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Jaime Jo Wright Books in Order

Browse Jaime Jo Wright books in order, with quick summaries, stand-alone reading help, and easy tips on where to start with her gothic suspense novels.

Last updated: July 3, 2026

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19 books

The House on Foster Hill

by Jaime Jo Wright

2017

Widow Kaine buys an abandoned Wisconsin house for a fresh start, only to find its violent past waiting for her. A century earlier, Ivy investigates a woman's body found on the same property and uncovers danger close to home.

The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond

by Jaime Jo Wright

2018

Annalise inherits a dead man's trailer and the buried secrets plastered across its walls. A century earlier, Libby receives an obituary before the victim dies, drawing both women into a town reckoning shaped by guilt, grace, and murder.

Echoes Among the Stones

by Jaime Jo Wright

2019

After a career collapse, Aggie lands in Wisconsin helping restore a cemetery and stumbling into an old murder case her grandmother can't forget. In 1946, Imogene refuses to let her sister's death go cold, despite resistance from everyone around her.

The Curse of Misty Wayfair

by Jaime Jo Wright

2019

Thea searches a Wisconsin asylum for clues to her mother and stirs up the deadly legend of Misty Wayfair. A century later, Heidi follows a letter from her ailing mother into the same haunting questions about identity, memory, and survival.

The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus

by Jaime Jo Wright

2020

At Bonaventure Circus, Pippa hunts for the truth about her birth and finds a killer moving through the train. Decades later, realtor Chandler digs into the depot's history while juggling illness, single motherhood, and a mystery far darker than she expected.

On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor

by Jaime Jo Wright

2021

Sent to a Lake Superior manor to recover stolen Civil War loot, Adria finds a house full of secrets and danger. In the present, nurse's aide Kailey returns to the same place, where hidden memories and whispered legends refuse to stay buried.

The Premonition at Withers Farm

by Jaime Jo Wright

2022

In 1910 Michigan, healer Perliett and her spiritualist mother become targets in a growing murder mystery. In the present, Molly moves into an eerie farmhouse after repeated miscarriages and finds family history, strange sounds, and a century-old deception waiting inside.

The Souls of Lost Lake

by Jaime Jo Wright

2022

When a girl vanishes in Wisconsin's Northwoods, Wren joins the search and uncovers links to Ava Coons, a blood-spattered girl blamed for an old massacre. Across two timelines, rumor, grief, and violence close in fast.

The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater

by Jaime Jo Wright

2023

When boys begin disappearing around the Barlowe Theater, Greta risks everything to uncover the evil tied to its stage. In the present, Kit searches for a missing friend inside the same theater, where ghost stories and real danger blur together.

The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

by Jaime Jo Wright

2023

Orphan Daisy takes a job at a Wisconsin castle and walks into disappearances, legend, and a frightening mistress with secrets. In the present, Cleo helps clear the same crumbling estate and awakens a curse that never really slept.

Night Falls on Predicament Avenue

by Jaime Jo Wright

2024

Effie hunts the truth behind a shocking murder and a bloodstained house on Predicament Avenue. A century later, Norah runs a bed-and-breakfast there until a new death ties her family to the same old curse and forces answers.

Specters in the Glass House

by Jaime Jo Wright

2024

In 1921, Marian hides in her family's butterfly house as murders spread and strange visions grow harder to explain. In the present, researcher Remy follows an elderly biographer into the same legacy of secrets, broken wings, and serial violence.

Buried Wilderness Secrets

by Jaime Jo Wright

2025

Park ranger Aaliyah discovers a serial killer's burial ground in Montana and barely survives the attack that follows. When a detective reveals her birth mother may have been the killer's first victim, the case turns terrifyingly personal.

Tempest at Annabel's Lighthouse

by Jaime Jo Wright

2025

A battered woman wakes near Lake Superior with no memory and a dead woman's name haunting her steps. In the present, Shea retreats to a Michigan lighthouse and stumbles into murder, old legend, and truths her community tried to drown.

The Bell Tolls at Traeger Hall

by Jaime Jo Wright

2025

After murders rock Traeger Hall in 1890, orphan Waverly is left to untangle a will, a warning bell, and a house steeped in dread. In the present, Jennie inherits the same estate and learns the family's dark legacy isn't finished.

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Attempted Mountain Murder

by Jaime Jo Wright

2026

When a sniper blows Lainey Jo's witness protection cover, she dives into a stranger's car and straight into a manhunt. Former Navy SEAL Bowen becomes her only ally as they race through the Bighorn Mountains ahead of two killers.

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Love & Baseball

by Jaime Jo Wright

2026

Brielle uses AI to invent a fake boyfriend and quiet everyone's questions about her love life. Then a new baseball catcher shows up looking exactly like her made-up guy, and their pretend relationship starts getting very real.

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The Bookshop of 99 Doors

by Jaime Jo Wright

2026

In 1888, Minnie investigates a mansion shadowed by war, superstition, and the rumor of a murderous spirit. In the present, Triss takes a dream job in the house's bookshop, only to find paranormal chaos and a missing door tied to madness.

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The Resurrection of Evania James

by Jaime Jo Wright

2026

When Evania vanishes after entering an asylum in 1879, her sister Eloise uncovers dying patients, missing remains, and a grim black-market trade. In the present, Tilly finds human bones in a mansion wall and wakes the same buried evil.

Where should I start?

If you want the classic entry point: The House on Foster HillThe Reckoning at Gossamer PondThe Curse of Misty Wayfair
If you want peak Gothic atmosphere: The Vanishing at Castle MoreauThe Lost Boys of Barlowe TheaterNight Falls on Predicament Avenue
If you want newer haunted-place novels: Specters in the Glass HouseTempest at Annabel's LighthouseThe Bell Tolls at Traeger Hall
If you want a quicker contemporary suspense read: Buried Wilderness SecretsAttempted Mountain Murder
If you want something lighter and younger: Love & Baseball

Author bio

Jaime Jo Wright was born and raised in Wisconsin, and that state is all over her fiction. The woods, lake towns, old houses, and local legends in her books do not feel borrowed. They feel lived in.

She was homeschooled and fell in love with reading early. As a kid, she had room to roam through older, darker stories, and writers like Edgar Allan Poe clearly stayed with her. That mix of mystery, atmosphere, and history helped shape the kind of novelist she would become.

You can feel the Midwest in almost every page.

Wright built her name on dual-timeline Gothic suspense, where a mystery in the past presses hard on someone's life in the present. Her breakout novel, The House on Foster Hill, arrived in 2017 and won both a Christy Award and a Daphne du Maurier Award. It set the pattern readers now know well: troubled women, buried crimes, haunted places, and a story that keeps moving toward hope. Many of her books are stand-alones, which makes her backlist easy to enter from more than one direction.

She kept developing that approach in The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond, The Curse of Misty Wayfair, Echoes Among the Stones, and The Haunting at Bonaventure Circus. Readers who pick up her books usually come for the eerie setup, but they stay for the emotional undercurrent, grief, family wounds, questions of identity, and the stubborn search for grace after long-hidden damage. Her heroines are often women who have been ignored, doubted, or left to carry someone else's secrets.

Then came bigger set pieces and even stronger Gothic edges. On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor, The Souls of Lost Lake, The Premonition at Withers Farm, and The Vanishing at Castle Moreau all show how much she likes an isolated setting with a rumor attached. A manor over Lake Superior. A ruined cabin in the Northwoods. A farm with shadows in the walls. A castle full of hoarded secrets.

She likes a creepy premise, but she rarely writes empty chills.

Later books like The Lost Boys of Barlowe Theater, Night Falls on Predicament Avenue, Specters in the Glass House, and Tempest at Annabel's Lighthouse keep leaning into split-time suspense, while also broadening her range. She has also written Romantic Suspense for Love Inspired, including Buried Wilderness Secrets and Attempted Mountain Murder, and stepped into YA territory with Love & Baseball. Those shorter contemporary books move faster and lean more action-forward, but they still hold onto her interest in fear, trust, and survival.

Off the page, Wright comes across as funny, candid, and a little self-mocking. She jokes often about coffee, talks openly about loving cats, and writes from rural Wisconsin with her family. She also hosts the podcast MADLIT MUSINGS. Her own bio even has a bit of storybook play to it, with Cap'n Hook, Peter Pan, and Neverland showing up as family nicknames, which tells you something about her sense of humor.

What makes Jaime Jo Wright easy to recommend is that her books know exactly what they are. They offer moody settings, brisk suspense, strong faith threads, and just enough of the uncanny to keep you turning pages late. If you want mysteries stained with history and carried by atmosphere, she is a very good place to start.

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