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Phoebe Glassman, a mortuary cosmologist, lost her husband and 2 year old daughter in a tragic accident three years ago. Grief swallowed her whole and she escaped into the quietude of her job, restoring the dead into an illusion of life for those looking for closure. The one day, the body of a woman named Pauline arrives at the mortuary and everything changes. 

Pauline is Phoebe’s mirror image and has a striking tattoo that is all to familiar. Her curiosity piqued, she begins investigating her doppelgänger’s life and death. Phoebe embarks on an emotional roller coaster that leads to a surprising shared past and revelations about those closest to her. 

This was a book, a quick and easy read. I loved the doppelgänger aspect and the mystery intrigued me.

I loved this book! It definitely made me crave my next vacation! It was a fun read and gave me all the good feels that I love in a sweet romance! 

This book is about two best friends, ten summer trips, and a last chance to fall in love. 

Alex and Poppy have absolutely nothing in common. She’s the wild child with a free spirit. He’s a homebody who’d rather stay in with a book than go out. But after a road trip during college to their hometown, they became the best of friends. Now, living most of the year far apart, they take one glorious week every summer to vacation together. 

That is until two years ago, when they ruined everything and haven’t spoken since. 

Poppy has everything she ever dreamed of but finds herself stuck in a rut and unhappy. The last time she was truly happy was on that final trip with Alex. So she decides to convince her best friend to take another summer trip, lay their cards on the table, and he agrees. Now she has one week to fix everything that went wrong between them. If only she could get around the one big true that’s always stood in between their friendship. What could possibly go wrong?

This book definitely has Just Like Heaven (movie starring Reece Witherspoon) vibes. It is officially one of my absolute favorite reads! I loved every second of it and couldn’t put it down. It touched my heart, made me cry, and left me feeling incredibly happy and hopeful. Definitely a book that I will be rereading in the future!

Florence Day is the ghostwriter for a best selling romance novelist. But she has a problem. She’s had her heart ripped out and no longer believes love exists. For her, it’s completely dead. 

Her new too gorgeous editor won’t give her another extension on her book and she prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call that rocks her world. She has to return home, after nearly a decade of being away, to bury her much beloved father. 

For ten years, she’s run from the town that never understood her, even though she’s missed it terribly. Surrounded by her loving, though eccentric, family and in their family’s funeral home, the town hasn’t seemed to change one bit. 

That is, until a ghost comes knocking on the funeral homes front door. For Florence, romance is dead, but so is her infuriatingly handsome editor. His unfinished business will have her seconding guessing everything she’s ever know about love. 

Mia Eliot has come to LA from her London home for Hollywood’s pilot season. It’s her big chance to break out as an actor and she’ll do whatever it takes to hit it big. At an audition she meets Emily. What starts out as just a simple favor quickly takes a dark turn. Emily goes missing and Mia is the last person to have seen her. But then a woman shows up, claiming she’s Emily, but she is nothing like the woman Mia remembers at all. Why would someone impersonate Emily? Fearing she’s gone insane, Mia goes on a desperate and dangerous search to find answers. Something is very, very wrong. 

This book was good! It didn’t have me on the edge of my seat like the last book I read by Steadman (The Family Game) but I still enjoyed it. A quick read with an interesting mystery that definitely piqued my curiosity.