I Reside Here Books in Order

I Reside Here starts with a classic haunted-house problem and then turns it into something more like a locked-house mystery. Ruby's parents are missing, so she is sent to live with a relative in a mansion she barely knows. Almost immediately, the house tells her she is not welcome. A ghost girl lingers outside her bedroom. Closed-off sections are declared forbidden. Hidden closets and stray apparitions suggest that the building has rules of its own, and none of them are reassuring.

Arthur is part of what makes the series work.

He is the young boy already living in the house, and he seems to understand far more than Ruby does about the supernatural things moving through it. That gives the books a strong two-person rhythm. Ruby brings fear, stubbornness, and a growing need to understand what happened to her family. Arthur brings local knowledge, strange skills, and the kind of wary bravery that children in ghost stories often need before the adults around them catch up.

The first book is built around discovery. Ruby is trying to figure out who she can trust, what her relative Floyd was really doing, and whether the house is simply haunted or arranged in a more deliberate way. The sequel pushes deeper into that idea. Off-limits rooms open. The Forbidden Zone stops being just a rumor. Ruby begins working on powers of her own while she and Arthur learn that some doors may have been locked not to keep them out, but to keep something else in.

So yes, the house matters.

It is really the main setting, main mystery, and main source of pressure all at once. Richan uses the mansion the way some writers use a whole town. Every hall, room, and sealed area suggests another layer of history. That gives the series a tense, exploratory feel. The fear does not come only from jump scares or ghostly appearances. It comes from the sense that Floyd left behind plans, experiments, and unfinished work that are still moving forward even after his absence.

Compared with some of Richan's larger universe books, I Reside Here is more self-contained and more focused on young characters under siege. It still has the author's usual interest in gifts, hidden rules, and the practical work of facing the supernatural, but the tone is more intimate. If you like creepy mansions, young protagonists who have to grow up fast, and stories where the map of the house keeps changing the story, this is a very easy series to fall into.