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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Dead for a Day, Forgotten Forever

Dead for a Day, Forgotten Forever

Moody

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798183028652
Publisher: Darrell Moody
Published: Oct 31 2026
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Victor Rhodes has built a lucrative business out of making death beautiful. In the Elysian Salon, a former Manhattan bank transformed into an extravagant performance venue, wealthy clients purchase elaborate living funerals that let them rehearse their own departures while they are still alive. Victor treats every detail as a transaction, convinced that money, design, and control can keep the reality of death at a safe distance.His younger sister Melody sees the cruelty beneath the spectacle, while the quiet florist Violet Ashford appears to be little more than an efficient employee. When shipping magnate Elias Hawthorne commissions a lavish bronze-casket event, Victor's business crosses into something far more sinister. The performance becomes entangled with the Hawthorne family's inheritance and a plan that exposes the salon as more than a playground for vanity. As clients and powerful associates gather around Victor, the carefully managed theater begins to turn against its creator.Strange memories intrude on Victor's confidence: the sensation of earth and splintered wood, the terror of being trapped, and a past he has buried beneath decades of wealth and theatrical control. Violet, whose apparent passivity conceals a formidable purpose, has been collecting evidence about the salon's clients and its hidden dealings. The florist knows far more than he imagined, and the people who once paid him to choreograph their public image may now become witnesses to his undoing.The grand staging he designed to keep grief at a distance becomes a trap of his own making. Fire and chaos destroy the illusion of perfect control, leaving Victor to face the loss and guilt that no casket, contract, or carefully directed eulogy could contain.In the aftermath, Victor's world is reduced to a modest room overlooking a municipal potter's field. Removed from the luxury business he once ruled, he encounters the unadorned grief of ordinary people and begins to understand the dignity he denied them. For the first time, Victor allows himself to mourn without directing the scene.Dead for a Day, Forgotten Forever is a dark psychological thriller about mortality, vanity, exploitation, and the human need to be remembered. It asks what happens when death becomes a commodity-and whether a man who has spent his life staging grief can learn, at last, to feel it too.

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