problem for me. Certainly not as big a problem as Charlie Soder. How do I explain Charlie? And how do I solve this Charlie-shaped problem that fell into my lap? Charlie. Charlie. Charlie. Charlie! I was smitten. Okay, there’s that. Let’s be honest, shall we? Let’s tell the truth. Let’s put it out there in words that even I can understand. My new funeral home embalmer and all-round assistant is a looker, a piece of eye candy so sweet I’m afraid my eyes will get diabetes just from looking at him. All the standard things: blond hair, silky and soft, courtesy of Nordic ancestors. Oddly dark eyes that can only be described as soulful and penetrating. Pale skin, fine mu
