Last Responders Series by Megan Montgomery

Dr. Smythe is the youngest, Medical Examiner in Nashville, Tennessee, only I didn't know it last night when she was between my legs and just Soula.This morning, we meet again as our careers cross paths and if I wasn't concentrating on not spilling my guts from the nasty fumes of this D.O.A., it'd be awkward as hell.Our eyes meet over the autopsy table......ahem......cough......the autopsy table absolutely covered in melted, gooey human remains that are long past recognizable.. moreDr. Smythe is the youngest, Medical Examiner in Nashville, Tennessee, only I didn't know it last night when she was between my legs and just Soula.This morning, we meet again as our careers cross paths and if I wasn't concentrating on not spilling my guts from the nasty fumes of this D.O.A., it'd be awkward as hell.Our eyes meet over the autopsy table......ahem......cough......the autopsy table absolutely covered in melted, gooey human remains that are long past recognizable...I open my mouth to speak. The name, Soula, is right there on my tongue. Unfortunately, so is the stench (and taste) of putrescine. When I wake up on a scratchy, tweed couch with a pounding headache, Soula's handing me something steamy in a Dolly Parton mug. She's just as beautiful in her light green scrubs as she was naked in my bed last night, but her expression is clear—she wants nothing more to do with me.But I want everything to do with her. less

Bethany West swapped her highly lucrative modeling career for her dream job as a funeral director when she partnered at Smythe & Co. Mortuary.She expected to blow the roof off the Victorian-era relic with her eco-friendly innovations and death positive attitude. Instead she’s only managed to piss off her bitter business partner, George Smythe, a man dead set on maintaining the status quo and driving Bethany out of his namesake business... moreBethany West swapped her highly lucrative modeling career for her dream job as a funeral director when she partnered at Smythe & Co. Mortuary.She expected to blow the roof off the Victorian-era relic with her eco-friendly innovations and death positive attitude. Instead she’s only managed to piss off her bitter business partner, George Smythe, a man dead set on maintaining the status quo and driving Bethany out of his namesake business.Sick and tired of his antiquated ways, it’s even worse pretending she doesn’t have feelings for the grump in the gray suit, a man so rigid, he probably has embalming fluid surging through his veins. If only she could only convince him to stop torturing himself about his past.When the pair travel to a mortuary conference in New Orleans—competing against each other in dueling embalming demonstrations—Bethany finally gets the chance to exhume what’s really buried beneath George’s ice-cold contempt for the living. Little by little, he lets her dig. Soon enough, he starts to recognize not only the value of her business model, but an intense and dangerous attraction to the blonde bombshell mortician.Bethany learns the truth behind George’s past, and it’s more disheartening (and more mundane) than she suspected. Unless George opens up and leans on her—at the risk of succumbing to their cremation-level attraction, he’ll jeopardize both the business and their hearts by refusing the true partnership they both need.Content This book contains graphic depictions of the dead and deathcare procedures, kink, and career burnout. less

Decca and Gus fight their way to love, but first they have to survive their marriage.Forensic anthropologist, Dr. Decca Crowley, is no stranger to death.Between traveling across the state of Tennessee to investigate skeletal remains, responding to mass casualty events with her team, and sitting in bedside vigils as a death doula in her "time off," she's exhausted. She’s run herself ragged in her attempt to avoid facing the dark shadows that lurk in her rundown, inherited home... moreDecca and Gus fight their way to love, but first they have to survive their marriage.Forensic anthropologist, Dr. Decca Crowley, is no stranger to death.Between traveling across the state of Tennessee to investigate skeletal remains, responding to mass casualty events with her team, and sitting in bedside vigils as a death doula in her "time off," she's exhausted. She’s run herself ragged in her attempt to avoid facing the dark shadows that lurk in her rundown, inherited home. And the even darker ones that live in her heart.Putting in more work hours also meant putting off any hope of a love life. That part’s been easy.Until now.Her good friend (and not-so-secret crush) Gus, has just graduated from Greek Orthodox seminary, and in order to be ordained as a priest, he must marry—or else serve as a monk. For Gus, lifelong celibacy is a fate worse than death.Purely out of the goodness of her heart—or so she's convinced—the ever-practical and selfless Decca proposes a marriage-of-convenience between herself and Gus. He’s desperate for the companionship; and she could definitely use someone to talk to (other than the 200 year-old skeleton she's piecing together on her dining room table.)But she didn't really think he'd say yes.When the bride and groom finally start to admit their long-held, more-than-platonic feelings for each other, it could be the end of their cozy arrangement. There's too much at stake to fall in love and risk their marriage.But if they find the right framework--the bones of love--it could be their key to happiness.The Bones of Love is an interconnected standalone in the Last Responders Romance series. Although darkly humorous, spicy, and deeply romantic, it contains serious themes centered around religion and the nature of work in deathcare. less