Madison Banks has brilliant ideas and an Ivy League degree in Entrepreneurial Studies to go with them. But no matter how hard she tries, she fails to get lift off on her start-ups, and is constantly usurped by her arch nemesis, the arrogant Derek Rogers. When Madison attends her college classmate’s funeral, she launches the goldmine idea of the century and finds handsome venture capitalist Victor Winston to back it. Between the trials and tribulations of growing a business, competing with copy-cat Derek Rogers, facing unresolved grief, accepting love and trusting faith…Madison learns that celebrating life is the self-worth that caps net-worth any day. If you want to learn how to celebrate life and start a business in an emerging field, or any field… The Funeral Planner is a fictional manual for the ambitiously-inclined determined to create a life worth living.

Demi McDaniel is an 18 year old girl in her last year of high school. She doesn't have any friends anymore and keeps to herself, purposely not letting anyone in or close to her. She has her reasons for being the way she is and she plans on staying that way, focusing all her time on graduating and her music until high school is over and then she'll finally be able to leave the place that holds the memories that she wishes to forget, along with leaving behind her horrid home life. But when a new and young music teacher is hired in as a substitute he instantly takes an interest in Demi, slowly getting her to let her barriers down and possibly taking her heart as well.