Carolyn Ridder Aspenson Books in Order

Journalist Jessica Holland approaches Christmas disillusioned after a breakup, until a friend persuades her to visit a mall Santa. Challenging his promise to grant her wish, she asks for true love and discovers the season may hold an unexpected possibility.

Angela Panther’s forgotten ability to speak with the dead returns after her mother dies. While spirits seek help resolving their unfinished business, her mother refuses to move on, concealing a reason that may change Angela’s understanding of their relationship.

Hurt by her former boyfriend’s impending marriage, Carly retreats to a bed-and-breakfast in the North Georgia mountains. An immediate connection with musician Ben offers hope, but discovering who he really is may threaten the feelings she has begun to trust.

Angela’s rejected psychic gift disappears, leaving her to decipher confusing messages from the dead. Helping a friend investigate an unfaithful husband brings urgent communications from an unknown spirit and a choice that could hurt Angela’s own family.

Psychic medium Angela Panther joins her best friend Mel and her deceased mother Fran to help a lost elf get home. Their unusual holiday mission brings the living and the spirit world together in a short Christmas mystery.

Dreams draw Angela Panther to an eerie mansion where restless spirits need her help. Accompanied by Mel and her ghostly mother Fran, she explores the estate, only to discover a darker presence behind the hauntings she came to resolve.

Angela Panther’s hopes for a quiet day collapse when a drunken ghost draws her into a search for a missing boy. Mobsters, witness protection and hidden money complicate the investigation, leaving her to untangle dangerous clues from unreliable supernatural testimony.

Psychic medium Angela Panther helps investigate an unidentified teenager’s death after he falls from an overpass. His ghost cannot remember what happened, and following his fragmented concerns pulls Angela and her best friend into dangerous corners of Atlanta.

A disturbing emergency call leaves police unsure whether a crime has occurred, but psychic medium Angela Panther believes a young mother is dead. With help from her best friend and her mother’s spirit, she pursues a truth the clues seem to contradict.

Realtor Lily Sprayberry promises to sell a difficult client’s home, then finds the woman murdered. Determined to honor the agreement and identify the killer, she must work around the new sheriff, who happens to be her former boyfriend.

A death during Lily Sprayberry’s decluttering and staging class makes the investigation deeply personal. Despite objections from the sheriff she has loved since childhood, Lily follows her loyalty to a friend into a search that could put her in danger.

Lily and her friends prepare for Bramblett County’s Christmas parade until a dead elf appears in a café freezer. When gifts for local children also disappear, the women investigate a mystery threatening to ruin the town’s celebration.

Still recovering from a brush with death, Angela Panther is helping plan her best friend’s St. Patrick’s Day wedding when a leprechaun appears. Unsure what the apparition means, she braces for another unexpected message from the supernatural world.

Lily Sprayberry joins her friends at a fall festival, where a haunted corn maze promises harmless scares. Beheaded scarecrows and what appears to be real blood suggest something more serious, drawing her deeper into the maze in search of answers.

Angela Panther is used to helping the dead resolve unfinished business, but her connection to the afterlife becomes alarmingly personal. When the boundary between life and death shifts, the psychic medium must question whether she is still alive herself.

Lily agrees to sell a deceased friend’s townhouse to support a scholarship fund, but someone is determined to prevent the sale. As sabotage threatens her reputation, she investigates the interference while trying to honor her promise to her friend.

After an accident leaves Chantilly Adair able to see ghosts, a restaurant owner’s murder puts her under suspicion. She must seek help from the spirit haunting his building and solve an older death to uncover the person responsible.

Chantilly Adair’s reunion with her best friend is interrupted by a bag of cash and the friend’s dead husband. To clear her friend of murder, she investigates while trying to keep her ability to communicate with ghosts hidden from a detective.

Missy Kingston brings her shelter’s dog program to a charity gala, only for a major donor to be murdered. When a friend falls under suspicion, she investigates a world of money and influence where the killer wants certain questions left unanswered.

A valuable coin collection vanishes from Lily’s open-house listing, leaving a riddle about a decades-old murder. To recover what she promised to protect, she follows the clues toward an unexpected suspect uncomfortably close to her own life.

Animal-shelter volunteer Missy Kingston hopes a fall festival will find homes for her dogs, but discovers the organizer’s body among the pumpkins. Fearing the murder threatens the shelter itself, she investigates despite the danger of attracting the killer’s attention.

While seeking historic status for a church, Chantilly Adair discovers a body and a mystery tied to an old fire. Uncooperative spirits offer cryptic guidance, but someone determined to protect the building’s secrets wants her investigation stopped.

A rival realtor’s body appears in Lily’s new listing just a week before her destination wedding. With the case threatening to postpone the ceremony, she investigates on her own, attracting a killer who knows her reputation for solving crimes.

When Lily’s client, a newly hired high-school lacrosse coach, is murdered, the parents around his team become potential suspects. Determined to identify the killer, she steps into a competitive community where being the newcomer has proved fatal.

Lily finds another agent bound inside a new home and fears her own client may be responsible. Dissatisfied with the police response, she investigates a web of rivalry and deception that could leave her trapped alongside the people she suspects.

A death threatens Bramblett County’s preparations for Christmas, leaving Lily Sprayberry with another mystery to solve. As the town waits for its annual celebrations, she must uncover what happened before tragedy overshadows the holiday for everyone.

Angela Panther’s deceased first love needs help saving someone still alive and refuses to leave until she agrees. Returning to her home state, she must persuade an unwilling skeptic before time runs out and her ghostly ex becomes a permanent companion.

When dogs begin disappearing and an owner is murdered, shelter manager Missy Kingston suspects a connection to local dogfighting. Already battling a proposed breed ban, she risks her own safety to protect the animals and uncover the person behind the crimes.

Lily’s promise to avoid dangerous investigations falters when she finds a prospective client dead with the woman’s son standing over her. While pursuing answers, she also tries to repair a feud between friends, testing both her judgment and her safety.

A ghost haunting the lacrosse grounds brings Chantilly Adair fragments of information about a missing player, her son’s best friend. Deciphering his messages becomes urgent when the danger draws closer to her own family and the living offer few answers.

Chantilly Adair organizes a Halloween historical tour, only to find her own home crowded with spirits demanding urgent help. Still learning to manage her unusual abilities, she must discover what they need before their deadline endangers her life.

After her mother dies, mystery writer Abby Odell discovers she is a witch and that Holiday Hills hides a supernatural community. When newly discovered relatives are murdered, she and her talking-cat familiar must investigate before the killer reaches her.

Abby Odell’s fictional mysteries begin happening in real life, placing her in the dangers she invented for her heroine. With help from her talking-cat familiar, the witch and ghostwriter must discover who cast the spell before her own plot kills her.

A real-estate assistant who can see ghosts must solve a spirit’s mysterious death before she can sell her client’s haunted home. The assignment becomes urgent when the unsettled ghost’s past threatens other lives as well as her much-needed commission.

Newly arrived detective Rachel Ryder doubts the suicide ruling on a local politician’s death during a congressional campaign. With her reluctant partner Rob Bishop, she follows evidence the rest of the department wants left alone before another person dies.

Chantilly Adair’s former school bully returns as a ghost demanding that she solve his murder. Helping him stirs painful memories, and what first seems an unwelcome haunting becomes a dangerous investigation with a living killer still at large.

What begins as an overdose investigation reveals disturbing clues that seem aimed at detective Rachel Ryder. As more bodies appear, she suspects someone from her past is seeking revenge, but her increasingly personal pursuit threatens both the case and those around her.

A series of teenage deaths sends Rachel Ryder undercover as a high-school counselor in a drug investigation. When the operation erupts in violence, she must expose the secrets behind the killings while protecting students and people close to her.

Witch Alyssa Grey receives an unexpected promotion showing haunted homes and discovers she can see their ghosts. When an apparition resembling her boss’s dead partner demands she solve a murder, Alyssa must learn whom to trust before her time runs out.

A dying woman asks Angela Panther to discover what happened to her daughter, who vanished after high school graduation decades earlier. The psychic medium digs into the missing teenager’s past, hoping to uncover the truth before a final chance at reunion disappears.

Unexplained magical events threaten to expose Holiday Hills’ supernatural residents to their human neighbors. Abby Odell must discover who is causing the disturbances before fear turns the town against its witches and destroys the community she has come to love.

The murder of an unpopular witch unsettles Holiday Hills, where breaking magical rules could put everyone at risk. Abby Odell and her familiar help investigate, seeking the motive and culprit before the danger spreads beyond its first victim.

A body found near a suspicious fire bears a puzzling numerical clue and evidence of murder. Rachel Ryder and Rob Bishop seek help identifying the killer’s pattern, only to become players in a deadly game that points toward more victims.

A surgeon is found dead beside a woman first believed to be his wife, while his actual wife and son are missing. Rachel Ryder and Rob Bishop must untangle the lives of identical twins before the remaining family members disappear for good.

A dead man’s confession gives Chantilly Adair a chance to clear someone wrongly convicted, but ghostly testimony cannot satisfy the police. As she seeks tangible proof, a new murder suggests someone will kill to keep the old crime buried.

Abby Odell hopes to continue her late mother’s festival tradition, but a volunteer’s murder threatens the event and its library fundraiser. With the police chief away, she and her talking cat investigate while an unhelpful deputy complicates their efforts.

Vandalism threatens a retirement community’s Christmas celebration, and its hostile manager is ready to cancel everything. Residents turn to Angela Panther for help, but the psychic medium must identify unsettling intruders before the holiday gathering and its spirit are lost.

When her best friend’s unfaithful ex-husband appears as a ghost, Angela Panther reluctantly agrees to investigate his murder so he can move on. Solving the case requires help from the very woman he betrayed, making an already awkward assignment considerably harder.

Angela Panther’s best friend’s daughter is jailed for murder and asks for help without involving her mother. Angela and her own mother’s spirit pursue the real killer, but clearing a loved one’s name means confronting danger and breaking a few rules.

Holiday Hills is preparing for Christmas when Santa’s messengers reveal that his list has been stolen and hidden in town. Abby Odell and her cat familiar Cooper must recover it before the missing list prevents the holiday from happening.

A magical potion disappears while usually grumpy supernatural residents become strangely cheerful. Asked to recover the missing elixir, Abby Odell and her cat Cooper follow clues through Holiday Hills before its unusual effects create a larger problem.

A visiting chef is murdered during Holiday Hills’ culinary competition, and Abby Odell investigates when her friend Bessie becomes involved. Sabotage, cryptic threats, and another friend’s magical crisis complicate her search for the killer.

A town-wide hex leaves Holiday Hills’ witches and other magical residents behaving unpredictably. When one of Abby Odell’s suspects turns up dead, she and her talking cat must solve both the murder and the spreading magical disorder.

A reporter discovers Holiday Hills’ magical secret and is soon found dead in the lake. Abby Odell believes the accused shapeshifter is innocent, but proving it means navigating a frightened community desperate to protect its hidden world.

The enchanted music sheets for Bessie’s annual Christmas carol night disappear, threatening a treasured Holiday Hills tradition. Abby, her cat Cooper, and their friends follow the clues to recover the songs before the celebration falls silent.

Home invasions in a wealthy golf community escalate from theft to murder, bringing Rachel Ryder and Rob Bishop onto the case. Their search for the attacker exposes scandals residents are determined to hide behind their guarded homes and social standing.

Holiday Hills’ psychic predicts his own death, and Abby’s cat Cooper foresees the same fate. When the prediction comes true and Stella becomes the prime suspect, Abby must clear her friend before another warning turns into reality.

New realtor Lily Sprayberry and her longtime friend Belle launch a business in Bramblett County, Georgia. When trouble intrudes, Lily must divide her attention between serving clients and an unexpected investigation that begins her career as an amateur sleuth.

A wealthy recluse is murdered while five other people are inside his mansion. Rachel Ryder and Rob Bishop keep everyone under the same roof as they investigate, but sorting through motives means remaining trapped with a killer who could strike again.

A woman’s murder on an exclusive golf course recalls clues from a serial-killing case Rachel Ryder thought resolved. As she and Rob Bishop investigate possible copycat crimes, a missing colleague raises the stakes of a trap built around her past.

After an uneasy reunion, someone from Rachel Ryder’s past sends a desperate message and is found dead beside his baby. His apparent overdose leads her into secret dealings and mounting violence that threaten people close to her.

Esme moves to magical Stardust Springs to care for her aging great-aunt, only to find a witch murdered during Halloween festivities. When police suspect Aunt Ezzie, Esme must navigate local secrets and clear her name.

A notorious witch is murdered, leaving a note that points toward someone known only as Miss Goody Witch Shoes. A second death convinces Abby Odell that a serial killer is stalking Holiday Hills’ magical community.

When Bessie’s ancestral wand disappears, she threatens to sell the beloved Enchanted Bookstore and Café. Abby and her talking cat investigate, but a suspect’s murder transforms the search into a race to protect both their friend and themselves.

A discredited health inspector is found dead after angering Holiday Hills’ business owners. Abby investigates the attempt to frame a local baker, questioning whether she was merely a convenient suspect or the killer’s true intended target.

After Lily recommends a repairman to a difficult homeowner, the man is killed and her referral becomes the prime suspect. Convinced of his innocence despite her sheriff husband’s objections, she investigates and draws the attention of dangerous men.

Abby Odell’s former boyfriend disappears, and she suspects someone in Holiday Hills knows what happened. With her talking cat’s help, she investigates a mystery that threatens to entangle her romantic life with dangerous magical secrets.

Lily’s biggest potential listing turns disastrous when she discovers a rival agent dead among the roses. With her fingerprints on the weapon and a baby to care for, she must clear her name before the case destroys both her family’s careers.

A woman who vanished from Castleberry decades earlier returns as a ghost and asks Chantilly Adair for justice. With her detective husband, Chantilly reopens a disappearance long dismissed as voluntary and confronts the secrets that allowed a killer to escape.

A young witch dies while serving drinks at the Enchanted Bookstore and Café, shattering Abby’s familiar refuge. Investigating with her friends and familiars, she uncovers troubling connections involving love potions, old grievances, and hidden motives.

A missing young woman is found buried above the remains of another woman who vanished decades earlier from the same summer fair. Rachel Ryder and Rob Bishop investigate the connection, uncovering old secrets while a new threat approaches their families.

When a rival bookseller accuses Bessie of sabotage, Holiday Hills fills with rumors. An explosion and the man’s subsequent death make matters worse, leaving Abby and her companions determined to clear Bessie and identify the culprit.

Abby discovers a controversial spell-breaker murdered beside a cryptic note. With dark magic spreading through Holiday Hills, she and her friends must determine who wanted the witch dead before the danger reaches someone else.

At Holiday Hills’ Magical Market, Abby’s talking cat discovers an unpopular resident turned to stone. With numerous people holding grudges, Abby follows magical clues alongside her police-chief boyfriend to identify the culprit before another attack.

Malicious spells disrupt Christmas throughout Holiday Hills, and suspicion falls on a recent arrival. When a close friend suffers a dangerous hex, Abby joins an unusual magical ally to uncover who is sabotaging the town’s celebrations.

At the funeral of her husband’s former business partner, Angela Panther hears the dead man insist he was murdered. Helping his spirit find peace becomes a personal challenge when the investigation begins to cast suspicion on her own husband.

The death of a man responsible for maintaining Holiday Hills’ pact between humans and magical residents threatens the whole community. Abby investigates poisoned books, unstable alliances, and dark magic before the agreement unravels completely.

A powerful spell book disappears from the Enchanted Bookstore and Café, putting Holiday Hills at risk. Abby and her outspoken cat Cooper work with an unexpectedly helpful detective to find the thief before the stolen magic is misused.

An obsessive fan arrives in Holiday Hills claiming to know Abby is a real witch and exposing other residents’ secrets. When the visitor is murdered, Abby must untangle the case while protecting her community from discovery.

A body discovered during an estate sale transforms Lily’s Victorian-house listing into a murder investigation. While her sheriff husband suspects an accident, she follows family feuds, secretive neighbors and rival agents toward a killer determined to stay hidden.

A note asks Rachel Ryder to solve a former baseball star’s murder before he has even died. When the warning becomes reality, she and Rob Bishop uncover troubling connections among his public ambitions, private relationships and criminal activity.

A local bachelor dies and refuses to speak even to psychic medium Chantilly Adair. With her husband investigating officially, she must overcome silence from both ghosts and townspeople to uncover the dealings that made the dead man someone’s target.

A mother’s search for a missing child draws private investigator Jenna Wyatt into a case that echoes her own sister’s disappearance. Working with former NCIS investigator Jack Parks, she uncovers a pattern of abductions tied to long-hidden secrets in Atlanta.

The murder of a popular vampire leaves his cousin Bianca devastated and Holiday Hills full of questions. Abby, Stella, and their familiars investigate the apparently well-liked victim’s past while trying to support their grieving friend.

A farmhouse showing ends with the property in flames and Lily’s client dead inside. When police suspect the victim’s wife, Lily agrees to help clear her name, uncovering old grudges and secrets that make her own investigation increasingly dangerous.

Jenna Wyatt reluctantly investigates when an estranged friend is charged with murdering a major client. Alongside Jack Parks, she uncovers insurance fraud, silenced whistleblowers, and threats that make her question both the accused woman’s innocence and her own judgment.

A local witch dies shortly after sharing a potentially transformative secret with Abby. Suspecting murder, Abby and Cooper pursue answers, only to discover that more members of Holiday Hills’ magical community wanted the victim silenced.

An antique mirror brings a hostile spirit to the Castleberry Historical Society and pulls Chantilly Adair into a dangerous investigation. As she and her police-chief husband confront the town’s past, the haunting threatens to claim another life.

A witch’s familiar attacks its owner and disappears, then behaves as though possessed when Abby finds it. After the witch turns up dead, Abby must determine whether the creature is a victim, a suspect, or something more dangerous.

Lily and Belle organize summer events to fund improvements to the town dog park, but malicious reviews undermine local businesses. When a sponsor dies during a home closing, Lily must identify the culprit before suspicion and sabotage destroy their plans.

Threats against a member of an exclusive businesswomen’s group turn deadly when another member is murdered. Rachel Ryder and Rob Bishop investigate former spouses, professional rivals and the secrets that threaten the solidarity these women built after divorce.

Cooper’s curiosity traps Abby inside a magical snow globe during Christmas preparations. Enjoying his temporary freedom, the talking cat delays admitting what happened, until the risk of the globe being given away makes rescue urgent.

Selling Bramblett County’s old bowling alley becomes a murder case when its manager is found dead in his office. As Lily investigates, the victim’s friendly reputation unravels and buried secrets suggest someone is determined to stop the sale.

Stardust Springs’ enchanted Wishing Sphere vanishes just before its New Year’s countdown, taking the town’s accumulated wishes with it. Esme and her snake familiar investigate a suspicious luck merchant and other secrets before midnight arrives.

Murders at Atlanta landmarks lead private investigator Jenna Wyatt toward her partner Jack Parks’s past. As cryptic messages connect the victims to him, she must decide whether to trust Jack while a killer turns their investigation into a personal reckoning.

When a visiting witch reports her familiar missing, Cooper takes charge of the investigation before Abby can begin. Following suspicious spellwork through Holiday Hills, the talking cat discovers a scheme exploiting magical companions for someone else’s gain.

A hex scrambles the children’s wishes at Holiday Hills’ enchanted Christmas listening post. With the faulty magic spreading and North Pole investigators arriving, Abby must catch the culprit before Christmas Eve ends and Santa’s visit becomes impossible.

Stolen ceremonial hats and a gnome’s murder threaten to start a conflict with Holiday Hills’ trolls. Abby tries to mediate and investigate, but the gnomes refuse to speak to witches while accusing their neighbors without evidence.

A historical-society volunteer appears to Chantilly Adair as a ghost soon after an apparent heart attack. An unexpected inventory tag, questionable donations and troubled fundraiser accounts lead Chantilly to suspect a death the authorities have already accepted as natural.

Photographs of unidentified corpses lead Rachel Ryder and Rob Bishop into a baffling investigation. When bodies begin appearing in suitcases and a message names Rachel as a future victim, she must expose the killer before their countdown reaches her.