Haunting Hearts (Livia J Washburn) Books in Order

Washburn’s Haunting Hearts entry, Spirit Catcher, sits in the paranormal romance corner of her work, where love stories meet restless spirits and old secrets. This is not one of her long mystery series. It is a self-contained supernatural romance, which makes the page especially handy if you want to sample a different side of her writing without committing to a long run of books.

The promise of a Haunting Hearts novel is right there in the name. You are meant to expect emotion, atmosphere, and at least one touch of the uncanny. In Washburn’s hands, that usually means a grounded story first, then the strange element slipping in beside it. The supernatural is not there just for decoration. It changes what the characters fear, what they want, and what they are willing to believe.

That gives Spirit Catcher a different feel from her cozies and western mysteries.

Instead of an amateur sleuth picking through clues, you get a romance shaped by mystery and by the possibility that the dead may not be finished with the living. The tone is more intimate, more emotional, and a little more dreamlike, while still staying readable and direct.

If you like ghostly romance that leans toward story rather than heavy myth-building, this page is a good place to start. It shows how comfortably Washburn could shift from small-town murder and western action into haunted love stories without losing her sense of plot.