Deadlines: A Written to Death Mystery

Ainsley Moss never thought she'd become a representative for the dead. But as a newbie obituary writer for the Aurora Fall's Guardian, she gets a sneak peek at her new profession. Her ex-best friend and rival newspaper worker turns up blue and stiff as a board in the women's bathroom-after they've had a less than civil confrontation.

Ainsley's in the habit of memorializing the dead, not finding them. But now she's saddled with a motive for murder-killing to drum up obituaries in order to further her career in a dying newspaper business where everything is going digital.

When another victim meets his maker with a connection to the first victim, Ainsley has to make nice with a hard ass, bombshell Detective who's dead set on closing the case or risk the calm of their cozy town. Ainsley's charming, ex-boyfriend turned roommate Gage Sullivan comes to her aid as they throw themselves into deadly research. Every obituary interview brings them that much closer to finding a killer connection. While fighting her new rep as a prime suspect, her matchmaking, Stepford mother is intent on keeping her daughter's dirty laundry under wraps and her sex addicted wealthy grandparents want to buy her way out of jail. Or at least help her learn how to make a shiv.

None too thrilled with the idea of making friends with a cellmate named Betty the Bruiser, she'll wade knee-deep into a cesspool of the town's secrets, gossip, and lies. But with a wacky cast of characters hell-bent on keeping the peace, no bit of personal information is sacred. They have to find a killer-before Ainsley loses her freedom and her chance to make peace with a fate that scares her more than anything else in life.