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Three Sisters Books in Order

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See the Three Sisters books by Barbara Bartholomew in order, with quick summaries, series background, and an easy place to start.

Last updated: July 11, 2026

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Three Sisters books in publication order

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4 books

1

Almost Magic

by Barbara Bartholomew

2014

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.

2

Everyday Magic

by Barbara Bartholomew

2014

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.

3

More Than Magic

by Barbara Bartholomew

2014

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.

4

Granny Magic

by Barbara Bartholomew

2018

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.

Three Sisters books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Everyday Magic"

    Everyday Magic

    by Barbara Bartholomew

    2014Three Sisters, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "More Than Magic"

    More Than Magic

    by Barbara Bartholomew

    2014Three Sisters, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Almost Magic"

    Almost Magic

    by Barbara Bartholomew

    2014Three Sisters, Book 3
  4. Book cover for "Granny Magic"

    Granny Magic

    by Barbara Bartholomew

    2018Three Sisters, Book 4

Series background & context

The Three Sisters books are set in and around Whippoorwill Corners, Oklahoma, in the years just after World War II. At the center are the Wagstaff sisters, Sydney, Airdrie, and Cairo, women from a family where old folk knowledge and everyday magic have been handed down for generations. People whisper about witches. The sisters themselves are less interested in labels than in simply getting through ordinary life.

That ordinary life is never quite ordinary for long.

Each book turns to a different sister. Everyday Magic follows Sydney, the eldest, a schoolteacher whose steady manner hides a real connection to the old ways. More Than Magic shifts to Airdrie, the dreamy middle sister whose frightening visions make her both valuable and vulnerable. Almost Magic belongs to Cairo, the youngest and most practical, who feels left out of the family gift until a homemade potion and a houseful of trouble prove otherwise.

What makes the series work is the balance between small-town life and the uncanny. These are not grand fantasy epics. They are romances built from gossip, family memory, local reputation, and the uneasy feeling that the modern world has no patience for older forms of wisdom. Doctors, teachers, veterans, and traveling outsiders all step into the sisters' orbit, and love keeps arriving alongside doubt, danger, or embarrassment.

Whippoorwill Corners matters almost as much as the heroines. It is rural, watchful, a little suspicious, and deeply shaped by the past. People know one another's business. They remember old stories. They also worry about what belongs in a postwar future and what should be left behind. That tension gives the magic its real bite. The sisters are not only deciding whom to love. They are deciding whether their inheritance has any place in the world they live in.

Granny Magic extends that family line into a later generation. Instead of focusing on the original trio in their youth, it looks at what remains of the house, the history, and the old promise to care for the next one in line. That gives the series a satisfying sense of continuity. The magic here is domestic, emotional, and tied to women who keep handing something forward, even when the world tells them it no longer matters.

The tone is warm, clean, romantic, and a little wistful. Expect family secrets, gentle humor, small shocks, and just enough magic to upset a careful life.

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