Afterlife Romance Books: 6 Love Stories Set Between Life and Death
Limbo, the bardo, the in-between: these romances take place where the ordinary rules have stopped, and the only thing that still seems real is the person beside you.
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1. When Darkness Blooms On this site
by Simran Mehta
Two strangers wake in a mist-covered town with no names, no pasts and an inexplicable pull toward each other. Something in the limbo is working to keep them from remembering.
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2. What Dreams May Come
by Richard Matheson
A husband follows his wife past death, through heaven and further. The classic afterlife love story.
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3. If I Stay
by Gayle Forman
After a car accident, a girl hovers between life and death, deciding whether her love is enough to come back for.
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4. Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
A chorus of ghosts stuck in the in-between, refusing to accept that they are dead. Strange, funny and grief-struck.
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5. Love Beyond The Glass On this site
by Simran Mehta
The other side of the veil: a living student falls for a ghost anchored to a mirror for a hundred years.
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6. Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin
An afterlife where you age backwards toward birth, and a teenage girl falls in love anyway.