Caryl McAdoo

"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 attracted to her, Morgan agrees to help the...

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....

What if Abel had killed Cain, but there was no jury of his peers....

He shall choose our inheritance for us . . . A prim and proper country girl is thrown into a mayhem of madams and mercy killings 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...

Raise up your children in the way they should go, and when they are old, they will not depart from it. Getting the babies old is the key! Maisie Lowell and Rayne St. Laurent, each as beautiful as a wild Texas prairie rose, were born to privilege, reared in the fanciest hotel west of the...

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...

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...

Wealthy recluse W. G. Preston is looking to choose a wife and devises a Survivor-style game where the winner gets possibly the love of her life. The rules are never simple, and one lady is sent home each month until only Mrs. Right remains. Will Lady Luck choose practical Audrey, who lied on her...

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 her dreams—and exactly where he’s working. Of course, she convinces her father she must travel the 150 miles to meet the man of her dreams....

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not unto your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge Him and He will direct your path! An evil tragedy upends Jo's young life. Sickness propels the young lady and her grandfather from the thick, moisture-laden air of the Mississippi to...

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 Ezekiel Sheffield....

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....

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 stepfather. She decides to go to California and try to find the father she’s never known....

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 outfox 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?...

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...

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...

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 10 years ago....

Gone to Texas uncovers a deception that drives 17 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....

The untimely death of her father shatters Mary Esther Robbins’ heart and separates her from her grade school best friend, Samuel Levi Baylor. During their 20 years apart, she fulfills her life’s dream of penning new songs and singing God’s praise with a Christian band....

Tragic and triumphant, The Chief of Sinners gives listeners 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...