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    "description": "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.\n\nFlorence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem\u2014after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It\u2019s as good as dead.\n\nWhen her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won\u2019t 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.\n\nFor ten years, she\u2019s 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\u2019t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it.\n\nUntil she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor\u2019s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he\u2019s just as confused about why he\u2019s there as she is.\n\nRomance is most certainly dead . . . but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she\u2019s ever known about love stories.",
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