Midlife Spirits books in order

Reading order

Midlife Spirits is H.P. Mallory’s flagship midlife paranormal series, an eighteen-book run that follows a woman who discovers in middle age that she can communicate with ghosts. The series began in 2021 and ran through 2023, releasing the bulk of its installments in a concentrated burst. Bump In The Night starts things off, establishing the protagonist and her unexpected new ability, and the series builds from there across a wide cast of spirits and supernatural situations.

The books range across ghost mysteries, magical encounters, and the kind of supernatural complications that tend to cascade once you become known in the spirit world as someone who can actually help. Titles like A Ghost of a Chance, Ghostly Gathering, Mischief Brewing, and Hauntingly Happy reflect the series’ balance between humor and genuine supernatural stakes. The later books bring in broader paranormal elements – Big Girls Don’t Scry, Gorgon Gone Wild, Mermaid Mayhem – widening the world beyond ghosts into the fuller supernatural landscape.

Paranormal women’s fiction has grown substantially as a subgenre, and Midlife Spirits helped establish H.P. Mallory as a reliable voice in it. Readers who prefer heroines with life experience and a sense of humor over traditional younger protagonists will find the series hits the right notes. Starting from Bump In The Night and reading in order gives the full arc of the protagonist’s development from reluctant ghost-speaker to someone who has genuinely found her footing in the supernatural world.