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

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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: 7.63

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tylertank
Mar 28, 2024
8/10 stars
I really loved this book! I read it on our road trip to Florida. I predicted the end, but regardless, I really loved the concept and how the book still had a happy ever after even when it wasn’t expected.
Julieprz
Feb 23, 2024
10/10 stars
Read it for a bookclub and I'm so glad I did. Was shockingly very poignant to my life and definitely made me cry happy and sad tears. It was moving to me as I related to it and it was so beautifully written I couldn't put it down.
Vega_Ricky
Feb 17, 2024
10/10 stars
Really enjoyed the book.
LMahoney
Jan 26, 2024
10/10 stars
i adored this book. I laughed, i cried and i loved that it didnt have all the typical romantic tropes.
ClaireN
Jan 02, 2024
10/10 stars
I picked this one randomly in my kindle to read list, trying to make progress. It is a nice read, quite light and yet full of family issues. It keeps you hooked to the end, with a few twists along the way, Perfectly positioned to keep you wondering.

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