You’re Dead to Me

Expected Release Date: May 5, 2026
Genre: YA Supernatural Romcom
Publisher: Macmillan / Roaring Brook Press
Cover Artist: Jacqueline Li

A swoonworthy YA supernatural romcom where two academic rivals are trapped as ghosts to haunt the same house.

They’d kill each other…if they weren’t already dead.

Tessa Sinclair is a winner. Winner of spelling bees, science fairs, and scholarships. So when she finds herself unexpectedly dead in an abandoned mansion graduation party, she’s none too pleased. What’s worse, her academic rival—the Harvard-bound, Mr. Perfect Reed Walker—is there too, deceased, smug, and annoying as hell. Being a ghost is hard enough, but it’s a thousand times worse having to haunt the same house with your nemesis. But as Tessa and Reed retreat to R.I.P in their respective corners of the mansion, a mystery begins to unfurl about the exact cause of their deaths. Though they’d rather die (again) than work together, they’ll need to find a way to overcome their differences in order to hunt down a murderer on the loose. And should they happen to fall for each other along the way…Who ever said you can’t find love after death?

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Gwenyth Reitz was born in Sri Lanka, and has since lived and worked in California, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Japan, and Mongolia. When not intrepidly exploring she writes genre-blending YA stories with swoony romance, mystery, humor, and heart. Gwenyth now lives with her husband and two kids in New York City, where she can often be found scribbling late into the night on her rooftop like the caffeine-obsessed night-owl she is.

As a theater maker with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Gwenyth works for Lincoln Center Theater teaching acting and directing teens. For fun, she likes to sing Hamilton karaoke, maybe not well, but with gusto. YOU’RE DEAD TO ME, REED WALKER is her debut novel.

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