Florence Day makes her living writing romance novels on behalf of a famous elderly author of love stories. However, she no longer believes in love and romance. After her last breakup, romance has died for her. And it's not just her love life that's dead, but her career is also taking a downturn, as her new editor, who is unbelievably handsome, won't give her an extension to deliver the new book.

Things get worse for Florence when she receives a phone call she never wanted to receive: she has to return to her hometown for her beloved father's funeral. For ten years, she avoided this small town where she grew up but was never understood. Although she missed the warm Southern nights and her eccentric family, she can't bring herself to stay. She hates that everything there remains the same, except her father is gone.

Until the ghost of a man, unbelievably handsome as he was in life, appears on the doorstep of her family's funeral home. And confused. He doesn't know why he's there - with her. Romance is definitely dead... but so is her new editor. However, the unresolved issues he left behind will make Florence reconsider everything she knows about romance.

"Every good story has a few secrets. At least that's what I've been told. Sometimes they are secrets about love, other times family secrets or secrets about a murder. Some are so trivial that they barely feel like secrets; however, they are crucial to the person who holds them. Every person has a secret. And every secret has a story. And in my mind, every story has a happy ending. If I were the heroine in a story, I would tell you that I have three secrets. One: I hadn't washed my hair for four days. Two: My family owns a funeral home. And three: I was the one who, in recent years, wrote the works of the great author, the top-selling and highly acclaimed romantic novelist Ann Nichols. And I was extremely late for a meeting."