Haunted Souls Books in Order
Part ofPandora Pine Books in OrderFind the Haunted Souls books by Pandora Pine in order, with short summaries, series background, and an introduction to Jude and Cope’s ghost investigations.
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Haunted Souls books in publication order
12 books
Ghost House
by Pandora Pine
2019
A curator reports a haunting at Salem's Witch House, drawing Jude Byrne and Copeland Forbes into an investigation. Cope's sudden illness and a warlock's disappearance suggest something more dangerous than an ordinary restless spirit.
Ghost of a Chance
by Pandora Pine
2019
Two spirits invade Copeland Forbes's dreams, one seeking help and another threatening him. Returning to New Orleans for answers, he and Jude Byrne assemble allies to confront a mystery rooted in Cope's troubled past.
Ghost of Himself
by Pandora Pine
2019
A mysterious psychic arrives in Salem seeking private investigator Jude Byrne, bringing knowledge of secrets Jude hoped to bury. Copeland Forbes needs help with an unexplained illness, and a powerful enemy forces the men toward cooperation.
Ghost Pain
by Pandora Pine
2019
Recovering from a gunshot wound, Copeland Forbes investigates a man who claims his missing ex-boyfriend is haunting him. Jude Byrne worries about Cope's health as an elusive spirit and unexplained chest pains complicate the case.
Ghost Story
by Pandora Pine
2019
A teenager asks ghost detectives Jude Byrne and Copeland Forbes to investigate a woman in white who may be trying to kill him. The case challenges their partnership and growing attraction with a dangerous, uncooperative spirit.
Ghost Town
by Pandora Pine
2019
Jude Byrne and Copeland Forbes's Key West vacation becomes an investigation after a frightened radio caller describes a haunted hotel. Spending the night there draws them into the mysterious deaths of a cigar baron's family.
Ghost of a Memory
by Pandora Pine
2020
A vision sends Jude Byrne back to the Navajo reservation where he grew up to confront the skinwalker who killed his father. Copeland Forbes joins him, but unwelcome psychic gifts and elusive memories hinder their investigation.
Ghost Walk
by Pandora Pine
2020
A Salem ghost walk unsettles Copeland Forbes when he senses a vampire stirring inside a fortified tomb. After the creature escapes, he and Jude Byrne seek help while investigating the sinister plan surrounding its return.
Ghost Writer
by Pandora Pine
2020
Jude Byrne gives Copeland Forbes an antique typewriter for his birthday, unaware that Cope plans to write a memoir. When it produces hymn lyrics by itself, a hidden spirit offers clues to danger in Salem.
Ghost of Christmas Past
by Pandora Pine
2021
Days before Christmas, Copeland Forbes encounters the spirit of Jude Byrne's mother, who died during childbirth. Her request to make amends challenges Jude's belief that she cursed him and opens questions about his earliest family history.
Ghost Ship
by Pandora Pine
2021
Copeland Forbes is asked to help a Nova Scotia family haunted since the Titanic recovery efforts. Meanwhile, Jude Byrne helps a spirit find his lost lover, drawing both investigators into mysteries connected to the disaster.
Ghost of an Image
by Pandora Pine
2022
Copeland Forbes discovers a lost family artifact at an exhibition of Victorian spirit photography. When its dangerous spell breaks, a long-lost ancestor appears, drawing Cope and Jude into a struggle to stop a deadly family secret from escaping.
Series background & context
Haunted Souls combines romance between men with supernatural investigations in Salem, Massachusetts. Pandora Pine builds the series around private investigator Jude Byrne and psychic Copeland Forbes, usually called Cope. Their work brings them into contact with people whose problems cannot be explained by ordinary evidence alone. The relationship between the investigators matters alongside the hauntings, giving the books an ongoing personal story as well as individual cases.
For these partners, understanding the dead begins with learning to trust someone living.
The opening novel, Ghost of Himself, introduces two men carrying difficult histories. Jude has settled in Salem while trying to leave secrets from his earlier life behind him. Cope arrives from Louisiana after an attack by a former student has shaken his abilities and confidence. He seeks Jude's help, but the threat facing them calls for more than one man's skills. Dark magic turns their first encounter into a dangerous test of whether they can work together.
That starting point establishes a partnership built from different kinds of knowledge. Jude can investigate a location and uncover its history, while Cope can make contact with spirits. Neither approach replaces the other. The supernatural may be real in this world, but finding out who a ghost was and what it wants still takes patient inquiry. Salem gives the series a setting where the history of a place can become an immediate problem for its present occupants.
In Ghost Story, the pair are working as ghost detectives. Some spirits may be persuaded to share a home peacefully or move on, but their next client presents a much less comfortable situation. Teenager Xavier Lewis asks for help with a threatening woman in white. The case tests the assumption that communication will always make a haunting manageable. At the same time, Jude and Cope's attraction raises questions about how far their professional partnership can extend into their private lives.
The books offer a continuing couple rather than a fresh central romance in every installment, so reading from the beginning gives their changing bond more weight. Start with Ghost of Himself, followed by Ghost Story, Ghost Town, and Ghost House. The appeal lies in the combination of an investigative routine, unsettling encounters, and two people learning what they can depend on in each other. Readers can expect paranormal mystery with romantic development threaded through the cases. The ghosts bring immediate uncertainty, while Jude and Cope's shared history gives the longer series its emotional continuity and makes their next investigation feel connected to the ones before it.
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