How does a lady of the night become a Lutheran lady? A young woman returns home from classes to discover a shocking secret, a heartload of guilt, and her dead aunt. Mel Steuben, mortician and Lutheran lady, is intimately familiar with troubled pasts. But her attempts to help the young woman will uncover more than just funeral secrets. Steuben has seen and lived this before, but can she help without exposing her own carefully buried past? Color. Humorous and alive. The journey sweeps you into joy and heartbreak, reminding you that wisdom appears in the midst of tragedy and connections grow when we're lost.