Better get to livin' / by Sally Kilpatrick.

Includes reading group guide.

Presley Cline has put aside her mothers' dreams of Hollywood stardom and come back to Ellery, Tennessee, to work in a beauty shop. A loving relationship and normal home life seem almost as unattainable as an Oscar: being able to see and speak to dead people certainly isn't helping. Presley's first job, beautifying "clients" at the Anderson Funeral Home, brings her in contact to dozens of ghosts all hoping that Presley can help them move on -- and also one very-much-alive owner, Declan Anderson. Like Presley, Declan is caught between following family expectations and his own aspirations. With a little meddling from loved ones and locals -- both living and dead -- they learn that life is too short not to be who you want to be.