“Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon” Gets a Sequel — Read a Sneak Peek! (Exclusive)

The highly anticipated sequel to Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon is almost here.

On March 17, 2026, Scribner will people How to Hold Someone successful Your Heart, which picks up 7 years aft its predecessor.

It follows a now-adult Ayumi, who is moving arsenic a artifact designer, and, conscionable for illustration successful nan first book, serves arsenic a "go-between" that reunites nan surviving and nan dead.

Ayumi has strict rules astir nan afloat satellite meetings he arranges betwixt souls who person passed and those they time off behind. This clip around, though, location are revisitations from aged clients, meetings pinch caller ones and moreover a emotion interest.

A synopsis explains that he assists 5 individuals, including "a rising movie prima who seeks closure pinch nan begetter who abandoned him; a passionate amateur historiographer longing to meet a forgotten sixteenth-century warlord and a erstwhile navigator whose repeated requests to sojourn an upper-class female successful nan afterlife person been denied — but who refuses to springiness up connected love."

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Below, publication an exclusive excerpt from How to Hold Someone successful Your Heart.

"Wake up."

The car approached nan Akiyama location and made a correct move astatine nan corner. Anna, who had been dormant successful nan rider seat, woke pinch a start, her notebook slipping retired of her arms. Ayumi replaced it. "Wake up, we’re almost home."

"I’m truthful sleepy," Anna grumbled. She pried her eyes open. ‘"sn’t it against nan rule to make a kid activity done nan night? I’m going to retrieve this, Ayumi. You beryllium maine large time."

"Aw, travel on, it was conscionable this once."

"Well, since you did get maine his autograph, I’ll forgive you. A little."

She happily patted nan notebook pinch Yuzuru’s autograph inside.

Ayumi sighed. "If you for illustration him truthful much, you should person conscionable asked him yourself. Got him to shingle your hand."

"No. The go-between can’t do that."

Anna was 8 this year. She was excessively aged to beryllium into superhero TV shows, but this play was different because a kid her property was successful nan main cast. The kids astatine schoolhouse each watched nan show each week.

"This was a typical case. I stepped successful to thief because you said nan customer was Yuzuru Kamiya, but I can’t do this each time, you know. Please do your ain job. The go-between is your responsibility."

"Yes, ma’am."

After nan decease of Ayumi’s awesome uncle Sadayuki, this small girl, Anna Akiyama, was named nan caller caput of nan family. Sadayuki had specified arsenic specified successful his will. Anna was his great-granddaughter and still a mini kid erstwhile he appointed her.

A fewer years aft that, Ayumi’s grandma passed away, but nan Akiyamas continued to dainty Ayumi arsenic 1 of their own. They supported him, some professionally and privately, arsenic had been his grandmother’s wish. And Anna had led nan way.

"But why couldn’t you return this lawsuit on?"

"It conscionable ... seemed complicated."

He’d been shocked to perceive nan petition connected nan phone.

Hi, my sanction is Yuzuru Kamiya, and I person a request, but it’s not really for me. It’s for a colleague, no, a friend. Her sanction is Misa Arashi, and she’s an actor. Have you heard of her? She mislaid her champion friend backmost successful precocious schoolhouse ...

He hadn’t heard nan sanction successful years. But not a time passed arsenic nan go-between erstwhile Ayumi didn’t deliberation astir Misa Arashi and her friend. The representation of them throbbed for illustration a splinter that had ne'er been removed.

Ayumi hadn’t seen Arashi since precocious school. They now lived successful different towns, and he’d assumed their paths would ne'er transverse again. Misa Arashi had already utilized up her 1 gathering to spot her champion friend. It was 1 of Ayumi’s very first cases arsenic nan go-between.

He could still retrieve her screaming.

Let maine go! Back to Misono, 1 much time. I conscionable request a second!

Yuzuru Kamiya had called to opportunity he wanted to make a petition connected her behalf, but Ayumi knew that Misa was retired of chances. Though of people he couldn’t show Yuzuru that.

"I’m gladsome though,’" Ayumi said. "It sounds for illustration she’s doing well."

He had seen immoderate of Arashi’s activity successful years past, and he kept an oculus retired for immoderate TV appearances.

"Hm," Anna nodded. "I dream things activity retired for them."

"Yeah."

"Hey, vapor trail!"

Anna pointed to nan brisk wintertime greeting sky, wherever a achromatic unreality stretched successful a bladed consecutive line. Ayumi cracked his model unfastened to fto immoderate aerial into nan heated car. A crisp chill pricked his skin.

He was astir to statesman his seventh outpouring arsenic nan go-between. Seven years had passed since he’d taken complete from his grandmother.

Excerpted from HOW TO HOLD SOMEONE IN YOUR HEART by Mizuki Tsujimura. Copyright © 2019 by Mizuki Tsujimura. English connection copyright © 2025 by Yuki Tejima. Reprinted by support of Scribner, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC.

How to Hold Someone In Your Heart will beryllium published connected March 17, 2026, and is disposable for preorder now wherever books are sold.