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Lauren B. Evans

Hello. I’m Lauren.

My debut novel CASKET CASE comes out on September 10, 2024. I hope you’ll read it.

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ABOUT THE BOOK: CASKET CASE

From debut author Lauren Evans, Casket Case is the heartfelt story of a small-town girl who feels surrounded by death—literally and figuratively. This clever, endearing, and romantic debut explores how love and loss are forever intertwined…but death might not be as scary as it seems.

Longlisted for the Cheshire Novel Prize in 2022.

Nora thought she was finished with Rabbittown, Alabama for good. But an unexpected tragedy turned her life upside down and she’s found herself back in her tiny hometown running the family casket business. 

There aren’t exactly a lot of prospects for a single woman in her 30s in a place like Rabbittown. Until Nora’s ordinary, casket-selling day is interrupted by a handsome stranger wandering into her shop and asking for directions—as well as a date.

Garrett Bishop seems like the ideal guy. He’s thoughtful, he’s kind, and he has a lucrative job as a logistics coordinator, for which he seems to have a passion. She’s not totally sure what “logistics” entails, but she knows it means long hours, lots of travel and urgent calls in the middle of the night. 

When a few of Rabbittown’s residents suddenly pass away—a heart attack here, a car crash there—and Garrett is spotted at the scenes of, well, all of the deaths, his frustratingly vague job description starts to become increasingly…suspicious. What is it that Garrett actually does for a living? 

He’s a “logistics coordinator” for Death. 

When Nora discovers the truth, she is unable to reconcile the wonderful man she knows with the unthinkably cruel job he loves. Will she ever be able to understand how he can do what he does, or will she have to lay her best chance at love to rest?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lauren Evans holds a BA in English from The University of Alabama and an MA in Liberal Studies from The University of North Carolina Wilmington. She now works in higher education in Atlanta and writes in her spare time, whenever her beagle Lucy allows.

Casket Case was longlisted for the Cheshire Novel Prize in 2022 and is her debut novel.

Agent:
Sophie Cudd at The Book Group

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