Happily Never Afterlife

### by Jessica Marrone

Death was supposed to be the end of her problems — not the beginning of her worst one.

When Petra finds herself in the afterlife, she expects peace, rest, maybe a decent cup of coffee. What she gets instead is Callum: insufferable, infuriatingly gorgeous, and apparently her assigned soul guide for eternity. The same Callum who, in their living years, made her professional life a magnificent disaster.

Now they're stuck together — literally, cosmically, bureaucratically stuck — navigating a realm where the rules are absurd, the paperwork is endless, and the tension between them burns hotter than anything the living world ever managed to produce.

Petra tells herself that what she feels is hatred. Pure, justified, deeply satisfying hatred. Callum tells himself the same thing every time she catches him staring. But the afterlife has a way of stripping away every defense a person carefully constructed over a lifetime, leaving nothing but the raw, terrifying truth underneath.

The problem with eternity is that there's nowhere left to run from someone who already knows your worst moments — and somehow wants to stay anyway.

*Happily Never Afterlife* is a witty, achingly tender romance that asks whether it's possible to finally, truly be seen by the person you spent forever pretending to despise.

Some love stories need a lifetime to begin. Theirs needed something more.