The Black Bird of Chernobyl

Everything about Lilah Stohler is dark: her clothes, her mood, and her outlook on life and death. That last part is important because Lilah's father has just retired and left her in charge of Stohler's Funeral Home. But Abel Stohler knows his daughter's comfort level rests "downstairs," so he hires one Sparkle Lee Sink, to help Lilah manage the living part of the business of death.

Sparkle is everything that Lilah isn't--a denizen of the Junior League, an aspiring baker, and a marketing whiz.

Lilah isn't happy about this new arrangement, to begin with, but when business starts booming because of Sparkle's bright personality, craveable baked goods, and well-healed social connections, Lilah starts to think things might just work out. But joy is fleeting in the funeral home business, and Lilah's world is turned upside down when an unwitting Instagram post featuring her goes viral--and now, sightings of "The Black Bird of Chernobyl" have become an obsession across the Instaverse.

Lilah knows that Sparkle needs to go, but before she can give her the send-off she deserves, Lilah must first find a way to deal with the inconvenient attraction she's developed for the nemesis whose unconventional methods are single-handedly transforming the death trade--and possibly the Black Bird, herself.