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The Funeral Director's Wife
Release Date: September 3, 2024
Subgenre(s): Thriller, Romance
Trope: Dark Secret
Spice: One
All of the author's proceeds she is blessed with from the sales of The Funeral Director's Wife will be donated to the nonprofit organization Oklahoma Homicide Survivors Support Group.
Brooklyn Blatrix comes from a life of privilege, being the heiress of the Blatrix Vacuum dynasty. The daughter of a devoted Catholic school teacher and an alcoholic, absentee father, Brooklyn has felt the weight of responsibility her entire life. With her degree in Funeral Services just within reach, a text from her boyfriend of six years ending their relationship was not what she expected. Then again, neither was getting fired from her job the same week. Determined to seek vengeance on her ex and his new girlfriend, Brooklyn sets up a fake social media profile to aid in her plan. However, by day, Brooklyn must start her new job as an intern at Macintosh Mortuary and Memorial Gardens.
Tall, dark, and quiet Brantley McAffey is not what Brooklyn expected from a funeral home director, but that is exactly what she got. Brantley understands Brooklyn, the pressures she feels, and he does it with an air of intrigue Brooklyn can't seem to stay away from. But, Brantley has a secret he's been keeping from everyone - a secret he's willing to kill for - and Brooklyn is about to find herself in the trenches of a trial by media before the year is over.
THE FUNERAL DIRECTOR'S WIFE is a dark, romantic thriller that takes a twisting story of a passionate, but deadly, relationship and mixes it in with the complexities and dangers of social media.
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Lindsay Schraad Keeling
As the cliche goes, Lindsay has been writing her entire life. She graduated from Mustang High School in Oklahoma in 2010, then went on to obtain her Bachelor of Science in Funeral Services in 2016 from the University of Central Oklahoma. In her twenties, she created a website that featured articles written about homicide victims and missing persons with assistance and permission directly from their families.
In 2020–after moving across the country to Virginia–she co-authored the memoir Where the Trail Ends: The Kenny Suttner Story with her friend Angela Suttner, which won Honorable Mention in Writer’s Digest 30th Annual Self-Published Book Awards. In September of 2021, Lindsay won a Curator’s Choice Award along with third place from Something or Other Publishing’s 1st Annual Short Story Contest for her nonfiction piece, Divorce in the Time of Social Media. In 2022, Lindsay graduated with her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University. While her thesis novel was shelved for a time period, she was intrigued with a new story idea about a clandestine relationship from a unique perspective, in addition to the complexities and dangers of social media, which turned into The Funeral Director’s Wife.
Raised in Oklahoma, Lindsay wants to give back to those who’ve been affected by senseless crime. All of the author’s proceeds, she is blessed with from the sales of The Funeral Director’s Wife will be donated to the nonprofit organization Oklahoma Homicide Survivors Support Group.
