Contemporary Romance published by Berkley 28 Jun 22
My heart! This was such a sweet story of overcoming loss and gaining personal growth. I absolutely adored the characters and the writing.
Florence is a ghost writer who can actually see ghosts. That part isn’t really ever explained, but I don’t mind. She’s visited by recently deceased ghosts that need help with unfinished business before they can cross over.
She’s been burned one too many times and no longer believes in love, which is unfortunate since she’s currently trying to finish a romance novel. Then her father unexpectedly dies and she has to return home, something she hasn’t done in a very long time. It’s there she is confronted by the ghost of her new hot editor. Together they work through their issues and Florence comes to terms with a lot of past trauma.
It sounds a little crazy, I wasn’t sure I’d be into it, but after @magically.kate confirmed all the stellar reviews for this book were indeed warranted, I gave it a shot. I’m so glad I did, because this was phenomenal and I already can’t wait to read it again!
Grade: A
Summary:
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.
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