The Dead Romantics

Ashley Poston

Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem—after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It’s as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye.

But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father. For ten years, she's run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can’t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it. Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor’s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he’s just as confused about why he’s there as she is.

Romance is most certainly dead . . . but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s ever known about love stories.

Magical Realism Paranormal Romance Emotional (Tear-Jerker) Funny / Lighthearted Hopeful / Uplifting Steamy / Spicy Enemies to Lovers Forced Proximity (Only One Bed) Ghost Romance Small-Town Romance
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Why we picked this

This book is romantic, funny, and genuinely emotional while also being, quite literally, a ghost story. Florence is a romance ghostwriter who no longer believes in love, until she returns home after her father’s death and finds the ghost of her very handsome editor waiting for her. It’s quirky and warm, but underneath that, it’s really a story about grief, family, hope, and finding your way back to love when you’re not sure you believe in it anymore.

Recommended by Veronica JordenReader in Residence

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