The Dead Romantics: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

A New York Times Notable Book of 2022!

The New York Times Bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick!

"I LOVED this book! ...Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy."--Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

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.

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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368 pages

Average rating: 7.52

513 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

Kierstencora
Oct 10, 2024
8/10 stars
Okay for one, I love how many references to both LOTR and The Princess Bride Ashley Poston adds into her books! Every time there is even the smallest reference I get a spark of joy and feel even more connected to the characters.

This book was a sweet and romantic journey for both characters and I loved the whole thing. Hilarious, and endearing <3
Luna Atmosphere
Oct 09, 2024
8/10 stars
MC drank SO MANY RUM AND COKES. I should have kept a tally. Very cute I like
joss94
Oct 03, 2024
10/10 stars
THIS book gave me faith in romance. Loved Benji and Florence. Talking about grief is something so hard for me but this book have me a new perspective in live and love and how to grief someone you loved. How love is not DEAD. I felt so cozy reading.
Danielleisacat
Sep 29, 2024
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
HoneyChild
Aug 23, 2024
2/10 stars
Couldn’t even get halfway through. So incredibly cringey and weird.

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