Synopsis/Details
Margot Hargrove runs her family's funeral home the way she runs everything — with precision, control, and zero tolerance for chaos. So when her assistant's late-night call reveals that Senator Harlan Whitmore's body has vanished from intake the night before his high-profile viewing, Margot does what she always does: she handles it.
What follows is a sleepless, increasingly complicated night in which Margot tracks the Senator to a rival funeral home, strongarms her industry nemesis Gerald Passage into an uneasy alliance, and returns the Senator to his rightful place — only to discover a USB drive taped inside his suit jacket containing recordings that suggest his misdirection was no accident.
By the time Senator Whitmore's composed widow Ingrid arrives, a political operative is working the room, a reporter is circling, and Margot is holding evidence that could detonate a Senate ethics investigation. She quietly neutralizes every threat before the public viewing begins — then suspends the transport driver who took a bribe, passes the drive to the estate's attorney, and accepts a handwritten note from Ingrid that says everything was exactly as it should have been.
It wasn't. But it is now.
