BOOK #1

In Chapelwick, the Bittersweet family has been a fixture on High  Street for as long as anyone can remember. Their rambling building houses all three generations of ghost-sensitive Bittersweet women and their business, Blithe Spirits. On her twenty-seventh birthday, Melody Bittersweet converts the 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. To make matters worse, local reporter Fletcher Gunn has his nose in the story as well.