Synopsis
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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Review
The Dead Romantics was such a unique romance! It was fun and whimsical.
Books that set out to be different can sometimes be too much, but I didn’t feel the way about The Dead Romantics. It was such a cute story, and though it was a romance, as the book points out, love comes in many forms. I loved the Day family. Their quirkiness was so enjoyable. Florence, the female main character, is a bit of a black sheep. Though, as usual with families, she doesn’t actually see herself the way others do. Benji was also a treat, He was very much the Mr. Darcy type, and I adored him.
This book had some great twists and turns, some I saw coming and others that surprised me. As I mentioned, this was more than just a love story between a man and a woman—it was a love story about family and finding faith in yourself. There were just so many heartwarming parts of this!
