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  • Writer's pictureMichelle Grey

The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston



Story Blurb


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.


My Thoughts/Opinion

I had a friend recently say that Ashley Poston was a master at making paranormal normal. And she wasn't wrong. I enjoyed so much about this book - the quirkiness of the heroine and her family, the remarkably fun and unique story line, the fantastic writing. I think most of all, I loved the growth of the hero and heroine as the story unfolded. Highly recommend!


Favorite Quote:

“There is no happy ending, there's just. . . happily living. As best you can.”



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