Following the death of her parents, Noemi Moretti just wants a good cry. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t seem to do so anywhere but at a funeral. Amidst her tedious routine of community college and babysitting her aunt's children, Noemi's funeral crashing addiction provides an outlet for the emotional release that she so desperately craves. However, on the “deathiversary” of her parents’ passing, Noemi finds far more than the cathartic cry she was searching for.

Noemi knows she shouldn't fall for a woman she meets at a funeral that she crashed, but she finds herself captivated by Amara Forsythe—a gorgeous UCLA student who is in attendance to mourn her late grandmother. Later that same day, fate intertwines their lives further when Noemi again runs into Amara, who is attending another funeral, this time for the late Charlie Reed—a conceited football star who was once Amara’s best friend. Noemi doesn’t tell Amara why she’s there–that she’s a funeral crasher. 

Noemi wouldn’t dare call it trauma bonding, but Noemi and Amara fall hard and fast for each other. As their connection deepens, so do the lies, and Noemi doesn’t know how to make it right. She soon becomes caught in a tangled mess that threatens to tear her, and her burgeoning relationship, apart.

​THE PARADOX OF LOVE AND DEATH is a profound and heart-tugging queer adult romance about death, love, and what it really means to be alive. 

Coming soon to Amazon/KU. 

Funerals are only the ending.

It’s everything that happens
​before the funeral that matters.