About Caryl McAdoo:
A dear, but gruff Navy-sergeant-mentor once told her, "Caryl, pick a genre," but she never could and enjoys writing many genres with her husband Ron---yes, though only her name is on the covers, that's how Simon & Schuster wanted it when they published VOW UNBROKEN book number ten, and it works well for the McAdoos.
As a reader, she always loved reading family sagas, so it came naturally to write sagas with her first highly acclaimed historical series "Texas Romance Family Saga." Its ten titles cover five generations of three families (Buckmeyers, Baylors, and Nightingales) and over a century, 1832-1951: VOW UNBROKEN, HEARTS STOLEN, HOPE REBORN, SINS OF THE MOTHERS, DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART, JUST KIN, AT LIBERTY TO LOVE, COVERING LOVE, MIGHTY TO SAVE, AND CHIEF OF SINNERS.
Since she just couldn't bring herself to leave behind those characters she'd come to love, she created the "Texas Companion Books" series for ancestors and descendants of those families, now six titles strong: THE BEDWARMER'S SON, SON OF PROMISE, BIPARTISAN LOVE, JOHN DAVID'S CALLING, HANNAH CLAIRE'S WILDERNESS, and JEWEL'S GOLD.
And she's started a new series with the "Cross Timbers Romance Family Saga" with four families (O'Neals, Van Zandts, Worleys, and Harrells). It begins in 1840 and with two new titles each year has grown to four novels: GONE TO TEXAS, TEXAS MY TEXAS, TEXAS TEARS, and LEAVING TEXAS that take the story through 1850.
Caryl also writes contemporary romances, Biblical fiction---which she loves and always remains true to "His Story"---plus for Mid-grade and Young Adult readers. With fifty-plus titles now, it’s obvious she loves writing almost as much as singing the new songs the Lord gives her—you may listen to a few at YouTube.
She and high school sweetheart Ron, married fifty-plus years, share four children and nineteen grandsugars. The McAdoos live in the woods south of Clarksville, the seat of Red River County in far Northeast Texas, waiting expectantly for God to open the next door.
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About Caryl's Texas Romance Family Saga Series:
Vow Unbroken Lone Star Novel, Prelude to Texas Romance Family Saga, 1832Available on AMAZON
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?
Hearts Stolen Texas Romance Family Saga, Book 1, 1839 - 1844Available on AMAZON
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 she determines that day will bring freedom or death. She’ll remain captive no more.
Hope Reborn Texas Romance Family Saga, Book 2, 1850 - 1851
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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.
Sins of the Mothers Texas Romance Family Saga, Book 3, 1851 - 1853
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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.
Unbeknownst to the young bride, her new husband sends his kissing cousin ahead. He wants his love and his new wife’s money, too. Betrayal and murder drive Mary, soon a young mother, to the depths of despair.
But she hates the man who loves her enough to cover her sins and deliver her out of the horrible pit she’s dug for herself in. Or does she?
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God’s perfect plan is sometimes so hard to determine.
Gwendolyn, Cecelia, and the youngest, Bonnie, make a pact never to break their father’s heart like their big sister did. Then their determination is sorely tried when suitors show up, and he gets so pigheaded with his rules.
Will Henry survive his daughters coming of age? Will they endure and keep their promises to each other?
Just Kin Texas Romance Family Saga, Book 5, 1865 - 1867Love covers a multitude of sin.
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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 out something isn’t right, but is duty-bound to the Confederacy until a deathbed order sets in motion a series of events that tests his love, honor, and commitment to the breaking point.
At Liberty to Love Texas Romance Family Saga, Book 6, 1861 - 1865
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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 dreams, is unprepared, doesn’t need another man, but can’t get him out of her head…or heart.
Marcus Ford blames God and struggles for peace after losing his wife and baby. Not once has he considered another woman could be the answer, but the widow is like none other he’s ever met.
Will God’s mercy shine a beacon in the fog of despair and prove sufficient to heal their souls?
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 dreams, is unprepared, doesn’t need another man, but can’t get him out of her head…or heart.
Marcus Ford blames God and struggles for peace after losing his wife and baby. Not once has he considered another woman could be the answer, but the widow is like none other he’s ever met.
Will God’s mercy shine a beacon in the fog of despair and prove sufficient to heal their souls?
Covering Love Texas Romance Family Saga, Book 7, 1885 & 1866
Still, destiny drives Crockett and his sister Charlotte where neither wants to go or thinks they belong. Second and third generations of the Buckmeyer progeny encounter danger, challenges, heartaches, and joys. But then reunions are all the sweeter for it.
Mighty to Save Texas Romance Family Saga, Book 8, 1918 - 1925 & 1858 - 1867Available on AMAZON
Never lean to your own understanding, but in all your ways, acknowledge God, and He will guide your way.
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 tale of love and redemption are two additional stories, Evelyn’s novels of faith, family, and forgiveness.
Chief of Sinners Texas Romance Family Saga, Book 9, 1926-1951)Available on AMAZON
Obedience can overcome ruinous choices, and with repentance of wicked ways, God’s faithful forgiveness and mercies truly never fail?
Set in the afterglow of the Azusa Street Revival, this epic addition to the Texas Romance family saga sweeps through three decades of triumphs and tragedies—from the Texas Hill Country to the beaches of Normandy and beyond.
The faithful flock to his father’s tent where Buddy Nightingale leads praise and worship, but like King David, the young psalmist battles a generational curse, lust. On his first night back in Marble Falls, Texas—the place he heard the angels sang fifteen years prior—he beholds Sandra Harris, an eighteen-year-old beauty, attending strictly for the entertainment of the Spirit-filled meetings. Love strikes both, but her Church-of-Christ father wants no part of any holy roller.
Sometimes choices we make take us places we never intend to go, but God . . .
Caryl's Companion Books of the Texas Romance Family Saga Series (TRFSs):
Fear not, for God is with you. 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. Once his lily-white lawyer lady learns the truth, everything changes. Can she save him from swinging?
Will the bedwarmer murder the one she’s been bought to serve?
From the antebellum South, come travel the dusty trails of Jim Crowe Dalton, Georgia with slave and master, saint and sinner. See if God is really big enough. If He truly cares about His children. McAdoo has done it again, this time in a brand new way. A delightful morsel for the palates of Christian readers world round.
Son of Promise Companion Book 2 of TRFSs, 1950Available on AMAZON
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 breaking Emma Lee’s heart. She promised him one ten years ago but hasn’t been blessed to carry a baby to term. Every miscarriage made the telling harder, but now his clock’s run out. He’s going for his son, praying he won’t lose her.
Cody knows whom his mother claims his father is, but he’s only interested in getting sprung from reform school then boosting enough from the do-gooder to bust out on his own. Can Travis find redemption, Emma Lee forgiveness, or Cody the love he’s been longing for?
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Does time truly heal a broken heart?
Cody thought it had until she walked into the diner like she owned the world and back into his life as if she owned him. Can betrayal ever be completely forgiven? Cindy thought it could until she saw him with the bleached blonde. Her Cody! Separated eighteen years, Cody Wayne Buckmeyer and Cindy think they can put the past behind them and work toward a common goal, a congressional seat . . . but is that possible?
John David's Calling Companion Book 3 of TRFSs and Book 1 of The Revivalist Trilogy 1968-1970Available on AMAZON
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, Hannah Rose, beckons, but the call of the Lord is so strong, David must answer.
Hannah Claire's Wilderness Companion Book 4 of TRFSs and Book 2 of The Revivalist Trilogy 19700-1971
Right after she marries in 1970, love carries Hannah Claire to
Nigeria, following her husband David to the mission field—for only two years,
she thinks. Miracle upon miracle brings five-year-old African orphan Adaolisa
into the young wife’s life and she becomes a mother. Can the love for a child
keep her where she doesn’t want to be?
The children of wickedness threaten to make her a widow; they threaten everything, and danger abounds! Only by obedience can Hannah and her revivalist husband survive and prosper in a land torn by violence.
The children of wickedness threaten to make her a widow; they threaten everything, and danger abounds! Only by obedience can Hannah and her revivalist husband survive and prosper in a land torn by violence.
Jewel's Gold Companion Book 6 of TRFSs and Book 4 of the Gold Diggers Collection OneAvailable on AMAZON
Can a tangled web snare two hearts and point them true north?
A Papa’s girl from the start, Jewel Jones remembers all the things he told her. Wealthy, but far from being a snob, she finds Boaz Branson both irritating and intriguing. How can she know if the handsome confidence man truly turns from his wicked ways, or if his interest only in her gold? Papa said let God’s peace lead her.
Only by God’s grace can Boaz escape the deceptions he plans to perpetrate on the beautiful heiress. While his head wants to flee the entanglement, his heart bids him stay.
Are Jewel and Boaz building on sinking sand, or have they found the golden nugget they seek?
Caryl's Cross Timbers Romance Family Saga:
Gone to Texas Cross Timbers Family Saga, Book 1, 1840 / AND First Annual Thanksgiving Books & Blessings: 2018 Collection OneAvailable on AMAZON
Can beauty truly come from ashes?
In Book One of the Thanksgiving Books & Blessings Collection and the all-new Cross Timbers Family Saga series, Gone to Texas uncovers a deception that 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 families knit together by blood and friendship head out with a widowed man, daughter, and his slave, gambling everything they own on the prospect of land ownership and working it together.
Does friendship pave a way to marriage? Can puppy-love survive through a harrowing journey to blossom into a forever love? With duress at every turn, can the clan stay together all the way to Texas and accomplish their goals?
Texas My Texas Cross Timbers Family Saga, Book 2, 1841He 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 families struggle to carve a home and a living out of the western wilderness.
And though love isn’t always easy coming, like bees to sweet flowers, a neighbor and his partner swoop in hoping to steal the hearts of the clan’s two young beauties. Will their infants spoil the ointment?
Predator animals, Indians on the warpath, and living hand-to-mouth never make it easy, but my oh my—Texas my Texas! What a land! Don't miss this breathtaking addition to the Cross Timbers Romance Family Saga!
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Behold how good and pleasant it is to dwell together in unity.
In Book One of the Thanksgiving Books & Blessings Collection Two, just as Mexico and the United States both wanted the Republic of Texas, best friends Charity and Arlene want the same man!
Which will the Texicans choose? Who will the man? Will Eberhart de Vechhi, the object of the young ladies’ desires, follow his heart or his mother’s advice? And what of the interloper from New Orleans who knows exactly whom he loves? Can a Christian find happiness with a non-believer? Only the Lord knows the future, but He does give the desires of the heart to those who delight in Him.
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 families struggle to carve a home and a living out of the western wilderness.
And though love isn’t always easy coming, like bees to sweet flowers, a neighbor and his partner swoop in hoping to steal the hearts of the clan’s two young beauties. Will their infants spoil the ointment?
Predator animals, Indians on the warpath, and living hand-to-mouth never make it easy, but my oh my—Texas my Texas! What a land! Don't miss this breathtaking addition to the Cross Timbers Romance Family Saga!
Caryl's Collections and other Historical Romances:
Silent Harmony 2018 Lockets and Lace Collection, Book 2, 1867 Available on AMAZON
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. The eldest, Lucinda must mother her deaf daughter, Harmony, and mediate between her dueling siblings, Servilia and Melody.
The sisters’ fragile truce is shattered by the arrival of the handsome Ezekiel Sheffield, coming to establish a school for the deaf. Miracles, mayhem, and marriage ensue, but nothing ever comes easy.
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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 ulterior motives, Ethan Cord, the man her brother hires to accompany the family, is more a match for her. He appears almost perfect, but how could she possibly trust her instincts about him when she’d been so wrong about her previous fiancé? Will her past ruin her future?
Available on AMAZONhttps://www.amazon.com/Bitter-Honey-Lockets-Lace-Book-ebook/dp/B0852SFNW3
With God, all things are possible.
But can lost love be found again or two wounded hearts knitted together? Young love, sweeter than honey, is separated by a natural disaster and turns bitter. After five years, a miracle reunites Samantha Adams and Silas Mercier, but it seems it’s too late.
Will love prevail?
All 2020 Lockets and Lace Titles
With God, all things are possible.
But can lost love be found again or two wounded hearts knitted together? Young love, sweeter than honey, is separated by a natural disaster and turns bitter. After five years, a miracle reunites Samantha Adams and Silas Mercier, but it seems it’s too late.
Will love prevail?
All 2020 Lockets and Lace Titles
Book 20 Transforming Emma by Linda Carroll-Bradd
Book 21 Cassie’s Surprise by Patricia PACJAC Carroll
Book 22 Bitter Honey by Caryl McAdoo
Book 23 Grace Uninmagined by Abagail Eldan
Book 24 Ginger Snap by Marisa Masterson
Book 25 Hannah’s Handkerchief by Zina Abbott
Book 26 Willow’s Worth by Kimberly Grist
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It isn’t within man to guide his own steps—or a woman.
Caught between a wagon train and the deep blue sea, Agnes Remington Dalrumple, Remi for short, chooses the overland journey west over crossing the Atlantic with her mother and step-father.
Though the introvert has never been on her own, she decides to go to California and try to find the father she’s never known. Thwarted at every turn, almost every effort is dashed until a widower’s thirteen-year-old daughter intervenes on her behalf.
How can the headstrong young woman place herself under the responsibility of the girl’s father, a perfect stranger? But if she doesn’t, her journey ends right there in Saint Joseph, Missouri. On the Oregon/California trail, will pride and independence deter her from the destiny God has prepared?
All 2019 Lockets and Lace Titles
Book One SADIE bt Patricia PACJAC Carroll
Book Two REMI by Caryl McAdoo
Book Three HOPE by Barbara Goss
Book Four JULIA by Vickie McDonough
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Forgive, and you’ll be forgiven.
How can death, betrayal, a rash proposal, and revenge lead to romance? An abusive controller—ex-brother-in-law, new husband, uncle-stepfather—compels reluctant travelers—his brother’s widow and daughter--westward.
To escape his abuse, Lilah proposes marriage to the wagon train scout, which only leaves Padraig thinking she's a bit soft in the head. It's 1855, and you owe it to yourself to come join the journey along the Oregon Trail with Lilah. Wagon Ho!
2020 PRAIRIE ROSES COLLECTION
LILAH Book Five by Caryl McAdoo
SUSAN Book Six by Patricia PACJAC Carroll
KATE Book Seven by Donna Schlachter
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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 shouldn't mean the daughter of a Union man has any excuse for canoodling with a Rebel.
Still, eighteen-year-old Gigi longed for true love, and the dashing Texas Ranger turned Kentucky Confederate vies for her heart. How will they overcome the odds and a war to be together? A Civil War indeed, such an oxymoron!
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 shouldn't mean the daughter of a Union man has any excuse for canoodling with a Rebel.
Still, eighteen-year-old Gigi longed for true love, and the dashing Texas Ranger turned Kentucky Confederate vies for her heart. How will they overcome the odds and a war to be together? A Civil War indeed, such an oxymoron!
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Physician heal thyself.
While 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, Lydia Andrews arrives at the Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, hired on Clara Barton’s endorsement.
There she meets Doctor Jacob Johnston, and both soon learn that love is the salve to soothe wounded souls.
Readers, Caryl also has:
Four titles for children and young adults---The Adventures of Sergeant Sock THE JOURNEY HOME, The Adventures of Sergeant Sock THE BRAVEST HEART, AMAZING GRACI, Guardian of the River Bottom Ranch, and THE KING'S HIGHWAY
Five Biblical fiction stories---A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, THEN THE DELUGE COMES, REPLENISH THE EARTH, CHILDREN OF EBER, and I AM MY BELOVED
Four non-fiction books---STORY & STYLE, The Craft of Writing Creative Fiction, HEART"WINGS" DEVOTIONAL, Volume One, ANTIQUING IN NORTH TEXAS, and GREAT FIREHOUSE COOKS OF TEXAS
Plus a thriller (not written for Christian audience) THIEF OF DREAMS, a mystery on audio ABSOLUTE PI, and a WWII military novel THE PRICE PAID, based on true experiences of GW McAdoo, my father-in-law who flew a Hellcat bomber off Hornet in the Pacific during WW II.
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