The Barlow Brothers Books in Order
Part ofShirley Jump Books in OrderThis page shows The Barlow Brothers books by Shirley Jump in order, with summaries, series background, and simple help on where to start.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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The Barlow Brothers books in publication order
5 books
The Homecoming Queen Gets Her Man
by Shirley Jump
2014
Meri Prescott comes back to town looking nothing like the pageant queen everyone remembers. Home might be the last place she wanted to need, but it may also be where love finally catches up with her.
The Instant Family Man
by Shirley Jump
2015
One minute he is living for himself, the next he is facing kids, responsibility, and feelings he is not ready for. This warm small-town romance asks whether a former playboy can really become family material.
The Tycoon's Proposal
by Shirley Jump
2015
Mac Barlow is used to getting the deal he wants, until Savannah Hillstrand refuses to be pushed aside. Business sparks turn personal fast when a tycoon meets the one woman who will not back down.
The Firefighter's Family Secret
by Shirley Jump
2016
Haunted by a tragedy on the job, firefighter Colton Barlow arrives in a town he barely knows and stumbles into family history he never expected. Healing gets more complicated when love starts asking something of him, too.
Winning the Nanny's Heart
by Shirley Jump
2016
CPA Katie Williams only means to help a single dad on a temporary basis, not get woven into his family. But Sam Millwright's children, and Sam himself, make walking away much harder than she planned.
The Barlow Brothers books in chronological order

The Homecoming Queen Gets Her Man
by Shirley Jump
2014The Barlow Brothers, Book 1
The Instant Family Man
by Shirley Jump
2015The Barlow Brothers, Book 2
The Tycoon's Proposal
by Shirley Jump
2015The Barlow Brothers, Book 3
The Firefighter's Family Secret
by Shirley Jump
2016The Barlow Brothers, Book 4
Winning the Nanny's Heart
by Shirley Jump
2016The Barlow Brothers, Book 5
Series background & context
The Barlow Brothers is a small-town family series with plenty of category-romance energy: strong personalities, local history, surprise dependents, and men who think they have their lives under control right up until they very much do not. The books connect through the Barlow family and the North Carolina town around them, but each romance has its own problem to solve.
And there is always a problem.
The Homecoming Queen Gets Her Man sets the tone by pairing a polished former pageant queen with the hometown world she thought she had outgrown. The Instant Family Man throws one of the series men into the deep end of parenthood and forces him to learn fast. The Tycoon's Proposal takes the sharpest businessman of the bunch and puts him up against a heroine who will not be steamrolled, professionally or personally. The Firefighter's Family Secret adds a more vulnerable note, following a hero already carrying job-related trauma as he gets pulled into unfamiliar family truths. Winning the Nanny's Heart continues the series' theme of men who are not quite ready for domestic life discovering they may not get a vote.
Stone Gap, and the broader local community around it, matters here. These books work because the brothers are not operating in a vacuum. Family expectations, old reputations, town gossip, and the weight of the Barlow name all shape the romances. Even when a book starts with a business deal or a childcare emergency, it usually opens into something larger about belonging.
The tone stays warm and accessible. There are babies, secrets, stubborn heroes, and heroines who are not impressed by charm alone. Jump keeps the emotional stakes clear without making the books feel heavy.
If you like connected-family romances where each brother has to learn a different version of how love changes the plan, The Barlow Brothers delivers exactly that.
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