Crazy Spooky Love: A Melody Bittersweet Novel

A plucky medium, her fame-chasing ex, and an infuriatingly handsome skeptic reporter make for a complicated love triangle--and that's before the ghosts get involved. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December comes the first novel in a ghost-hunting series full of romance and humor.

Ghosts and spirits are business as usual, but love just might be enough to scare Melody Bittersweet.

In the leafy, charming town of Chapelwick, the Bittersweet family has been a fixture on High Street for as long as anyone can remember. Their rambling black-and-white building houses all three generations of ghost-sensitive Bittersweet women and their business, Blithe Spirits.

On her twenty-seventh birthday, Melody Bittersweet converts the disused back storeroom into her office and opens her own business. Unlike the rest of her family, she's not taking down messages from ghosts--she's taking them out.

Right away, the freshly minted Girls' Ghostbusting Agency takes on its first case: a grand old house that won't sell because a trio of incumbent ghost brothers raise merry hell whenever prospective owners arrive to view it.

It soon becomes clear that there's a whole heap of unfinished business between the Scarborough brothers--including murder--and Melody isn't the only one trying to unravel the mystery. Leo Dark, her rakish ex and business rival, is also on the case, along with the TV crew that trails him.

To make matters worse, the sarcastic and skeptical (and annoyingly good-looking) local reporter Fletcher Gunn has his nose in the story as well. Sniffing out a way to publicly discredit the Bittersweets is his favorite assignment--and has absolutely nothing to do with his inability to resist Melody.

With her business on the line, it's up to Melody to work out the brothers' issues, but can she protect her own very susceptible heart from Fletcher's charm? Does she even want to?

Author: Josie Silver
Publisher: Dell
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.32w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9780593983003


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2025

About the Author
Josie Silver is a writer of love stories. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December, which has been published in more than twenty-five languages, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird, A Winter in New York, and Slow Burn Summer. She lives in the UK with her husband, their sons, and an ever-changing cast of animals.