Barbara Bartholomew

Barbara Bartholomew brings a journalist’s interest in people and place to romantic fiction. By the Bay moves between 2012 and 1942, beginning when Jillian time-travels to a Maine coastal community and meets Philippe, a privateer whose choices bind adventure to a developing relationship. Fantastic Fiction classifies the novel as paranormal romance and records its 2012 publication, while Book Notification’s author bibliography places it within Bartholomew’s wider body of novels. The latter profile also identifies her long career as a reporter, an experience that helps explain the book’s attention to setting, motive, and the later effects of a surprising event. Rather than treating its historical shift as decoration, By the Bay makes the difference between eras central to what Jillian can understand and change. Readers interested in time-slip romance will find an author working with a clear speculative premise, a maritime backdrop, and two characters whose encounter tests the distance between their worlds.