e-ALC, 09:45:57
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Dan Bittner
Release Date: December 9, 2025
Published by: Books on Tape
Read from: December 16-18, 2025
Stand-alone
Source: PRH Audio App (I received this ALC free from the publisher and their app. I also got the e-ARC from Netgalley and immersive read the two together. This did nothing to influence my review!)
Content Warning: Grief, Death of a partner
For Readers Interested In: Adult, Audio, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Sparkly Covers, Magical Realism, Romance, GhostsTwo people haunted by their exes find that love isn’t dead in this heartfelt romance from the beloved authors of The Roughest Draft.
Morgan is being ghosted by her ex. No, really. It’s sad Zach died and became a ghost. But Morgan and Zach only ever went on the one date, and now she’s being haunted by him. Zach has no desire to spend eternity with Morgan, but he can’t recall his past and doesn’t know how to move on.
At a support group for humans and their haunters, Morgan and Zach run into Sawyer, whose fiancée-turned-ghost has started to fade. Unlike Morgan, Sawyer isn’t ready to part ways with his ghost. Although they face opposite issues, Morgan and Sawyer decide to work together to solve their problems.
As Morgan and Sawyer try to solve their paranormal conundrums together, they find something even more surprising—a tender, growing affection between them that threatens any unfinished business they’re seeking to close. The ghosts of their past might be there in spirit, but the connection between Morgan and Sawyer is as alive as anything they’ve ever felt.
*MY THOUGHTS*
This was one of those books that sprung up on me. I usually DNF all the books by these authors for some reason. I think out of all their others i’ve only finished two of them. So basically I went into this not expecting anything. And instead I gained almost everything.
Ok so part of what made this book was the emotion. I really need to start reading the synopsis, because when we first met Morgan’s ghost, he was annoying, but also funny as hell. But when we meet and find out more about Sawyer’s fiancee, I almost broke down right then and there. That was so sad. Throughout the novel I ended up laughing, crying, and getting mad at them a couple times too. And to me, that’s the sign of a good book. When it feels me with so many emotions, and they’re so many different ones. I felt like I was in this book and I didn’t really want it to end.
The romance was INTENSE. I don’t think I was ready for it honestly. I thought it wasn’t going to happen, but the way they were falling for each other, getting jealous, falling into grief, and hating on each other, it was like they fell in love immediately. They were truly fussing and fighting like an old married couple. And since they had those added people in their arguments, their arguments were also intense.
The plot was ok. It was dual POV, and they were trying to find out what happened to Zach and how to make him move on. I did feel like some of it dragged a bit. They were going on and on about Zach. His stuff could have been wrapped up way earlier. But I will say when it got to the ending I was also crying a little bit. This was a sweet story, but yeah, Still had an issue.
I did hate the dropping us into the middle of the story. I wasn’t sure if this was a paranormal novel or a magical realism one. We got no back story and I didn’t understand the bit about the ghosts. They went to that support group and no one seemed to understand them, and then no one could see their ghosts, so I assumed it was magical realism. Which makes me wonder, how the hell did they get the super power (or super gene) that helps them see ghosts? No it wouldn’t have done much for the later plot, but I’m so nosey. I need something that talks about how we got here. Without it I find that I just feel like the story feels a tad bit incomplete.
This had its ups and downs, but I still really enjoyed it. There was so much about this that I loved. I loved this enough to want some novellas on Sawyer’s fiancee, Morgan’s ex, and either another novel about Sawyer and Morgan or another couple with some other ghosts and Sawyer and Morgan are around. I need more of this story like yesterday.
Overall, I give this
