Mediator Books in Order

The Mediator series centers on Susannah Simon, usually called Suze, a teenager with a problem she can't ignore: she can see and talk to ghosts. Not the friendly, sheet-and-chains kind, either. These spirits are stuck, angry, confused, and sometimes dangerous, and Suze has a gift for getting in the middle of their unfinished business.

The series begins when Suze's widowed mother remarries and moves the family to Carmel, California. Suze is dropped into a new town, a new school, and a new house with old history clinging to the walls. Her bedroom comes with a permanent roommate: Jesse de Silva, a handsome ghost who died long ago and isn't thrilled about sharing his space.

Suze's "mediator" role isn't a club she signed up for. She can see, hear, and touch the dead, which means she can do what most people can't: negotiate. Sometimes that looks like helping a spirit accept what happened and move on. Sometimes it looks like tracking down the truth behind a death that was never properly faced. And sometimes it looks like a straight-up fight with something that refuses to leave.

What keeps the books moving is the mix of everyday teen life and sudden paranormal chaos. Suze has school drama, family arguments, new step-siblings, and romance problems, and then, in the next chapter, she's dealing with a haunting that could hurt someone who is still alive. Cabot's voice keeps it brisk and funny even when the stakes get genuinely creepy, so the books read fast without feeling weightless.

The romance thread matters too, especially as Suze and Jesse's relationship shifts from annoyance to something more complicated. But the series never forgets its core tension: Suze wants a normal life, and the dead keep interrupting. Each book throws a new mystery at her while building a larger sense of what her powers mean, how far she'll go for someone who can't ask for help, and what it costs to keep choosing the hard, right thing.

If you're starting fresh, begin with Shadowland and read in order, because the relationships and the supernatural rules build as you go. The early books were first published under the pen name Jenny Carroll and later reissued under Cabot's name, so you may see both on older editions. After the original run, Cabot returned to this world with later stories, including Remembrance and the novella The Proposal, which check in on Suze and Jesse from a new stage of life.