Samantha Allen with Emily Martin

In , a ghostwriter finds the gig of a lifetime, except there's a catch: the client, a closeted A-list actor finally ready to come out in his memoir is an actual ghost - and the sparks flying between the men are becoming a little too real.

Adam Gallagher has knocked on thousands of doors. An ex-Mormon and almost-famous memoirist, he is used to sharing his life story with strangers. But this day, this house, is different. For it belongs to none other than Roland Rogers: Hollywood Hunk, and soon to be author. Roland has a story to tell, a decades-old secret to spill, and he’s decided that Adam is just the guy to help him do it.

Except there’s a problem. Roland Rogers is dead. Not in the metaphysical realm—if he focuses, he can summon enough energy to communicate via the kitchen speaker—but certainly in the physical, and he needs Adam to pen his story before his body is found frozen beneath the avalanche of snow that squashed it. That means one month, a hundred thousand words, no breaks.

Ghostwriting is hard enough, let alone when you’re dealing with a real ghost, and so it isn’t long before Roland’s idea of what his book should be clashes with Adam’s vision for what it could be. But the clock is ticking, the ice melting. And as more truths are told, both men soon discover that this experience is less of a coming out, and more of a coming home.

Samantha Allen is the author of Patricia Wants to Cuddle and the Lambda Literary Award finalist Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States and a GLAAD Award-winning journalist. Her writing has been published by the New York Times, Rolling Stone, CNN.com, and more. She lives with her wife in Seattle.

Emily Martin is a contributing editor at Book Riot, cohost of the podcasts All the Books and Book Squad Goals, and author of the newsletters The Fright Stuff and Book Radar. She has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MFA in Creative Writing from Georgia College and State University. Most importantly, she's the proud mom of three perfect cats.

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