4.6 (104 ratings)

Better Get to Livin’ (An Ellery Novel Book 3)

Name: Better Get to Livin’ (An Ellery Novel Book 3)
Rating: 4.6 (104 reviews)
Author: Sally Kilpatrick
ISBN: B0D7WX4YFC

by Sally Kilpatrick

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About this book

From USA Today bestselling author Sally Kilpatrick comes a touching laugh-out-loud story of ghosts of the past and hope for the future…

Presley Cline turns heads and stops clocks. The prettiest girl in town, she ran off to Hollywood only to find Tinsel Town is full of the prettiest girls from hundreds of small towns—and their ghosts. Since Presley can commune with the dead, she would know. Not that she can tell anyone.

Declan Anderson is dead tired of the funeral business. He has other dreams, modest they may be, but he’s never been able to leave town like Presley did. He’s burned out and stuck in a rut. Then Presley shows up with her cosmetology case.

A few folks in the funeral home—one living, many dead—now know Presley’s secret. Will the meddling of the dearly departed help both her and Dec to follow their own dreams? Or will long lost secrets and a slew of unmet dying wishes keep them from truly living?

Publication Date: May 25, 2026
ASIN: B0D7WX4YFC

Reader Reviews

Lovely -- and funny -- small town romance

August 21, 2016

Sally Kilpatrick returns to the small town of Ellery, Tennessee, in her third novel, Better Get To Livin’, the story of two people who have more in common than might appear at first glance. Presley Ann Cline (who is grateful that her train wreck of a mother didn’t name her Elvis) has had a very modest success in Hollywood (bit parts and commercials), so modest that she used her spare time to go to cosmetology school. But after a very embarrassing photo of her hits the papers (and the Internet),...

A unique romance

December 18, 2018

Although an Ellery novel, this series is made up of freestanding novels. There are fleeting references to people, places and events from previous novels, but almost like insider references than building events. I don't usually care for supernatural stories, but even though ghosts are an integral part of the story, the ghosts feel \"organic\". Told from an alternating POV of Declan and Presley, this book is set in a funeral home, filled with death and ghosts. Despite these elements, this book is...

Fun Read

April 23, 2017

I usually do not like any book with supernatural elements but this was a fun read. )

Headed to Ellery

November 2, 2017

If anyone is looking for me in the next few weeks I will be busy packing for an extended visit to Ellery, Tennessee! Sally Kilpatrick has created a town of lovable, sometimes zany but always entertaining characters. I want to live there among them, but since the only way to get there is through her books I will reading every last word of her Ellery novels. After I finished the book, I found out I didn’t read the first but the way Ms Kilpatrick wrote the book I didn’t feel I was walking into the...

Pretty good book

March 28, 2021

I feel like the premise of this book was a little fresh mix Of themes have a bunch of different books.I enjoyed the descriptions of the characters and their interactions with each other.Overall, I really did enjoy this book and it was a quick read )