Two people haunted by their exes find that love isn’t dead in this heartfelt romance from the beloved authors of The Roughest Draft.
Morgan is being ghosted by her ex. No, really. It’s sad Zach died and became a ghost. But Morgan and Zach only ever went on the one date, and now she’s being haunted by him. Zach has no desire to spend eternity with Morgan, but he can’t recall his past and doesn’t know how to move on.
At a support group for humans and their haunters, Morgan and Zach run into Sawyer, whose fiancée-turned-ghost has started to fade. Unlike Morgan, Sawyer isn’t ready to part ways with his ghost. Although they face opposite issues, Morgan and Sawyer decide to work together to solve their problems.
As Morgan and Sawyer try to solve their paranormal conundrums together, they find something even more surprising—a tender, growing affection between them that threatens any unfinished business they’re seeking to close. The ghosts of their past might be there in spirit, but the connection between Morgan and Sawyer is as alive as anything they’ve ever felt.
Morgan is being ghosted by her ex. No, really. It’s sad Zach died and became a ghost. But Morgan and Zach only ever went on the one date, and now she’s being haunted by him. Zach has no desire to spend eternity with Morgan, but he can’t recall his past and doesn’t know how to move on.
At a support group for humans and their haunters, Morgan and Zach run into Sawyer, whose fiancée-turned-ghost has started to fade. Unlike Morgan, Sawyer isn’t ready to part ways with his ghost. Although they face opposite issues, Morgan and Sawyer decide to work together to solve their problems.
As Morgan and Sawyer try to solve their paranormal conundrums together, they find something even more surprising—a tender, growing affection between them that threatens any unfinished business they’re seeking to close. The ghosts of their past might be there in spirit, but the connection between Morgan and Sawyer is as alive as anything they’ve ever felt.
Title: Seeing Other People
Author: Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Expected Publication Date: December 9, 2025
Review:
Thank you to Berkley Publishing Group and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this title to read and give my honest review. The opinions expressed here are my own.
I've enjoyed the books I've read by this duo so far. I was excited to see they branched out into a bit of the paranormal/speculative fiction with this one. I love a good ghost story.
Morgan and Sawyer are both being haunted. She by a guy she dated once and him by his fiancee who tragically died. When they meet in a support group for humans and their haunters, they decide they could help each of their respective ghosts move on if they work together. Being forced into close proximity only brings them closer until they realize they might just be falling for each other.
Morgan is not only haunted, but she carries the baggage of being left behind. She doesn't like to open herself up to people and often cuts relationships short and runs when things may get too heavy. As the story progresses she slowly learns it's ok to settle down and plant roots. To grow and change and let others in. Sawyer is burdened by the love of his dead fiancee. He can't seem to move past what they had to live his life again. He focuses on making his ghost happy, or what he thinks will make her happy. I was annoyed with Sawyer throughout most of this book. He was so weighed down weigh grief and wasn't allowing himself to heal. It was driving me bonkers. It's been 5 years since his fiancee passed and he's still wallowing in his own self pity. It's never easy to get over the loss of a loved one but I truly don't think a loved one would want you to put your life on hold indefinitely. It's obvious he doesn't listen to what his ghost is trying to tell him. What each of their haunters truly wants is to move on. But they, too, have baggage that needs to be settled before they can cross over.
I liked how the story involved just a bit of mystery to it. Morgan and Sawyer need to figure out why their ghosts are so attached to their world and what it is that needs to be solved before the haunters can pass over.
I did have a few issues with the growth of the characters in this book and the romance that bloomed. The chemistry just seemed off to me with the romance. I didn't truly believe they were falling for each other. There were some scenes that definitely showed the potential for this but they were cut short or didn't delve deep enough into the relationship to truly demonstrate why these two were thrown together. It just didn't capture me as I would have liked it to.
I did enjoy the supernatural elements the authors infused into the book. They helped keep the pacing and moved the plot along to where it needed to go.
All together this was a fun and fast read for me. It pulled on my heart strings in many places and dealt with some heaviness I wasn't expecting. But it also dealt with the joy that comes after growth through grief, which is never linear and always different for different people, was a nice touch. I will continue to read stories from this author duo in the future as they dole out some pretty good life lessons for their readers!
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Authors:
Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka met and fell in love in high school. Austin went on to graduate from Harvard, while Emily graduated from Princeton. Together, they are the authors of multiple novels including The Roughest Draft and Reese's YA Bookclub Pick Heiress Takes All. They are also two-thirds of USA Today bestselling author E.B. Asher. Now married, they live in Los Angeles, where they continue to take daily inspiration from their own love story.
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