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Life, Death, and Expiration Dates

Secrets can't stay hidden forever.

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Pub Date Nov 11 2025 | Archive Date Nov 14 2025


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Description

Sean tames his darkest secret with one simple rule.  

Never tell anyone the day they will die.  

At seventeen, Sean Ratcliffe chases high octane adventures and avoids messy human connections to escape the heavy weight of guilt. With simple eye contact, he sees the exact date of everyone’s death. When his parents vanish during a climbing expedition in Peru, Sean knows they can’t be dead. He searches for answers while navigating a new life with his aunt and a mysterious girl with the only expiration date he can’t see. 

With a suitcase full of secrets, Ava Kouris is on the run yet again, biding her time until she can break free from her mother. She’s spent her whole life juggling ghostly premonitions, her mother’s manipulations, and a best friend who’s unaware she died almost 70 years ago. 

When a shadow agency hijacks their lives, they realize that cooperating is the only way to protect their secrets and find information about Sean’s parents. As danger intensifies, the teens must untangle their feelings for each other and take charge of their lives, even if it means losing Sean’s parents forever.


Sean tames his darkest secret with one simple rule.  

Never tell anyone the day they will die.  

At seventeen, Sean Ratcliffe chases high octane adventures and avoids messy human connections to escape...


Advance Praise

The entry from Life, Death, and Expiration Dates won the 2024 Young Adult category for the CANSCAIP Writing for Children Competition.

The entry from Life, Death, and Expiration Dates won the 2024 Young Adult category for the CANSCAIP Writing for Children Competition.


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ISBN 9781069314215
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PAGES 295

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An absolutely stunning YA read! The plot was unique, the characters both strong and deeply likable, and the twists were twisting! Absolutely recommend this one to all the YA lovers!

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A Superb YA read. The author did an outstanding job on writing this multi perspective character novel. I find this read very intriguing as it smoothly switched through the perspectives of the two main characters and no lingering wordinesses. These two adolescences go through some life challenging struggles and yet hit with a curveball to make all matters worse. They take you through an exploit of thills and unexpected turns. I highly recommend this novel to YA and Readers who like a little bit more of a twist.
Thank you for this read. I look forward in reading more Novels from the author Michelle Hair.

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Sean and Ava have both moved to Vancouver under stressful circumstances. Almost immediately, they are recruited by a shady government agency. Why are these 17-year-olds being recruited by a shady government agency? Well Sean can see a person's date of death and Ava can see/communicate with ghosts. Now they're both pulled into a dangerous mission - surviving high school as the new kids. Oh and taking down the rising gang problem for the shady government agency.

This book is a great combination of everything I loved in books as a teen. Superhuman powers. Shady secret agencies. High octane stakes. Sassy supporting characters. Awkward teen tension.

I was suspicious of everyone (I usually am) and I loved Sean' and Ava's powers. Why is seeing ghosts such a timeless power? The macabre-ness pulls me in every time! I want to see more of them to see how they grow and how some of the unresolved things unfold. Based on the end, I REALLY hope we get another book!

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