Excerpt from The Dead Romantics by 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.
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.
This book killed me.
From the moment I read the first page, I could not set it down until I finished it.
It is everything I didn’t know I needed, a golden contemporary romance for book lovers, and must be protected at all costs.
What was it that made me love it so dearly? It was the way the story was tragic, yet hopeful. Corny, but not fake. A perfect marriage of grief and love. A story of a girl and ghosts and family and romance, but relatable all the same. This book is an olive branch from your heart to your soul and was incredibly unique. As Poston writes in her reader guide at the end of the book (which I loved just as much as the book), “I read because I want to be held… I want to sink into a novel. I want to be romanced by the possibility of sunsets too pretty to describe and kisses that you feel all the way in your toes and love stories too wide and wild for you to ever feel alone.” This is what this book is. A comfort and a ‘oh, me too!’. Relatable, wild, and heartwarming.
Read it, love it, gift it to a friend. You won’t regret it.
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