Book Title: HAPPY MEDIUM
Character Name: Everett
How would you describe your family or your childhood?
Borrrrring. It was just farm work, sun up to sun down. Only time I had any fun was when I got to go to the pictures in town.
What was your greatest talent?
Besides charming ladies? Acting, of course! I was born for the silver screen.
Significant other?
I wasn’t one for going steady.
Biggest challenge in relationships?
Well, nowadays the fact that no one except Gretchen can see or hear me, and that I can’t make physical contact with anyone without temporarily disappearing. That definitely gets in the way of things.
Where do you live?
Gilded Creek Goat Farm. Forever and ever. Thanks a lot, Great Aunt Lucretia.
Do you have any enemies?
I mean, I wouldn’t have many nice things to say to Aunt Lucretia if she reappeared, that’s for sure. Also dead remote batteries. And that one goat that always stares at me funny. I don’t like her either.
How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place?
I am not particularly thrilled to be stuck here, although it’s certainly much better now that Gretchen is around. I suppose it’s not so much what I’m attached to as that a curse is attached to me.
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
I am friendly with most of the goats and cats and dogs here. They can sense me, I think. But I am blissfully not responsible for any other living creatures. Well, unless you count Charlie’s safety and well-being.
What do you do for a living?
I don’t.
Greatest disappointment?
Probably the curse that prevented me from getting to Hollywood and living out my dreams of being an actor.
Greatest source of joy?
Television! What a miracle invention! Have you seen Bridgerton??
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
Mostly I watch TV and monitor the progress of Gretchen and Charlie’s relationship.
What is your greatest personal failing, in your view?
Too handsome. It’s my other, less tragic curse.
What keeps you awake at night?
The fact that I’m physically unable to sleep.
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
Getting Charlie to take Gilded Creek Goat Farm off the market and stay here so that he won’t die and join me in haunting the property.
Is there something that you need or want that you don’t have? For yourself or for someone important to you?
Fame. It’s what I was owed in life.
Why don’t you have it? What is in the way?
Even if I could leave this farm and head out to Hollywood, the whole no one can see or hear me thing might make auditions challenging.
A clever con woman must convince a skeptical, sexy farmer of his property's resident real-life ghost if she's to save them all from a fate worse than death, in this delightful new novel from the author of Mrs. Nash's Ashes.
Fake spirit medium Gretchen Acorn is happy to help when her best (read: wealthiest) client hires her to investigate the unexplained phenomena preventing the sale of her bridge partner’s struggling goat farm. Gretchen may be a fraud, but she'd like to think she’s a beneficentone. So if "cleansing" the property will help a nice old man finally retire and put some much-needed cash in her pockets at the same time, who's she to say no?
Of course, it turns out said bridge partner isn't the kindly AARP member Gretchen imagined—Charlie Waybill is young, hot as hell, and extremely unconvinced that Gretchen can communicate with the dead. (Which, fair.) Except, to her surprise, Gretchen finds herself face-to-face with Everett: the very real, very chatty ghost that’s been wreaking havoc during every open house. And he wants her to help ensure Charlie avoids the same family curse that's had Everett haunting Gilded Creek since the 1920s.
Now, Gretchen has one month to convince Charlie he can’t sell the property. Unfortunately, hard work and honesty seem to be the way to win over the stubborn farmer—not exactly Gretchen's strengths. But trust isn’t the only thing growing between them, and the risk of losing Charlie to the spirit realm looms over Gretchen almost as annoyingly as Everett himself. To save the goat farm, its friendly phantom, and the man she's beginning to love, Gretchen will need to pull off the greatest con of her life: being fully, genuinely herself.
Romance Comedy | Romance Paranormal [Berkley, On Sale: April 30, 2024, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780593547816 / eISBN: 9780593547823]
Second Book Even Better Than Debut
Sarah Adler writes romantic comedies about lovable weirdos finding their happily ever afters. She lives in Maryland with her husband and daughter and spends an inordinate amount of her time yelling at her mischievous cat to stop opening the kitchen cabinets.
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