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Dead People Need Invitations
Paperback
Publisher: Gregory Borer
Published: Oct 31 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Warren Fletcher never imagined that losing his career, his savings, and his home would lead him to discover the most unusual business opportunity of his life. When a desperate former colleague offers him a fortune to disappear without dying, Warren realizes that death is society's ultimate escape route. The living are judged, hunted, and punished, but the dead are remembered, forgiven, and left in peace.
Together with Gabriella Pierce, a disgraced mortuary specialist capable of creating remarkably lifelike artificial bodies, Warren establishes Thanatos Transitions, a secretive enterprise offering fabricated deaths to people desperate to escape their pasts. With the help of Nico Sterling, an extraordinary actor who can convincingly imitate a corpse, they transform disappearance into an elaborate business built on deception, theatrical performances, and carefully manufactured identities.
But their most dangerous assignment arrives when Genevieve Beaumont, the wealthy widow of their first client, hires them to organize an extravagant funeral for the very man Warren secretly keeps alive. As suspicious relatives, ambitious investigators, corrupt officials, and increasingly complicated clients enter their world, maintaining the illusion becomes a deadly game. Their carefully constructed empire begins to unravel as betrayal, greed, and unexpected consequences threaten to expose every secret they have buried.
From luxurious funeral chapels and hidden workshops to abandoned buildings and clandestine negotiations, Warren must constantly stay several steps ahead of those determined to uncover the truth. Yet the greatest danger may not come from the authorities, but from the people he trusts and the lies he has convinced himself are necessary.
Darkly humorous, suspenseful, and filled with twisted schemes, Dead People Need Invitations explores identity, desperation, greed, and the strange value society places on death. It is a thrilling story about people who want to escape their former lives, and the dangerous price of becoming someone the world believes is already gone.
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