Only Mostly Dead

Alli Temple

Oct 2024 · Afterlife Incorporated Book 1 · Allison Temple Books

About this ebook

No one tells you how much paperwork there is after you die.

I expected to wake up on a cloud where angels played harps and fed me grapes. Instead, I’m a ghost stuck in suburban Toronto. The only one who can see me is an unemployed grim reaper who'd rather be playing video games.

Turns out the business of dying is a train wreck. But if there was ever a girl boss who could get it back on track, it’s me. All I need is a little help from my new roommate, whether they want to be involved or not.

Nothing at Afterlife Incorporated moves quickly and if I don’t find a way out soon there won’t be anything left of me to cross over. They say death can be easy, but being only mostly dead sucks.

Only Mostly Dead is the first installment in the Afterlife Incorporated urban fantasy trilogy. It features a slow—so slow—burn romance that may take several books to resolve. Be patient. Death is coming…eventually.

Ratings and reviews

A simple mixup (month/date/year vs date/month/year) lands Ember in the strange world between life and the afterlife. We follow this dead Life Coach (afterlife coach?) as she tries to make it to Afterlife. She makes her way from the hospital where she died of cancer to the home of a medium who can hear her, and a reaper who doesn’t want to help her cross over. As she tries to get to Afterlife, we learn some pretty terrible things about it and how it’s run. It’s a barely functioning bureaucracy.

About the author

Alli lives in Toronto with her very patient husband and the world’s cutest team of rescue pets. She tries to split her time between writing, exploring Toronto’s parks, and traveling anywhere that has good wine. Tragically, this leaves no time to clean the house.

Alli writes contemporary queer romance as Allison Temple.