Dead Set on You
A Novel
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
A woman wakes up as a spirit in her rival coworker’s apartment in this charming contemporary romance for fans of The Dead Romantics and The Hating Game.
As workaholic Evie Pope nears thirty, she’s determined to slow down and start enjoying the “life” part of work-life balance. With a major promotion—and the financial security that comes with it—on the horizon, she might finally have her chance. But when she wakes up as a spirit in her work rival’s apartment and learns her body is stuck in a coma, her plans are officially DOA.
Being a spirit is bad enough. Discovering that Rafael Vela—the man who used to be her friend and is now her biggest rival—is the only person who can help her? It’s a special kind of purgatory. In no position to negotiate, she strikes a desperate deal: He gets the promotion if he helps reunite Evie’s spirit with her body.
As they begin to spend more time together, Evie discovers there’s more to Rafael than his bedroom eyes and his hey-there dimpled smile. With only a week until Evie’s body is transferred to long-term care and out of Rafael’s reach, Evie must choose between trusting the man who betrayed her years ago and figuring things out the way she’s always done it: alone.
This contemporary romance with a paranormal twist blends heated banter, old grudges, and unfinished business, perfect for anyone who believes in second chances.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Alexander's quirky and heartfelt debut puts a paranormal twist on the enemies-to-lovers trope. Evie Pope ran away from a tumultuous childhood marked by her mother's narcissism and the premature death of her sister to spend much of her adolescence living in her car. Now a 29-year-old workaholic with marketing firm Media Lab, Evie is in line for a big promotion. She sees only one obstacle to her success: her work rival, Rafael Vela. After a dinner meeting with a shared client, the last thing Evie remembers is arguing with Rafael on the street, a car horn blaring, and a blinding light—then she wakes up on Rafael's sofa. While her body is in a coma in the hospital, her spirit is trapped in some sort of astral plane and, for some reason, tied to Rafael's apartment. Worse, Rafael is the only person who can see her spirit—and the only one who might be able to help her come back. Rafael has long had feelings for Evie, and the pair were close until a perceived betrayal turned Evie against him. Now it's Rafael's chance to make amends. Alexander uses this fun supernatural conceit to push her heroine to realize that there's more to life than just surviving. Evie's emotional journey is just as satisfying as the gradually developing romance. Readers will be hooked.
