The Restorative Artist

Embalmer Graham Creer has spent his life helping others face loss, but when he contracts serious corpse-carried illness, he is forced to confront his own unmade peace with mortality. Trapped convalescing in the apartment inside his funeral home, Graham is haunted by the dead resting in his basement mortuary and plagued by fevered visions of his recently deceased lover. As the horror of his work and his uneasy relationship with his own transgender body drive him deeper into isolation, Graham pulls apart his relationships, his funeral home, and his past in an attempt to escape the pain of grief — but who is he without the dead?

Queer literary fiction meets gothic horror in this debut novel from a former funeral professional.