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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 2004
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Cross Timbers Family Saga

1 - Gone to Texas (Sep-2018)
2 - Texas My Texas (Jan-2019)
3 - Texas Tears (Sep-2019)
4 - Leaving Texas (Jan-2020)
5 - Texas Troubles (Sep-2020)
6 - Texas Trails (Apr-2021)
7 - Texas Timbers (Sep-2021)

Days of Dread

1 - The King's Highway (Oct-2015)

The Generations

1 - A Little Lower Than The Angels (Nov-2004)
2 - Then the Deluge Comes (Mar-2015)
3 - Replenish the Earth (Aug-2015)

A Lone Star Novel

1 - Vow Unbroken (Mar-2014)
2 - Hearts Stolen (Sep-2014)
3 - Hope Reborn (Dec-2014)
4 - Sins of the Mothers (May-2015)
5 - Daughters of the Heart (Sep-2015)
6 - Just Kin (Jan-2016)
7 - At Liberty to Love (May-2016)
8 - Covering Love (Jan-2017)
9 - Mighty to Save (May-2017)
10 - Chief of Sinners (Sep-2017)

Red River Romance

1 - The Preacher's Faith (Jan-2015)
2 - Sing a New Song (Mar-2015)
3 - One and Done (Jul-2015)

Texas Romance Family Saga Companion Books

1 - The Bedwarmer's Son (Oct-2016)
2 - Son of Promise (Feb-2018)

Multi-Author Series List

Lockets and Lace

2 - Silent Harmony (Jan-2018)
12 - Uniquely Common (Apr-2019)

Book List in Order: 41 titles




  • A spunky young widow hires a farmhand with a bad reputation to help her get her cotton to Jefferson to meet the wagon train, and sparks fly -- but can she love a man who doesn’t love the Lord? Susannah Abbot Baylor reluctantly hires Henry Buckme...



  • Unbeknownst to loved ones, a headstrong young wife is snatched off the prairie by two Comanche braves, carried north of the Red River, and traded to their war chief for ponies. After five years, a small detail of Texas Rangers rides into camp, and sh...



  • New York dime novelist May Meriwether decides a heroic Texas Ranger will make a great love interest for her new heroine. Bored to tears and loving adventure, she sets out to the Lone Star State with her constant companion and confidant Chester in tow...



  • Can the orphaned preacher and the heartbroken rodeo queen navigate the path to true love with a lie and an ex-beau blocking their way? Learning of Faith Johnson’s rash promise to her father, New Hope Baptist’s interim preacher Asa Davidson shows ...



  • The untimely death of her father shatters Mary Esther Robbins’ heart and separates her from her grade school best friend, Samuel Levi Baylor. During the twenty years apart, she fulfills her life’s dream of penning new songs and singing God’s pr...



  • Obedience assures the preservation of life. Nine hundred and thirty years have passed. Evil has overtaken the sons of Cain and fills the earth with lasciviousness and violence. God declares He will not contend forever with man. Eight generations surr...



  • Persistent faith brings redemption and reconciliation. Propelled by blind love, Mary Rachel Buckmeyer defies her father to elope with Caleb Wheeler. The newlyweds run off to California then partner with his cousin in his dry goods business. Unbeknown...



  • Faith trumps cynicism and unbelief in ONE AND DONE, a gender-crossing love story with its baseball backdrop and strong pitcher/batter hero. Samantha Danielle, cutest weather girl on Dallas TV, only dreams of sports reporting when an opportunity to sc...






  • God always has a good plan for the righteous. Sin fills the world with violence, but faith carries Noah and his family above the flood through the storm. In the harshness of Mount Ararat where they disembark, nothing compares to the lushness of Adamâ...



  • God’s perfect plan is oft so hard to determine. In his life, Henry Buckmeyer has never been so beside himself. His little girls are so young, just babies, too young. He hates the whole idea of men coming to take them away and is inclined to shoot e...



  • With airplanes falling out of the sky and all things electric rendered useless after a mysterious flash, skills instilled by Jackson’s Marine father move front and center. With a fierce determination to keep his thirteen-year-old sister McKenzie an...



  • Love covers a multitude of sin. A stolen kiss ignites a fire that burns all the way from Texas to New York City. Torn apart by war, rejection, and a letter with news she never wanted, Lacey Rose takes her shredded heart and runs. Charley figures some...



  • Obedience is better than sacrifice…and trumps romance, no matter how sweet. Profound loneliness propels a childless widow west with the idea of choosing an orphan to share her life. On the way, a fellow traveler takes her by surprise. She never dre...



  • What if Abel had killed Cain, but there was no jury of his peers? In 1928 Georgia, a black man who kills a white man is automatically guilty, but the bedwarmer’s son, an ex-slave, is no normal black man. And the dead white man is his half-brother. ...



  • Love may cover a multitude of sins, but not knowing all the facts can also get a man killed. A family calamity gathers the clan, then a dying request tests loyalties and changes lives. New York City’s posh society, living on a rugged Texas hill cou...



  • Contrary to her parents’ wishes, Evelyn married a nonbeliever, but it all works out . . . or does it? Not only did the love of her life accept Christ, Nathaniel got baptized by fire and became a minister of the gospel. Woven into the breathtaking t...



  • Tragic and triumphant, The Chief Of Sinners gives readers a firsthand view of the Spirit’s work in several characters’ lives as full gospel beliefs are contrasted against the dogma of the more traditional. Spanning three generations, the epic tal...



  • God uses all things together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purposes. Orphaned by the Civil War, three sisters struggle to keep the family farm solvent. Eldest, Lucinda must mother her deaf daughter, Harmony and mediat...






  • Be it known, your sins will find you out, but God’s mercy endureth forever! Can a wife find the grace to forgive when her husband’s withheld the truth? Travis Buckmeyer has a secret son, and the morning’s come to tell his sweet wife. He hates b...



  • The wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. How could the wisest man ever to live turn away from following God? The key is in Ecclesiastes and the Song of Songs that King Solomon wrote after his return to the Lord. Who was the Shulamite? And why ...



  • The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Born in sin, but redeemed by the blood, John David Nightingale rejects his mother’s heritage and embraces his paternal grandfather’s faith. What price will he have to pay? Vietnam looms and his love, ...



  • Can beauty truly come from ashes? Deception drives seventeen souls to hard choices. Either stay on the land they thought they’d bought or heed the lure of free land in the faraway wilderness of a new Republic. Rife with peril and hardship, three fa...



  • He who puts his trust in God will possess the land and inherit the blessings.Scripture tells a husband to love his wife, but what if she loves the memory of a dead man? Lured to the Texas frontier by more free land than they could ever buy, four fami...





  • Steel sharpens steel, but will its sparks ignite unfailing love?Instead of living a pampered life on the civilized east coast with a new husband, rejection compels Christina Adams westward with her widowed brother and his two daughters. Harboring ult...




  • I know the plans I have for you, plans for good, not evil.Cruel is the illusion of love. Robbed of her true love by his mean-spirited mother, Charity is given no choice but to leave Texas and follow her Prince Charming to the Golden State. Instantly ...



  • In this world, you will have tribulation.In 1861, a tragic war fell upon America's United States, dividing them North against South. Some might say a young woman can't be too fussy when almost every unattached young man is off fighting, but that shou...






  • Physician heal thyselfWhile physical wounds heal with time, a special balm is needed to heal those sick of soul. In the Civil War aftermath, two such people's paths cross. A recent graduate of the Harrow School of Nursing first class in May 1868, Lyd...



  • Brothers are for conflict; and he who finds a wife has found a good thing.Through the first battle to the end of the Civil war, partners Aaron Van Zandt and Rich Worley fought on opposite sides. The women who loved them lived in prayer and learned to...



  • And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts . . .Is Quincy even interested in a wife? Can the middle-aged chef cook up a romance with a beautiful, but spoiled, young woman? Priscilla definitely wanted no part of the a...



  • There's nothing covered that won't be revealed. Greed weaves a tangled web at The Lowell House, but one must rise very early to out fox the hotel's proprietor. With the help of his exuberant wife and his friend and former sergeant, Morgan sees throug...



  • The steps of a righteous man are guided by the Lord.Rife with adventure, this rights-of-passage story comes to life as Enoch Lowell and his best friend Gus strike out to Kansas with their herd of beeves, hoping to make a profit and cut the apron stri...



  • The Lord works in mysterious ways. Fleeing heartache, shame, and betrayal, Ruth finds all her plans thwarted until the untimely death of a goat that gives her hope! Hired as a wet-nurse for Logan's motherless son, she rejects his marriage-of-convenie...



  • A friend loveth at all times, but a brother is for adversity.There's a human skull with a hatchet still in it in a crumbling shack in the river bottoms. Four friends set out to discover who it belonged to and who left the hatchet behind, and they're ...



  • He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains the Lord's favor . . . is the reverse true?Can a romance born of prophecy thrive? Autumn Hope knows for a fact that the man she's to marry cuts timber in the Sulphur River bottoms. She's seen him in ...



  • And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, a day, a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. Revelation 9:15For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. As evil heightens all over the world, Jacks...



  • Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. Revelation 9:14The sixth trumpet has sounded. The world is at war.Compelled by a night terror, Jackson leaves the relative safety...






  • As it is appointed unto men to die once, then judgmentThe Son of Man was made sin, cast away from the presence of the Great I AM's presence, and condemned to Hades to face judgment. What exactly happened during those three days from the Lord's lifele...



  • New and old collide in SETTLERS & TOFFS as Ambrose Lee and Blaire build a hotel and a new life together along with a remnant from the wagon train he captained in '49. Settling in Auburn, California, they deal with the gold rush boom town's growing pa...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Caryl McAdoo has published 41 books.

Caryl McAdoo does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Settlers & Toffs, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Caryl McAdoo, A Little Lower Than The Angels, was published in November 2004.

Yes. Caryl McAdoo has 6 series.