The Dead Romantics
Florence Day ghostwrites bestselling romances for a famous author — which is awkward, because after a brutal breakup she no longer believes in love at all. Worse, her handsome new editor, Benji Andor, refuses to grant the extension she desperately needs. Then a phone call sends her career worries reeling: her father has died, and Florence must return for the first time in a decade to Mairmont, the small Southern town she fled, where her eccentric, loving family runs the local funeral parlour.
Florence has always been able to see ghosts — a family gift she resents. So she is thrown when a ghost appears at the funeral home's door: not her father, but Benji, her own editor, with no idea why he's still here. As Florence helps her grieving family lay her father to rest, she also tries to help Benji find his unfinished business so he can move on — even as she starts to wish he never would.
Warm, funny, and quietly devastating, The Dead Romantics is a paranormal romance about grief, going home, and rediscovering a belief in love in the most unlikely place.
A romance ghostwriter who can see ghosts and has lost her faith in love; returns home for her father's funeral.
Florence's exacting editor, who appears to her as a ghost with unfinished business.
Florence's beloved late father and the town's funeral director.
No. The Dead Romantics is a standalone novel — Ashley Poston's adult debut. Her later adult romances, such as The Seven Year Slip, A Novel Love Story, and Sounds Like Love, are also standalone titles rather than a connected series.
It was a Good Morning America Book Club pick, a New York Times Notable Book of 2022, and a New York Times and USA Today bestseller. It did not win a Goodreads Choice Award — the 2022 Best Romance award went to Book Lovers by Emily Henry.