The Dead Hearts Dating Agency

About this book:

Seventeen-year-old Nora Hughes just inherited her grandmother's Victorian house, a grumpy ginger cat, and a very unusual family business: The Dead Hearts Dating Agency. For ninety-two years, Granny Iris has been matching lonely ghosts with the loves they lost—or the closure they never got—so they can finally move on. Now Nora's stuck running the parlor between trigonometry homework and her mother's estate sale plans, armed with nothing but a blackened iron key, a Rolodex of the restless, and a strict rulebook that includes *never match an unbaptized sailor with a church choir director.*

Her first client is Julian Vance, a nineteen-year-old car crash victim tethered to a silver compact and a seventy-five-year-old misunderstanding. His great-aunt Clara was stood up at Grand Central in 1947 by Walter Holloway—who's currently haunting Nora's armchair, freezing the cat, and insisting his beloved would never have left him. Turns out Clara lived to ninety-six, married someone else, and left a ceramic frog collection behind. But Walter doesn't know that, Julian can't cross over until Walter does, and Nora has approximately forty-eight hours to untangle a decades-old romance before her mom calls the junk haulers.

Witty, atmospheric, and unexpectedly tender, *The Dead Hearts Dating Agency* is a cozy supernatural romance about second chances—both spectral and human. Perfect for readers who love *The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches* meets *Ghosts* (BBC), with a heroine who treats the afterlife like customer service, a supporting cast of Victorian dramatists and modern cynics, and a mystery that spans generations. Nora may not have a driver's license, but she's about to learn that matchmaking for the dead is the best way to figure out how to live.