Barnes & Noble Review
2005

The Funeral Planner

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The Barnes & Noble Review
Fresh from her successful debut novel, My Life Uncovered, Lynn Isenberg dives into the world of the young and the driven as she tells the tale of Maddy Banks, an overachiever who equates self-worth with net worth. A born entrepreneur, Maddy has great business ideas -- but ones that always seem to get beaten to market by her college nemesis, Derek Rogers. Her hard-driving outlook on life takes a tumble when a good friend suddenly dies. Experiencing Tara's very generic funeral service, Maddy turns the need for a personalized ceremony into a business: Lights Out Enterprises. Aided by an angel investor and a handsome venture capitalist, Maddy forges ahead, until suddenly there's one death too many. Her retreat to a lake in Michigan, where she tends bar, teaches her the part they left out of the balance sheet: balance. And wouldn't you know it, love follows.
Ginger Curwen