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The Dead Romantics

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK ∙ A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2022
"I LOVED this book! . . . Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy.”—Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

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.
"One of the Summer's Hottest Reads"—Entertainment Weekly
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from May 2, 2022
      Poston (Geekerella) makes her adult debut with a refreshing rom-com about love, loss, and hope. Florence Day’s life is organized around two major secrets: she’s the ghostwriter for a household name romance writer, and she can see ghosts. One secret is kept out of legal obligation, the other self-preservation. A recent breakup has halted her ability to write happily-ever-afters, but when she requests yet another extension from her new—and incredibly attractive—editor, Benji Andor, she is indisputably shut down. Her looming deadline is put on hold, however, when her father dies, and Florence returns to her hometown for the first time in 10 years. She’s expecting to see her father’s ghost. She’s not expecting to see Benji’s ghost. He’s died in the time between their last encounter and her trip, and now he’s haunting Florence. As she attempts to fulfill her father’s peculiar last wishes, memories of him—the only other person in her family who could see ghosts—reignite her ability to write. And, as she and Benji grow closer posthumously, she rediscovers her belief in happy endings. Poston manages to both affirm the cynics and give hope to the romantics by simultaneously embracing and subverting rom-com tropes. The sparkling dialogue makes the characters come alive—even the dead ones. Readers won’t be able to put this down. Agent: Holly Root, Root Literary.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Eileen Stevens is a warm guide through this unexpectedly comforting romance, which embraces life, death, and everything in between. Florence Day can see ghosts. She's also a ghostwriter for a famous romance author, but after a traumatic breakup, she no longer believes in happily-ever-afters. Enter her handsome new editor, who is demanding her latest manuscript. Stevens is especially convincing and charming as smart, anxious, gentlemanly editor Ben. Then Florence gets bad news and reluctantly departs New York City for her small South Carolina hometown. Stevens brings Florence's family--they own a funeral home, of course--and the town's cast of characters to vivid life. As Florence plans a funeral, takes moonlit strolls in a cemetery, talks with ghosts, and falls in love again, listeners will be rapt. J.M.D. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2022

      It is hard to write romance novels when you no longer believe in happily-ever-after. For ghostwriter Florence Day, this task is complicated even further by the annoying appearance of dead people, who hope that she will help them accomplish a last earthly task so they may cross into the afterlife. What might have been a full-on immersion into a quirky, farcical rom-com clich� turns into a reimagining of true love, an acceptance of the love and support of family, and a sweet homage to the romance novel genre. Florence's family owns a funeral home, and ghosts are no stranger to her. When she travels home to help her family prepare for her father's funeral, she is visited by her recently deceased, hunky editor, and it quickly becomes too much for her to handle. But not all is as it appears, and Florence may get her second chance at love, and in spite of her misgivings about writing true love stories, she even submits her book on time. Eileen Stevens narrates this funny, emotional book with enthusiastic energy and meaning. VERDICT A nice, sentimental, fun read that will find its way into listeners' hearts.--Laura Brosie

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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