How does a woman of the night become a Lutheran Lady?
As a young orphaned teen, Mel Steuben found a questionable, but opportune way to survive during wartime--but tragic changes nudged her to bury that lifestyle. Over the years, she's built her identity as a keeper of confidences, a church woman, and a master mortician. Known as the Funeral Queen, she attends a Circle meeting to do what she does best--herd the opinionated women in planning a funeral service for their most eccentric member.
Unfortunately, Kick Carter, a college student and relative of the deceased, would rather do anything else than discuss a useless ceremony or expose her hidden guilt in her aunt's death.
As Steuben and the Lutheran ladies assist in end-of-life details, their good intentions create chaos for the twenty-year-old who is twisting her nights out of control. Steuben has seen and lived this before. Now she must decide which is more important: unburying her closely-guarded past or opening her carefully built life to the messiness of people. And it's beginning to look like Kick Carter may turn out to be the most challenging thing that's happened to Mel Steuben yet.
