Mood Reader in Scotland

Romance/Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Pub date: 8 October 2026

4/5 ⭐️

Summary:

A connection that’s more than supernatural emerges between two rival tour guides who wish they could ghost each other in this sparkling romantic comedy from USA Today bestselling author Mallory Marlowe.

Paranormal medium Rory Woods spends her days offering psychic readings at her family’s Ye Olde Spirit Shop and nights haunting the streets of Boston as a ghost tour guide. Sure, business at the shop could be better, but she’s proud of her work.

Enter Ezra Blackwell: noted thorn in Rory’s side, the shop’s resident horror history fanatic, and — though she’d only admit it under threat of medieval torture — a handsome, charismatic tour guide.

Rory can’t stand Ezra’s know-it-all, showoff behavior. Ezra loves to tease the gorgeous, uptight medium at the shop. And when the two are forced to run a tour together? It’s no wonder they disturb a matchmaking ghost who places a spell on them.

Saddled with perpetual bad luck unless they’re physically near one another, Rory and Ezra will try anything, from séances to kissing, before the jinx wreaks havoc on both their careers. But in their quest to appease the spirit, they realisee that growing closer might not be the curse they thought…

Review:

“Of course there is only one bed. Why would i ever think there’d be two? There’s never two.”

This has been my first venture with Mallory and what a delight that was! I will definitely be checking out the first one from the series.
The plot was interesting and fast moving, the characters relatable and the romance cute.
The MVPs of the story were definitely Clementine and Miss “there will be no miscommunication with me” Temperance.
The side characters were a bit two dimensional, the third act breakup unnecessary and the CORSET ON BARE SKIN scenes (we really should know better by now) frustrated the hell out of me.

(Disclaimer: my recent ARC streak has been pretty abysmal which might have caused an inflated score.)