She grew up with parents who were infuriatingly romantic and in love, and their home was filled with joy.

But the clock is ticking, and not finishing is really not an option.įlorence’s family owns the funeral home in a small southern town. After a harsh betrayal and break-up a year earlier, she just can’t envision true love and happy endings any more. Basically, Florence is a ghostwriter for one of the most successful romance writers in the industry, but she’s behind on turning in the last book she has under contract. The plot synopsis is almost too complicated, but once you get into the story, the pieces fit.

but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she’s ever known about love stories. 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. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. 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.įor 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. 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.

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.įlorence 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.

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