Bøger af Caryl McAdoo

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 pangs while the next Earl of Farnsworth, William Cromwell, voyages home to England with his intended Clara Spencer and her family. Though separated by a country and an ocean, troubles and trials plague them all. Revisit old friends from Book One WAGONS WEST and meet new ones in this second novel of the New Beginnings Family Saga! This story has been previously published on Kindle Vella with the same title as episodes for Season Two. Season Three, ANSWERING THE CALL episodes are now available at Kindle Vella now.

He shall choose our inheritance for us . . .A prim and proper country girl is thrown into a mayhem of madams and mercy killing when Alexandria Bell inherits her estranged uncle's portion of a big city's premier newspaper, the Texas Times. She does find the pickin's better in Dallas as before she knows it, three suitors vie for her attentions. One makes her laugh, one speaks to her heart, and the third possesses such a way with words, he makes her envious of his talent . . . but she's his boss. Come along on Alex's new career adventure and see if any are successful in winning her heart and hand. Complete Caryl's CROSS TIMBERS ROMANCE FAMILY SAGA seriesBook 1: GONE TO TEXASBook 2: TEXAS MY TEXASBook 3: TEXAS TEARSBook 4: LEAVING TEXASBook 5: TEXAS TROUBLESBook 6: TEXAS TRAILSBook 7: TEXAS TIMBERSBook 8: TEXAS WILDFLOWERSBook 9: TEXAS TIMESComplete Thanksgiving Books & Blessings Collection2023 Collection SixBook 22: TEXAS TIMES by Caryl McAdooBook 23: TENDER MERCIES by Karen GammonsBook 25: FRANCINE'S FOIBLES by Linda Shenton Matchett 2022 Collection FiveBook 18: By Karen GammonsBook 19: By Amy WalshBook 20: TEXAS WILDFLOWERS By Caryl McAdooBook 21: By Linda Shenton Matchett 2021 Collection FourBook 17: TEXAS TIMBERS By Caryl McAdoo 2020 Collection ThreeBook 13: A PINK LADY THANKSGIVING By Donna SchlachterBook 14 MAGNOLIA'S MEASURE By Kimberly GristBook 15: TEXAS TROUBLES By Caryl McAdoo Book 16: CAROLINA HOMECOMING By Heather Blanton 2019 Collection TwoBook 9: THANKFUL FOR THE COWBOY By Mary ConnealyBook 10: TEXAS TEARS By Caryl McAdooBook 11: SPRING OF THANKSGIVING By Liz TolsmaBook 12: THESE GREAT GIFTS By Allison Pittman 2018 Collection OneBook 1: GONE TO TEXAS By Caryl McAdooBook 2: GATEWAY TO THE WEST By Susette WilliamsBook 3: TRAIL TO CLEAR CREEK By Kit MorganBook 4: HEART AND HOME By P. CreedenBook 5: NO TURNING BACK By Lynette SowellBook 6: DAUGHTER OF DEFIANCE By Heather BlantonBook 7: UNMISTAKABLY YOURS By Kristin HoltBook 8: ESTHER'S TEMPTATION By Lena Nelson Dooley

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 something isn't right, but is duty-bound to the Confederacy until a deathbed order sets in motion a series of events that test his love, honor, and commitment to the breaking point. Can the two lifelong friends see past the pain to finally realize God's plan for them to be more than just kin?

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 trust God even more to stay sane. While their fellows fought each other, best friends Josie Jo Worley and Cass Andrews battle jealousy, worry, and regret. Experience the war as one who's left behind. See how they cope. Readers aren't able to stop turning the pages.

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 tale offers a realistic look at salvation, forgiveness, obedience and faith and the consequences of accepting or rejecting His Way.

Without faith, it is impossible to please God. At the time Abram is called to a strange, pagan land by the God of his fathers, Shem still walks the earth. At his death, his great-grandson Eber becomes the patriarch. Abraham, never the oldest living firstborn, is rewarded with power and riches for his obedience to leave his home and sojourn. Still-though the Lord has promised him an heir-his beloved wife remains barren, which tears daily at her heart. Almighty God visits His prophet, talks with him, forgives his indiscretions, and cleans up the messes he makes. The Lord promises amazing things including all of the lands where Abram walks for him and his heirs as a possession and that nations will come forth from his loins-descendants too numerous to be counted. The well-known story of the Father of Faith comes to life in Children of Eber. Walk with the man honored by today's the three major faiths.

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.

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. Or does she? Mary Rachel travels from frontier Texas to the raw bone boomtown of 1850's San Francisco gold rush days, then all the way to genteel New York to find redemption for the sins of her mothers.

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 surround Adam's deathbed. Sixth generation Jared fathered Enoch who begat Methuselah. These grandfathers plant a forest of gopher trees though they don't know why except that God put it on their hearts. Methuselah rears his son Lamech who becomes father to Noah, the only one of the tenth generation to walk perfect before the Lord and hears His word. MAKE THEE AN ARK OF GOPHER WOOD; ROOMS SHALT THOU MAKE IN THE ARK, AND SHALT PITCH IT WITHIN AND WITHOUT WITH PITCH Evil, too, heard the word of the Lord, and Lucifer and his angels war in the Heavens to destroy the earth's inhabitants. With each child that is passed through the fire, their battle songs grow stronger, but the Lord works in mysterious ways. Noah's wife bears him three sons, Japheth, Ham, and Seth, and together all the men embark on the massive task of building the giant ark. Methuselah means 'when I die, the deluge comes', and as the vessel of their salvation nears completion, he joins the grandfathers in Paradise. One week later, the rain--which has never fallen on earth before--begins.

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 Adam's Valley-their home left behind. And troubles surviving the thirteen months on the Ark can't match the struggles they face to forge new lives in a hard land where the mist no longer rises up every even...where instead of a protective covering cloud of water above, the brutal sun beats down and unpredictable storms batter the inhabitants. Still, the Lord has given the sons of Noah a mandate. REPLENISH THE EARTH

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. 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.

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. Dreams for a husband and children are relegated to the recesses of her heart, the self-confessed old maid deems it too late. But the near-perfect widower resurrects a smidgen of hope. Only his impenetrable, superstitious religious beliefs stand in the path to her falling head over heels, those and his love for his dead wife. Would there ever be room for her in his heart? And would he give up his fanaticism for God? An unexpected romance surprises both. Hope is reborn in God's unfailing love and grace. Can a life be built on lies find the Way to confession, forgiveness, and true joy? In a day when the church offers the only stability on the 1850 Texas prairie, these unlikely players find one another and fall in love. But will it be enough?Texas Romance Family Saga- Book 1: VOW UNBROKEN- Book 2: HEART STOLEN- Book 3: HOPE REBORN- Book 4: SINS OF THE MOTHER- Book 5: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART- Book 6: JUST KIN- Book 7: AT LIBERTY TO LOVE- Book 8: COVERING LOVE- Book 9: MIGHTY TO SAVE- Book 10: CHIEF OF SINNERSCompanion Books to Texas Romance Family Saga- Book 1: THE BEDWARMER'S SON- Book 2: SON OF PROMISE- Book 3: JOHN DAVID'S CALLING (The Revivalist Trilogy #1)- Book 4: HANNAH CLAIRE'S WILDERNESS (The Revivalist Trilogy#2)- Book 5: BIPARTISAN LOVE- Book 6: JEWEL'S GOLD

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. He's so perfect-every bit the one she'd searched for as a young woman-except his mistrust of God has erected a wall she cannot breach. 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. He falls hard, but plans are taking him east. Hope dashed sends two hearts into the pit. If only Ford could forgive God or the widow ease up on her adamant resolve. Will God's mercy shine a beacon in the fog of despair and prove sufficient to heal their souls?

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. Sassy Nightengale almost gives up hope until a company of Texas Rangers rides into Bold Eagle's peace camp. She learns they've come for the negotiated exchange of stolen white women, except her name isn't on their list. Purposing in her heart to escape captivity with her blue eyed, four- year-old that day, she does everything she can to be noticed. Famed Texas Ranger Levi Baylor spots the red headed beauty and agrees to the war chief's price adding his personal horse and weapon to the Republic agents' offerings. The trade propels the couple on a trail of joy and sorrow. Sweet love blossoms but must be denied. His integrity and her faith in God keep them at arm's length, not allowing even a kiss. Sassy's still married to her son's father, and Levi's honor bound to deliver her home-to her husband. Can their forbidden love be made holy? God hates divorce. Is it wrong to hope, expect Nightengale to relinquish his wife and son? Will Sassy and Levi find the redemption they seek for their troubled souls?Texas Romance Family Saga- Book 1: VOW UNBROKEN- Book 2: HEART STOLEN- Book 3: HOPE REBORN- Book 4: SINS OF THE MOTHER- Book 5: DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART- Book 6: JUST KIN- Book 7: AT LIBERTY TO LOVE- Book 8: COVERING LOVE- Book 9: MIGHTY TO SAVE- Book 10: CHIEF OF SINNERSCompanion Books to Texas Romance Family Saga- Book 1: THE BEDWARMER'S SON- Book 2: SON OF PROMISE- Book 3: JOHN DAVID'S CALLING (The Revivalist Trilogy #1)- Book 4: HANNAH CLAIRE'S WILDERNESS (The Revivalist Trilogy#2)- Book 5: BIPARTISAN LOVE- Book 6: JEWEL'S GOLD

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 trust God even more to stay sane. While their fellows fought each other, best friends Josie Jo Worley and Cass Andrews battle jealousy, worry, and regret. Experience the war as one who's left behind. See how they cope. Readers aren't able to stop turning the pages.

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 up to apply for the position-of husband. The cowgirl was only trying to give her dying father hope promising to marry the first thirty-something-year-old Christian virgin to ask. Who'd ever dream one existed in all of Texas, much less Red River County? But sure enough, one comes a'courting the very next day thanks to the Lord and Daddy's baby sister, loud mouth Aunt Iris. Faith's appalled, but a promise is a promise. She only needs to figure a way out. Originally, Asa sees matrimony as a career move. He hopes a godly, local wife will seal the deal for a permanent call. Then asked right out about that very thing, he lies. Sparks fly when her past love and the preacher meet up, but as the days pass, she finds herself admiring the man and his relationship to God more and more. He's a hard worker and wonderful, fun companion. Maybe she could learn to love him. But what if New Hope doesn't call him? She loves it right where she's at. Plus what about her dying father? And there's that untruth between them.... And to make things even harder, her ex comes to Christ through it all!

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, 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.

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! Book One GONE TO TEXAS 1840 Book Two TEXAS MY TEXAS 1841

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 country ranch, and the isolation of Alaska's frozen tundra share little commonality and make going from one to another difficult at best. 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. This tale continues the breathtaking-and sometimes heartbreaking-family saga of the Buckmeyers, Baylors, and Nightingales that readers around the world have come to love.

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 every one of them, but praise God for a level-headed, loving wife and step-mother! She helps keep him sane amidst the female chaos. Packed with fun, romance, deception, action, heartbreak and tears, this delightful Christian novel keeps the twists and turns coming. 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? From one man asking to court her-who Daddy sends packing-Gwen goes to three! How can she ever decide? Cecelia knows exactly who she wants, but she's still a year away from Daddy's acceptable courting age. What if her beau doesn't know or won't wait? And Bonnie hates being the baby and wants to be grown-up more than just about anything...except her man. She is for sure and for certain in love. Will the Buckmeyer home ever be settled and peaceful again? Will any of his daughters find true love...a man he'll approve and to whom he can give his blessing?

The peace of God shall keep your hearts.The heart wants what the heart wants. Middle-aged chef Quincy and young socialite Priscilla seem like an unlikely couple, but their friends and family are sure that they can make it work. And maybe, with God's help, they can! Adding a dash of the cook's seven-year-old daughter and her best friend, Mrs. McAdoo has created a perfect recipe for fun! Readers are giggling their way through this charming historical romance.

Precept upon precept, line upon line... Isaiah 28:10 Storytelling is a gift, but the craft of writing creative fiction can be learned. It's a matter of knowing the tools and how to use them. In Story & Style, all the basics of the craft are discussed in a friendly, conversational manner and layman's terms. Indexed for easy reference with wide outside margins for personal notes, this handy book is a virtual toolbox for writers, filled with a smorgasbord of writing elements like hook, point of view, dialogue, characterization, active vs. passive, and more! Can you hook an agent or editor or reader? Do you head-hop or stay in point of view? What about those character arcs? Is your dialogue smooth and natural, or grammatically perfect, but stilted? Why aren't you packing in those five-star reviews-when you can get one? Whether you've written and published multiple novels or just starting your first one, Story & Style serves to improve your craft.

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 who 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?

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 praise with a Christian band, while he tends his growing cattle herd and shares the Good News at every opportunity. The Lord brings her home then throws them back together when Samuel agrees to help Mary Esther move and remodel her childhood home. The two lost decades vanish, and their time together convinces both the other is the true soul mate. But misunderstanding and fear keeps them from expressing their true love. Though jealousy rears its ugly head, can love and commitment hold the two together? And while they're both committed to ministering the Gospel together, can they do it as husband and wife?

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 did he call her his sister-spouse? Only God knows the answer, but the wisest man who ever lived left clues. You will never forget reading this anointed story and may find yourself setting it down to wipe tears away or simply worship the great I AM.

For earth's first couple, obedience trumps rebellion then leads to redemption. But what of their children? Seduced by evil, Cain kills Abel then flees east with his sister to the land of Nod. Bereaved of all their children in one day, Adam and Eve are heartbroken and forced to start over. Not until God allows both a vision of Abel in Paradise with their childhood pets Lion and Lamb does Eve find the strength to wait upon the Lord for His blessing. Though dead, Abel's soul lives on in Paradise, resting, learning from the old Cherub who God sent to teach the murdered son of Adam. He listens to the war songs the legions of angels sing that battle for his brother and sister and even his mother's soul. But best of all, the angel elder tells him stories of Heaven and how one day, man and God will be reconciled. Again the first couple is tested, and must wait upon the Lord's blessing to begin again. Can they walk in obedience for seventy long years? And Cain's offering is finally accepted, but by whom?

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 through the duplicity, but can he prove it?

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 strings. What they find on the prairie changes their lives forever. Promises made, promises kept, but nowhere is it written there can't be a happy ending for all. A true Texas tale to warm your heart!

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.

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 scoop an interview with a pitcher Rangers' management is hot after. Turns out George Herman Walter Johnson, at thirty-three, becomes the oldest rookie to ever sign with the Texas team. Conflict flies as the wealthy ex-poker player pitching phenom lays everything on the line in his quest to win her heart, and Sammi Dan remains wary. ONE AND DONE is an unlikely love story born of prophesy, nurtured in full view of the probing public eye, and seemingly doomed. Can his faith that she is God's woman for him carry them through to their happily-ever-after?