Book Details:
Author: Melissa Fourcade Adams
Release Date: June 7, 2026Series:
Genre: Paranormal coming-of-age speculative romance
Format: E-book
Pages: 390 pages
Publisher: Sharing Our Gifts Press, LLC
Blurb:
Colby Asher loved his life… right up until he died. Now because of one fatally stupid mistake he’s stuck haunting his college campus. With no idea what is keeping him trapped, he’s quickly losing hope of ever moving on. Until he sees freshman Emmy Zane.
More importantly, she sees him.
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Emmy is a spunky, guarded introvert determined to fly under the radar for the next four years. She has her own reasons for staying in the shadows, and a flirty, obnoxious ghost won’t change that. But Colby’s demands for answers become impossible to ignore, and Emmy is pulled into a partnership she never wanted and a deepening connection that defies logic. As they piece together clues around Colby’s final night, they discover that moving on requires more than just solving a puzzle—it requires facing truths they would both rather keep buried.
Featuring a supernatural cast from southern Maryland history and folklore, Meet Me in the Graveyard is a haunting, heartwarming journey through the fears, flaws, and love that make us human.
Review
Meet Me in the Graveyard by Melissa Fourcade Adams is a paranormal romance and mystery that combines an impossible love story with campus folklore, historical injustice and a deeply compassionate exploration of grief. Emmy Zane arrives at St. Mary’s College determined to begin a new life after surviving childhood leukaemia, only to discover that she can see Colby Asher, a charming, mischievous student who drowned six years earlier and now haunts the campus graveyard. What begins with pranks and spirited Shakespearean exchanges gradually becomes an investigation into why Colby remains trapped between worlds and why Emmy, alone among the living, can see him.
The chemistry between Emmy and Colby is the novel’s immediate pleasure. Emmy is intelligent, defensive and gloriously difficult, while Colby uses humour, flirtation and theatrical confidence to conceal grief, guilt and loneliness. Their alternating perspectives allow us to witness both sides of a relationship each understands cannot unfold in any conventional way. The teasing is genuinely funny, but Adams also gives their connection considerable emotional weight. Colby encourages Emmy to trust the friends gathering around her, while Emmy gives him the courage to examine the life, family and creative ambitions he left behind. Their romance becomes moving because each sees the vulnerable self the other has worked so hard to protect.
The supporting characters greatly enrich the novel. Bee, Harper, Lena and Jamie prevent Emmy’s world from revolving entirely around Colby, and their growing friendship gives her healing a credible social foundation. The spectral found family is equally memorable. Moll Dyer, Nuani and Askuwheteau draw upon Southern Maryland history and folklore, allowing the story to engage with colonisation, slavery, displacement and the ways unresolved violence continues to inhabit a place. Their histories are handled with evident care, and Nuani’s insistence upon his dignity and freedom gives the narrative some of its most powerful moments. The mystery eventually connects Colby and Emmy through a revelation that is both emotionally satisfying and thematically consistent with the book’s larger interest in what the dead leave within the living.
The novel’s generous emotional detail occasionally becomes repetitive. Emmy and Colby revisit the impossibility of their relationship several times, while the developing tension involving Jamie extends beyond the point at which its purpose is already apparent. Some internal reflections and conversations could be condensed, particularly through the middle, to sharpen the historical investigation and allow the most significant revelations greater force. I also found that a late epilogue revelation slightly softened the catharsis of an earlier farewell; preserving more of that emotional finality would have made the conclusion even more affecting.
Nevertheless, Meet Me in the Graveyard is tender, witty and emotionally ambitious, with far more on its mind than the novelty of a living woman falling in love with a ghost. It considers how grief changes shape without disappearing, how survival can bring its own burdens, and how letting go does not require us to abandon love or memory. Readers who enjoy character-driven paranormal romance, university settings, local folklore, found family and stories capable of balancing humour with genuine heartbreak will find much to cherish here.
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