Josie Silver, the New York Times bestselling author of ONE DAY IN DECEMBER and THE TWO LIVES OF LYDIA BIRD, kicks off her first series with CRAZY SPOOKY LOVE. This spellbinding, laugh-out-loud rom-com features Melody Bittersweet, a young woman who can see ghosts and communicate with them.

Melody is the latest in a long line of Bittersweet women to have “the gift” of seeing and communing with dead people. Or curse, which is how she sees it. Even beyond being the weird girl in school and in her family’s small town, Melody has become a bit disillusioned with ghosts and their unending wants and needs. She also has been turned off by the smothering effects of working in the family business --- Blithe Spirits --- with her lovelorn mother, Silvana, and feisty grandmother, Dicey (short for “Paradise,” of course).

Then there’s the family’s second legacy to consider. Every woman in the Bittersweet line has fallen in love with her soulmate and birthed her first baby at the age of 27. And 27-year-old Melody is definitely, devastatingly and despairingly single. Ever since her ex-boyfriend, Leo Dark --- a fellow ghost-seer --- unceremoniously dumped her in favor of finding fame as a psychic medium, her love life has been in… well, a rut would be putting it kindly.

"In [Silver's] most humorous, fun romance yet, she introduces a delightful heroine you will root for, fleshing out her cast with dazzling, hilarious supporting characters with their own wild and wacky storylines."

But despite the stifling Bittersweet name and legacy, Melody is a doer. So when we meet her, she has just decided to officially split from Blithe Spirits and start her own business as a ghost hunter. Unlike her mother and grandmother, who help customers hear from their lost loved ones one last time, Melody plans to tackle the ghosts who are more unwanted, the ones who haunt places and people because of unfinished business. Along with her best friend, sexy Sicilian Marina, Melody hires Artie, a sweet but naive young man recommended to her by (you guessed it) a ghost.

Thus the Girls’ Ghostbusting Agency is born, and they even have a Mystery Machine, lovingly named Babs, to cart them around to jobs.

With Leo cornering the market on ghost-hunting and -busting, Melody is lucky to stumble upon her first gig: the Scarborough mansion, a gorgeous, bespoke mansion currently owned by Donovan Scarborough, a man who doesn’t see family legacy in his inheritance, but dollar signs instead. He plans to sell the mansion and turn it into a nursing home. There’s just one --- well, three --- problems: Isaac and twins Lloyd and Douglas Scarborough, the three fractious ghosts haunting the abode. Upon meeting them, Melody learns that Douglas, a total knockout of a man --- ahem, ghost --- was murdered at only 21, and his big brother, Isaac, was accused of the crime.

Despite the lack of evidence, Isaac was effectively cast out of the family, while show-offy Lloyd stood to inherit everything without his other brothers there. The only problem is that Isaac and Lloyd swear they didn’t do it, and neither Douglas nor the two of them can move on until they find the real culprit. But three generations have come and gone, rooms have been redecorated, and family secrets lie buried in every nook and cranny of the behemoth home. 

Of course, ghosts are just one part of the problem. Donovan has hired Leo to help rid his home of his ghostly ancestors, and even Melody can’t help but admit that there’s something reassuring about Leo and his flashy camera crew and video vixens. But she has a lot more heart, plus a family history of dealing with ghosts. Unlike Leo, she’s not afraid to get to the bottom of the mystery, even if it means humoring the feisty brothers. They are all permanently stuck in the ages they were when they died, meaning that Melody isn’t just dealing with a dashing twenty-something who never got to live, but two cranky senior citizens as well.

Add to that intrepid reporter Fletcher Gunn (if there’s one thing Josie Silver can do, it’s name her characters!), a devout skeptic who has made it his life’s work to topple the Bittersweet empire and get the ladies to admit once and for all that ghosts are not real and that they’ve built their legacy swindling grieving old ladies. Oh, and in case you were wondering, just like Leo, Fletcher isn't just handsome, he's hot --- the kind of hot that makes Melody wonder if it’s just the ghosts haunting her and not thoughts of tearing off his shirt.

Three ghosts, one generations-old mystery, two love interests, and her own lovingly meddling family, and Melody has her hands more than full. But can she solve the mystery of the Scarborough family in time to make a name for her business, corner the ghost-hunting market before her ex, and maybe even find love?

If ghosts, love triangles and a family legacy sound like a lot to tackle in one spooky rom-com, then you don’t know Josie Silver. In her most humorous, fun romance yet, she introduces a delightful heroine you will root for, fleshing out her cast with dazzling, hilarious supporting characters with their own wild and wacky storylines.

Though CRAZY SPOOKY LOVE isn’t exactly spooky, readers will delight in solving the mystery of the Scarborough brothers right alongside Melody and her crew, and hilarious asides from the ghosts themselves keep their tragic tale refreshingly light. Fortunately, we won’t have to wait a lifetime (or afterlifetime) for the next installment. KOOKY SPOOKY LOVE releases on October 28th, just in time for Halloween!