Selling caskets, doing corpses' makeup and assisting her mortician uncle has led nineteen-year-old Vienna Haymon into a series of not-normal but somewhat unforgettable circumstances through the years. But the most troublesome of all troublesome things happens when a wealthy, handsome young man is declared as another corpse customer, except—his eyes unexpectedly open, and then his mouth says the words, “Please let me stay here for a while.”