Barbara Bartholomew Books in Order

A playful early adventure for younger readers, built around a high-concept mystery and quick-moving trouble. It has the bright, curious feel of an old-school kid paperback.

An early young adult romance about two teenagers learning how quickly affection can turn complicated. Bartholomew keeps the focus on feelings, choices, and the awkward honesty of first love.

A children's adventure that drops its young characters into unfamiliar territory and asks them to think fast. The story moves with the straightforward energy of Bartholomew's early books for younger readers.

After winning the lead in the school play, Julie suddenly has a place with the popular crowd. The hard part is figuring out whether they like the role she is playing, or the real girl underneath.

Sixteen-year-old Brooke is tired of living in the shadow of her popular twin. A summer on her aunt's Oklahoma farm, and a bond with a spirited horse, gives her a chance to become her own person.

A school-centered mystery for younger readers, built around academic trouble and a puzzle that will not stay small. Bartholomew keeps the pace brisk and the stakes kid-sized but real.

This brief young adult romance follows a relationship that feels larger and riskier than the heroine expected. It is a clean, straightforward story about taking first love seriously.

Erin Palmer returns to Pine Creek to research Ozark folktales and finds old family secrets waiting there. As questions about her birth parents surface, so does a romance that complicates everything.

A slim teen romance about first feelings, changing expectations, and the surprise of being drawn to someone unexpected. Bartholomew keeps the stakes intimate and easy to read.

Reporter Trudy McClung follows every angle of a story, until an assignment on local churches brings her close to minister Jeremy Harper. Work and attraction begin to ask harder questions of her than either expected.

Jeanette and Amy know the first timeway is gone, but Jesse is still stranded in another age. A carnival carousel opens a second route, sending them through past, present, and future in search of a way home.

Lara Ames comes to Lake Travis carrying the weight of a painful past and a need to heal. By the water, she begins to imagine a different future, and the possibility of love with it.

When Priscilla starts working for the local newspaper, ordinary life gets a little more complicated. This short teen romance mixes first-job nerves with the messy hope that love might finally go her way.

Fifteen-year-old Jeanette Lacy goes looking for her runaway brother and stumbles into time travel through a doomed old hotel. With the clock ticking, she is swept across centuries and into a bond that will pull her back again.

A message from the future sends Jeanette, Neil, and Jesse traveling again because their alien friends may die without them. To save Amy, they must face the Guardians once more.

Cathleen is busy keeping the family farm going while her grandmother recuperates, leaving no room for romance. Then a blue-eyed stranger appears and unsettles the life she thought she understood.

Romance writer Meredith Gage heads to Texas for Wild West research and finds a man who seems to have stepped out of one of her own plots. Fantasy and reality collide as attraction turns serious.

A quiet, clean romance about the feelings people hide and the courage it takes to say what matters. Bartholomew keeps the emotional tension close and personal.

A sudden change upends a young woman's expectations and forces her to see love and the future differently. This early Bartholomew novel leans into emotional surprise rather than grand drama.

A warmhearted novel that uses a dog's point of view to explore loyalty, loss, and the bond between animals and people. The emotional pull is gentle, clean, and direct.

Runaway Jeep Harris lands on a ranch in western Oklahoma and finds a school that seems stuck near Pearl Harbor. Caught between today and yesterday, he has to decide where, and when, he belongs.

Caswell flees with her gifted young daughter toward Endymion, a hard land that shelters the magically talented. Survival is only the start, as love, power, and old legend pull her into a larger struggle.

Rina of Endymion, a princess without magic, is forced into an impossible exchange with Alice Roosevelt of another world. An insane witch, political danger, and two crossed destinies keep both young women running.

Elizabeth has long treated her Christmas Eve visitor as an imaginary friend from childhood. When he shows up in real life as a grown cowboy, memory, magic, and reality stop agreeing.

Jillian Blake meets a man walking out of the Gulf who claims he is a privateer serving Jean Lafitte. With war fears rising in 1942 Texas, their romance is swept into a dangerous trip through time.

Fifteen-year-old Jamie Lewis Ward loves his farm life on a future Earth and wants no part of being chosen for another world. But once he is sent away with ninety-nine other teens, ordinary life is gone for good.

Lynne Hallam arrives at an isolated Oklahoma ranch to work with old journals and meets a visitor no one else can see. Moss insists he is not dead yet, and their strange connection begins to rewrite both their futures.

Angie Ward returns to her grandparents' abandoned Texas farm, still haunted by her little brother's disappearance. When she sees him exactly as he was years ago, she is thrown into the 1940s and a mystery that feels painfully personal.

Betsy Stephens wants an ordinary life, then steps into an old kitchen and comes face to face with a Confederate soldier. Crossing forty years into the Civil War forces her to question both history and her heart.

Eddie dreams of a love as rare as the one her parents found across time, but her first letter to 2027 gets only a secretary's reply. Leaving Lavender should end the fantasy, yet it opens the door to a new one.

Cynthia Burden is fighting for custody of her daughter when letters begin arriving from a doctor in 1890s Texas. What starts as an obvious prank becomes a dangerous comfort, and maybe something more.

The Earth children taken into the Aremian Empire have grown up, but peace never lasts. Jamie Lewis Ward must protect the surviving Earthers and a gifted young princess as politics turn deadly.

Hart Benson wakes inside a life that does not feel like hers and memories that belong to a woman lost when Medicine Stick went under water. Someone wants her dead before the truth comes clear.

Cairo Wagstaff thinks she missed out on the family magic until a homemade rose vapor fills the house like a love potion. Suddenly an escaped prisoner, a sharp-tongued surgeon, and Cairo's own heart are all in chaos.

Teacher Bobbi Lawrence is ready for a steadier future until memories of an old life in Medicine Stick come rushing back. Chasing a lost love across time proves far harder than remembering him.

In 1947 Oklahoma, schoolteacher Sydney Wagstaff is the sensible eldest of three sisters whispered about as witches. When her childhood love comes home from the war, old feelings and older family magic stir together.

Violet James has spent years dreaming of a 1908 Texas town and a man she has never met. When the Blitz shatters her 1940s London life, she is thrown straight into the Lavender she thought existed only in sleep.

Airdrie Wagstaff is the dreamer, the sister whose visions unsettle everyone in Whippoorwill Corners. When she foresees danger around Gabe Cabot, the boy she has loved for years, she has to act before she loses him.

A time-bending romance about people standing where memory, longing, and fate meet. Bartholomew keeps the stakes personal, with love tested by the strange pull of time.

Hart wants a peaceful life with Alistair, but her impossible story keeps pulling at their marriage. When old dreams return and a prisoner vanishes, Medicine Stick's buried past rises again.

Lonely McKinley Alva expects to spend Christmas by herself until a chance meeting with Jerry Caldecott sweeps her into an old-fashioned holiday in Lavender, Texas. For once, family and warmth feel real.

Rancher Teddy Robeson thinks of himself as a practical man, not a dreamer. Then old longings and the pull of the past unsettle his ordinary life in this quieter, reflective Ancient Cities story.

Rosemary Ferris and David Kade are married, but old losses and unfinished mysteries still shadow their lives. This second Ancient Cities novel keeps one eye on love and the other on time, memory, and what history steals.

Rosemary Ferris and Dr. David Kade meet in a story shaped by archaeology, family history, and the pull of the deep past. Romance grows alongside questions about what should stay buried, and what should not.

A romance shaped by danger and endurance, where love is tested under real pressure and survival changes everything. Bartholomew keeps the focus on emotional stakes as hard choices close in.

After Christmas in Lavender, McKinley Alva thinks she may have found lasting love with Jerry Caldecott, then he vanishes. As danger closes in, she learns the little Texas town is hiding far more than holiday charm.

Darrell Hammond is nearing the end of his assignment in a protected future, but one last trip to Lavender changes everything. Falling for the wrong woman at the wrong time could cost him the ordinary life he was promised.

Gravely wounded veteran David James Johnson returns to his Oklahoma hometown to help the grandfather who raised him. Then a ghostly presence begins warning them both, and grief turns into a very real threat.

Tina Carr, an agent guarding Lavender across time, spends Christmas in 1914 and meets Randall Burden, a man who may be kin to someone she trusts. Attraction comes easy. Trust does not.

A holiday tale set around Lavender, Texas, where wartime worries and family loyalties press close during Christmas 1915. In Bartholomew's hidden, time-bent world, tenderness and uncertainty arrive together.

Wounded veteran David Johnson and Susan Elliot want a quiet future, but a predatory police chief and a string of buried crimes will not let them rest. Their rural Oklahoma investigation turns darker the closer they get to the truth.

Eighteen-year-old Wren, abandoned as a baby, follows a strange invitation to a small Midwestern town and meets Sydney Wagstaff, a century-old aunt. In a haunted old house, she uncovers a family line of wise women and a destiny she is not sure she wants.