Morticia Smith is stuck in a rut. She's dying for a change and desperately wants a family of her own, but she's a mortician who's always been more comfortable with the dearly departed than the living.

An avid reader of Oliver King's thrillers, she falls for a surly travel writer online in The King's Quills fandom. When she accidentally gives away her location and Collin Quinn wants to meet in person, she agrees in a moment of desperation. Morticia has always been reclusive, but thank goodness for diet cola and best friends, because forty isn't proving to be fertile.

Their weekly girls' nights are what keep her calm.

Anxiety ridden Morticia used an old classmate's alias online, so when Collin shows up looking for Sybil, Morticia chickens out, saying Sybil moved away years ago. With the pressure off, Morticia gets to know Collin as she helps him with his research. When the real Sybil shows up, Morticia has to make a choice.

Morticia must decide whether to sit back and do nothing or fight for until death do they part.