The Escape Clause

A zombie, a vampire and their probate attorney stumble onto a criminal conspiracy.

For years, Ernesh Hamilton has been coasting through his comfortable life as a successful probate lawyer in Beverly Hills, California. That is until he visited a local jail inmate to provide free legal services as a pro bono attorney. He prided himself on that kind of charity. 

His new client is a zombie. 

Retired from the movie business, Clay Douglas woke up in a Los Angeles morgue looking rather zombie-like. Shunned by family and society, he became homeless and decided to keep his assets before they are disbursed through his Will. He hopes to use his home and money to figure out what happened to him and how to become undead. Well, un-undead. 

Then there is Clay's new companion, Anuchand Channer, an aloof stranger who claimed responsibility for Clay's situation. And who pledged to make Clay whole. For starters, by coercing Mr. Hamilton not to run away and hide. 

As Ernesh struggles to resurrect Clay, legally not biblically, they stumble onto a convoluted criminal plot, people begin to die under mysterious circumstances, greed and betrayal lurch from the shadows. 

Can they solve this perplexing mystery before someone else winds up dead? Other than Clay who is arguably...you know...