An Atlanta ex-cop comes to sleepy Lake Sackett, Georgia, seeking peace and quietโbut he hasnโt bargained on falling for Frankie, the cutest coroner heโs ever met.
Frankie McCready talks to dead people. Not like a ghost whisperer or anythingโbut it seems rude to embalm them and not at least say hello.
Fortunately, at the McCready Family Funeral Home & Bait Shop, Frankieโs eccentricities fit right in. Lake Sackettโs embalmer and county coroner, Frankieโs goth styling and passion for nerd culture mean sheโs not your typical Southern girl, but the McCreadys are hardly your typical Southern family. Led by Great-Aunt Tootie, the gambling, boozing, dog-collecting matriarch of the family, everyone looks out for one anotherโwhich usually means getting up in everyone elseโs business.
Maybe thatโs why Frankie is so fascinated by new sheriff Eric Linden...a recent transplant from Atlanta, he sees a homicide in every hunting accident or boat crash, which seems a little paranoid for this sleepy tourist town. Whatโs he so worried about? And what kind of cop can get a job with the Atlanta PD but canโt stand to look at a dead body?
Frankie has other questions that need answering firstโnamely, whoโs behind the recent break-in attempts at the funeral home, and how can she stop them? This one really does seem like a job for the sheriffโand as Frankie and Eric do their best Scooby-Doo impressions to catch their man, they get closer to spilling some secrets they thought were buried forever.
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