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.<br><br>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.

The Undertaker's Secret

“He looks so good,” Mama said. She came up to Mrs. Hankins and took hold of her arm in an affectionate sort of way. “Ruth, you holding up?”


“Oh, I’m fine,” she said. “All the times we’ve been here…I never thought…it never occurred to me…”


“I saw your daughter outside,” Mama interjected easily. “Those kids are getting so big!”


I took my leave. Visitations were Mama’s territory. She knew everyone in Port Moss, and everyone knew her. She held hands, offered consoling words, knew what to say and when to say it, and how to distract and deflect and refocus. She’d been doing this for more than forty years and showed no signs of stopping.


Chapter 6