The Dead Romantics
Book Feature - The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
HBL Note: Beach Read meets Ghost. You read that right. I did a double-take when I first read it, too. What? How? But then I read the synopsis and I was intrigued. Then it started to receive endorsements from Ali Hazelwood, Emma Straub and Christina Lauren (all New York Times bestselling authors.) Plus it was chosen as a Good Morning America Book Club Pick. So if anyone can pull off Beach Read meets Ghost, I think it is Ashley Poston. THE DEAD ROMANTICS is Ashley Poston’s adult debut about a disillusioned millennial ghost writer. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Book Feature - The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
From the publisher:
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.
