Restless Spirits
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"Great book! It melds the ghostly paranormal with a love story without the "sap" typically found in love stories. It had intrigue, romance, ghosts, murder...this story had it all. Definitely a fun book to read."

Hi. I’m Jean Marie Bauhaus. Yes, like the band.
I’m the author of the cozy haunted house horror and mystery Spirits series and the vampire-zombie mashpup survival horror trilogy Dominion of the Damned. I’m currently spinning yarns over on my Substack, Through a Glass, Darkly. Check it out here.
If you like based, genre-blending stories that convey hope and a sense that there’s something beyond us, both good and evil, guiding and influencing human events — worlds where angels, faeries and ghosts are real and superstitions have their purpose — then you’ll like my fiction. Check out a few of my books and stories below, or click here to shop my full catalog.
Mae Bishop took a hammer to her marriage and became a national headline. Now, she’s a fugitive on a highway through the dark heart of the Midwest, guided by the one person she never wanted to see again: the ghost of the man she killed. Wade isn’t just haunting her for revenge—he’s a supernatural navigator leading her straight into the path of predators far more depraved than he ever was.
But the law isn’t the only force tracking her. A “neutral celestial faction” is looking for a contractor—someone with a history of violence and nothing left to lose. They offer Mae a “clean slate” in exchange for a baptism by blood, but the real hook is the one thing that could make her stop running: a chance to be reunited with the soul of the daughter Wade took from her with a single, brutal fist.
The rage inside Mae is a cold, living thing, fueled by years of abuse and the memory of a child she never got to hold. She’s ready to be a blade for the divine, but in a world where angels act like CIA handlers and the dead give the orders, the price of redemption might be her own humanity.
Mae has already killed for her freedom. Now she has to decide: how much blood is her daughter’s soul worth?


The dead rose first.
Then the vampires took over.
In a world overrun by zombies, humanity thought extinction was the worst possible outcome. They were wrong. Vampires emerged from the ruins, seized control, and turned survival into servitude.
Now humans are hunted, enslaved, and bled dry—while the undead roam free.
The Dominion of the Damned trilogy is a brutal, emotional post-apocalyptic saga of survival, resistance, and forbidden love in a world where monsters rule and hope is rebellion.
Perfect for fans of The Walking Dead, I Am Legend, and The Passage.
Two sisters.
One is dead.
The other sees ghosts.
When paranormal investigator Ron Wilson dies in a haunted house with no memory of how it happened, she doesn’t move on—she digs in. With her sister Chris, a medium who can see and hear the dead, Ron takes on the cases no one else can solve.
Together, they confront restless spirits, buried crimes, and dark secrets that refuse to stay hidden. Some hauntings want peace. Others want justice. And a few want blood.
Blending cozy horror, paranormal mystery, and emotional depth, the Restless Spirits series is perfect for fans of Darcy Coates, T. Kingfisher, CBS’s Ghosts, and Odd Thomas.


Every night, Mary walks the narrow trail through the woods to lock up her chickens, steeling herself against spider webs and memories of the husband who left her with both. THis night, something is different. The spiders seem bolder. The webs are more persistent. As grief blurs together with anger and exhaustion, Mary begins to sense that whatever is building in the dark isn’t just a nuisance. It’s patient, it’s aware, and it’s growing closer with every step she takes toward home.
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My fiction: Genre-blending stories that convey hope and a sense that there’s something beyond us — both good and evil — guiding and influencing human events. Worlds where angels, faeries and ghosts are real and superstitions have their purpose.
Real talk: the occasional blog post about my process, the things that fire up my imagination, real-life encounters with the things we don’t like to think about after dark, glimpses into my homesteading journey and life in the Ozarks.
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