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By most accounts, Jake Kelly is a cold, rich and out-of-touch. He's also Chicago's conservative mayoral candidate who genuinely loves his city and doesn’t understand why voters want to know the "real" Jake.

Warm, sassy and opinionated, Kayla Diaz is an accomplished music teacher and violinist. She also loves Chicago, is trying to get back to her city and needs a job-- a "comfortable" marriage and family would be nice too.

When a friend brings them together to come up with a music program for the city’s public school system as part of Jake’s plans for education reform, sparks ignite and combustion follows.

But, after photos of the two of them dancing close at a festival mysteriously show up in local media, things get complicated. Voters love the idea of Jake and Kayla together, but they have it all wrong . . . or do they? Can Kayla trust that Jake wants her for the right reasons or is this just THE POLITICS OF LOVE?

Jamie Sullivan is determined to make it on her own. A widowed mother of twin five-year-old boys with a penchant for comfort foods and impulsive behavior, Jamie guards a painful secret while emphatically refusing to let any man into their lives.

Nick Gray has finally decided to put his own needs first. As the charming and daydream-inducing headmaster of the private elementary school Jamie’s children will attend, he's worked hard to earn his doctorate while single-handedly raising his daughter. He's burned out and looking forward to traveling the world.

But after a nearly injurious first meeting and a blazing instant attraction, Nick and Jamie soon question their former convictions. Dogged by meddling matchmakers, old rivalries, and children who can't keep their feet out of their mouths, they fight past fears and angry in-laws to nurture their attraction into love that lasts a lifetime.

When soccer-star Ronnie Martinez is found dead, it’s ruled a suicide. Ronnie’s mother isn't convinced, she thinks he was murdered. But only Angie and her cohorts at Riverside Funeral Home are willing to investigate.

Angie can hear a dead person’s last words, but she still has a lot to learn about sleuthing, spying, and magic.

The threats on her life tell her she's close to the truth as Angie lands in deep-trouble and meets a fowl rescuer.

When fortune-teller, Abuela Luci, informs her granddaughter, Angie, that “Many changes are coming your way,” no one is more skeptical than Angie herself. Addicted to telenovelas and proud of her Puerto Rican roots, Angie lives alone with her dog, Tito Bendito. While she ekes out a living sculpting busts of prominent people, she seldom admires, Angie’s true passion is solving the decade-old mystery of her parents’ murder.

But when the town mayor, and former client, dies, the family asks Angie to do the post-mortem makeup. With the support of Pappa, the funeral director, and his grandson, Anthony, Angie commences her work in the depths of the mortuary, where she’s startled to discover that she can hear the echo of the dead person’s last thoughts, and the mayor’s last words were: “Bonnie is dead.”

After a few false starts and misadventures, the three of them use Angie’s newfound ability to solve the mayor’s murder without revealing to the police how they got the information.

The funeral home starts offering discounts to murder victims’ families just so Angie can hear their last words and solve their murders, while Angie hopes her new ability leads to her parents’ murderer. With the police growing suspicious, Angie herself may be the next victim as someone doesn’t want their secrets told.

When two old friends of Angie’s are found dead, Angie knows the murders are related to her parents’ case and that her friends knew more than they were letting on. If she solves their murders, she’ll finally learn who killed her parents.

But first, she needs to figure out whether Lieutenant Mahoney is her friend or if she’s in for another betrayal. Unfortunately, her confused feelings for him keep getting in the way of her instincts and undermining her self-confidence.

Angie needs every friend, along with her unique family power, to help her sneak into the county morgue, search for clues her father may have left at a historic nunnery on a tropical island, and chase spies. Secrets can be deadly, even among friends.