Sarah Adler follows up her debut novel MRS. NASH'S ASHES with an even better book. In the newest release HAPPY MEDIUM, Gretchen Acorn is an ethical con artist.  She spends her days as a (fake) Spirit Medium to the wealthy and elite in Washington, DC but with a moral compass.  Her number one rule is that she only takes people's money if she's certain she can leave them better off than she found them.  Her best paying client appears to be sufficiently healed after numerous "talks" with her recently deceased daughter.  Just as Gretchen is building up to telling Mrs. Easterly that the link to the spirit world is quiet, Mrs. Easterly hires and pays for Gretchen to cleanse the Gilded Creek Goat Farm of ghosts for her bridge partner, Charles Waybill, so he can sell the property.   Upon arriving in rural Maryland, Gretchen is shocked when she finds not an elderly bridge partner but young, sexy Charlie and a real ghost that she can see and converse with at the farm. Charlie wants nothing to do with her and throws her off the property.  The chatty ghost Everett explains the curse that says death will occur for any Waybill that leaves the farm without a Waybill left to live there. He has been watching the family since his death almost one hundred years ago.  Grechen agrees to stay so she can try to get Charlie not to sell and save his life.  Gretchen strikes a deal with Charlie to work at the farm for a month for room and board in exchange for trying to convince Charlie of the reality of the curse so he won't sell the farm.  If she loses, she has to return  all the money she received from Mrs. Easterly.  As the month progresses, Gretchen and Charlie grow closer by working together to turn around the financially struggling farm and finally realize where they both belong. A sweet book with interesting characters and a little bit of fantasy that doesn't distract from the plot.