Length1h 30m
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A Marriage and a Funeral🖤💍
When Vivian Ashworth — matriarch, casket-industry mogul, and lifelong master of the backhanded compliment — dies, she leaves her three estranged kids one last, outrageous instruction: whoever gets legally married within 30 days inherits the family fortune. Whoever doesn't... watches it go to the church roof fund.
Cue a scramble of sham engagements, a suspiciously charming young widower, a wellness guru's boyfriend doing very fast mental math, and one long-avoided love story between the family's black-sheep clown and the cousin he's been in love with since he was eleven.
A dark comedy about grief, greed, and what a truly chaotic parent will do to get her kids in one room again.
#DarkComedy #FamilyDrama #NewRelease #BookTok
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Humor
Length1 hr 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 23, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A MARRIAGE AND A FUNERAL
2Chapter One: The Best Casket in the Building
3public.
4Family rate.”
5Chapter Two: The Prodigal Clown
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6on Thursdays.”
7Chapter Three: Frankie
8day in a rental shop.
9Chapter Four: The Widower
10Chapter Five: A Small Disaster, As Scheduled
11microphone.
12Chapter Six: The Reading
13movie.”
14Chapter Seven: Patrice Has Thoughts
15almost a magic trick.
16semester.”
17stranger, in under a month, for money.”
18“Dad.”
19structurally impressive.
20Chapter Eight: Sunstone Considers His Chakras and Also Eleven Million Dollars
21Chapter Nine: Julian Does the Math, Badly
22else’s expense.
23Chapter Ten: Pancakes
24question.”
25“Frankie.”
26logistics. Between friends.”
27Chapter Eleven: Roland’s Secret, Which Was Not Actually a Secret
28“Tell us what.”
29way.
30Chapter Twelve: The Escalation
31Chapter Thirteen: The Blowup
32paralegal.”
33the back of her wrist.
34Chapter Fourteen: Pemberton’s Second Envelope
35through the room.
36Chapter Fifteen: What Desmond Did With the Truth
37Chapter Sixteen: What Renata Did With the Truth
38Chapter Seventeen: What Julian Did About It
39“Julian.”
40month.
41Chapter Eighteen: A Marriage, and a Funeral
42the parking lots and pharmacy questions and eleven-minute courthouse
43actual room.”
44Chapter Nineteen: Bree Comes Home
45bulk.”
46Epilogue: One Year Later
47Author’s Note
48over deeper problems?
49reception hall — for grief, for scheming, and finally for celebration.
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