The Dead Romantics

A Novel

The Dead Romantics

Ashley Poston

The Dead Romantics

Ashley Poston

romance
4.8 (2,066 ratings)
44 chapters 168K reads Updated 2026-07-05
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About this novel

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. 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.

Chapters

01 Cover
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02 Praise for The Dead Romantics
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03 A Buried Story
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04 1. The Ghostwriter
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05 2. The Breakup
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06 3. Dead Romance
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07 4. Fated Mates
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08 5. Dead Serious
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09 6. The Death Toll
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10 7. Days Gone
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11 8. Death of a Bachelor
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12 9. Dead on Arrival
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13 10. Dead and Breakfast
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14 11. Past Tense
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15 12. Emotional Support
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16 13. Ghoul Intentions
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17 14. Moonwalks
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18 15. The Sorrows of Florence Day
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19 16. Songs for the Dead
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20 17. Dead Hour
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21 18. The Undertaker’s Daughters
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22 19. A Dying Practice
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23 20. Novel Idea
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24 21. The Crime Scene
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25 22. Grave Matters
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26 23. The Casket of True Love
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27 24. Such a Scream
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28 25. Deadweight
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29 26. Ridges of the Past
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30 27. Ghost of a Chance
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31 28. Dancing with the Dead
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32 29. When the Dead Sing
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33 30. Strange Bedfellows
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34 31. Bring Out Your Dead
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35 32. It’s a Death!
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36 33. The Last Goodbye
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37 34. Ghosts in the Floorboards
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38 35. Unruly Hearts
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39 36. Lovely Meeting
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40 37. The Dead Romantics
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41 38. Body of Work
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42 39. Ghost Stories
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43 Eccentric Circles
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44 Readers Guide
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