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I AM My Beloved Kindle Edition

by Caryl McAdoo (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
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.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07C9XS2QL
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2018
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 7.5 MB
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Caryl McAdoo

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Caryl McAdoo, praying her story gives God glory, loves writing about all Christian genres--historical and contemporary romance, Biblical fiction, mystery, and children, middle-grade, and young adults. In March 2014, after ten years published and nine titles from regional presses, Simon and Schuster debuted Caryl's VOW UNBROKEN, her first historical Christian romance set in 1832 in her new hometown of Clarksville, seat of Red River County in the far Northeast corner of Texas.

Later that year, the prolific author followed with three additional titles independently, LADY LUCK'S A LOSER, contemporary romance, HEARTS STOLEN, book two of her historical Texas Romance Family Saga series set in 1839-1844, an Amazon #1 Best-seller, and A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS, volume one of her first Biblical fiction series, The Generations, also an Amazon #1 Best-seller.

In an exciting 2015--with God's help--she independently released eleven new releases! Three for her historical Texas Romance Family Saga, three for The Generations Biblical fiction series, three for the contemporary Red River Romances Romance series (RRRs), a non-fiction book on writing, and book one of a new mid-grade series Days of Dread Trilogy. This amazing accomplishment went as follows:

HOPE REBORN (1850-1851) - January - book three of Texas Romance Family Saga seriess--a #1 Amazon Best-seller

THE PREACHER'S FAITH - February - the first contemporary RRRs launched

THEN THE DELUGE COMES March - volume 2 of The Generations series

SING A NEW SONG April - book two RRRs launched

SINS OF THE MOTHERS (1851-1853) May - book four of her Texas Romance Family Saga series debuted

STORY & STYLE, The Craft of Writing Creative Fiction - June - a handbook for writers

ONE AND DONE - July - the third RRRs, for Baseball lovers and those who are not

REPLENISH THE EARTH - August - volume three The Generations series

DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART (1854) September - book five of her Texas Romance Family Saga series

THE KING'S HIGHWAY - October - book one of the Days of Dread Trilogy for mid-grade/YA.

CHILDREN OF EDEN - November - volume four of The Generations series

She's completed the Texas Romance Family Saga, covering over a century and five generations of the families with:

JUST KIN (1861-1865), book six

AT LIBERTY TO LOVE (1865-1866), book seven

COVERING LOVE (1885-886), book eight

MIGHTY TO SAVE (1914-1924), book nine

CHIEF OF SINNERS (1926-1950) book ten

Loving the characters too much to leave them, she started a series of "Texas Companion Books" using the ancestors and descendants of these beloved families. There are seven "Texas Companion Books now:

THE BEDWARMER'S SON with two parallel stories in 1859 and 1926)

SON OF PROMISE (1951) and

BIPARTISAN Love (1968)--these two titles have the same hero Cody, a twelve-year-old in the first and grown in the next

JOHN DAVID'S CALLING (1968-1970) book one in The Revivalist Trilogy has and

HANNAH CLAIRE'S WILDERNESS (1971-1972) book two of The Revivalist Trilogy

JEWEL'S GOLD (1895) of the "Gold Diggers Collection"

SING A NEW SONG (contemporary and also a Red River Romance)

The prolific author has joined several multi-author collections, organizing a few herself, with more historical romance stories. Her first was "Lockets and Lace" with:

SILENT HARMONY (1867) in 2018

UNIQUELY COMMON (1850-1851) in 2019, and

BITTER HONEY in 2020.

The "Thanksgiving Books & Blessings Collection" also began a new Family Saga, the "Cross Timbers Romance" series:

GONE TO TEXAS (1840), book one also part of 2018 "Thanksgiving Books & Blessings Collection"

TEXAS MY TEXAS (1841), book two

TEXAS TEARS (1845), book three also part of 2019 "Thanksgiving Books & Blessings Collection"

LEAVING TEXAS (1850), book four

TEXAS TROUBLES (1860), book five also part of 2020 "Thanksgiving Books & Blessings Collection"

TEXAS TRAILS (1867), book six

TEXAS TIMBERS (1873), book seven also part of 2021 "Thanksgiving Books & Blessings Collection"

TEXAS WILDFLOWERS (1875) book eight also part of 2022 "Thanksgiving Books & Blessings Collection"

TEXAS TIMES (1878) book nine also part of 2023 "Thanksgiving Books & Blessings Collection"

She organized the "Prairie Roses Collection" (covered wagon stories) with her:

REMI (1851) released in 2019

LILAH (1859) released in 2020

RUTH (1850) released in 2021

JO (1850) released in 2022 and

AVA (1854) released in 2023

And the "Gold Diggers" with JEWEL'S GOLD (1885), also a Texas Companion Book

She also joined the North & South Collection with KENTUCKY BRIDE and

A Nurse Collection with A NURSE FOR JACOB.

Branching out into the cozy mystery genre with a couple of her favorite Cross Timbers Romance" characters, Morgan and Charity Lowell (from books 4,6,7,8,and 9) as amateur slueths in the mid-800s of Dallas, Texas:

DUPLICITY at the Lowell House,

SKULLDUGGERY in the Sulphur River Bottoms, and

COERCION at the Cow Palace.

Her "Days of Dread" trilogy, a dystopian Endtime story is earning many great reviews!

THE KING'S HIGHWAY

THE SIXTH TRUMPET and

THE KIDRON VALLEY

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Customers find this book to be a wonderful retelling of Abishag's story, describing it as an excellent novel of love. They appreciate its spiritual content, with one customer noting how it brings scriptures to life.

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Customers find the book's story beautiful, describing it as a wonderful retelling of biblical times and an excellent novel of love.

"...I do not agree with the author's idea but the story is so beautiful...." Read more

"...This story is blessed with so much gentle inspiration, that this reviewer enjoyed it immensely." Read more

"A wonderful fictional biblical story based on Abishag who was brought as a young girl to the aging King David to help keep him warm and care for him...." Read more

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Customers appreciate the spiritual content of the book, with one customer noting how it brings scriptures to life, while another mentions how it helps understand biblical times better.

"...As I write this review, my spirit is still rejoicing in this wonderful book. If anyone desire a romantic, God read, please read this book...." Read more

"...But, do read this story as I know you will find it lovely and enjoyable in how Abishag is allowed to lean on God as her beloved and take comfort in..." Read more

"...an obscure biblical woman brought to life, with much more explicit attention to biblical facts than many "Christian" fiction authors...." Read more

"...I enjoyed the story and was drawn in by her love of God and how she sang and danced before Him...." Read more

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  • Lois Thompson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Super Fantastic!!
    Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2022
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    What a Book! I opened this book and found it hard to put down and when I did I couldn't wait to get back to my page that I had left. My spirit soared as I read I AM My Beloved! The Lord had to be with Caryl McAdoo for the wisdom she displayed in writing this wonderful book. Through her eyes and with the help of the
    Lord I begun to see a different side of Israel two blessed kings, King David and King Rehoboam! As I write this review, my spirit is still rejoicing in this wonderful book. If anyone desire a romantic, God read, please read this book. I highly recommend it. Thank you Caryl McAdoo and may God continue to bless you and your wonderful works.
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  • leafs
    4.0 out of 5 stars Little known facts brought to life
    Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2022
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    There is much to be discovered from our past. How the wisest man on earth could sin so greatly and abandon the laws of the God that his father loved and the God who blessed him with more wisdom than others is beyond comprehension.

    I love the story of this Virgin Queen who loved both father and son.

    The idea of Abishag being the voice to sing with Solomon is heart filled.

    I do not agree with the author's idea but the story is so beautiful.

    My study of history and Scripture shows that the Queen of Sheeba to actually be a virgin by tradition in her culture and her daughter to follow her to the throne to be adopted. Her visit to Solomon proves to be the end of that tradition as she is married to him in order for him to show her the love of a husband towards a wife as God intended while sacrificial in that he allowed her to take their son back to Sheeba to become their first king without any influence from Solomon in the rule of her kingdom by him as her king husband.

    The love of God and His willingness to sacrifice his son is seen in this sacrificial love they shared, though be it for such a short, short time. Their love produced the first king of Sheeba and the Song of Songs. Research history to verify this account.

    But, do read this story as I know you will find it lovely and enjoyable in how Abishag is allowed to lean on God as her beloved and take comfort in the truth that she is God's beloved as well.
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  • Cass Wessel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tender Story
    Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2018
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    If you love Biblical novels, this is a book for you. The reader joins Abishag as a wide-eyed teenager hastily betrothed and married to the aged and slowly dying King David. The reader follows her life through his reign and into the intrigues of the court of King Solomon. On tenderhooks, we flip pages seeking to discover what will happen next, even if we know our Bible stories well. Like some scholars, we might have forgotten the final pages of her life since most of us focus on the Kings and their heirs. We really consider her almost a footnote in the story. Caryl McAdoo's book demonstrates how wrong such assumptions can be.

    While this book keeps our attention, this is no thriller, nor is it a steamy book. There are bedroom scenes when Abishag must be King David's electric blanket warming up a King whose failing heart cannot do the job, but there's nothing sexual about it. There's palace intrigue, but it's seen through Abishag's innocent eyes. This story is blessed with so much gentle inspiration, that this reviewer enjoyed it immensely.
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  • Warble
    3.0 out of 5 stars Thoughts on biblical and theological perspective.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2022
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    Spoiler alert. I respect and appreciate the author's explicit biblical studies background given in the book. Admittedly, for Abishag to be the bride in the Song of Solomon, is a stretch (as the author notes), though not an impossible one. I'll come back to that.

    My biggest concern is that, by the end, this book sounds like it's elevating a marital relationship without sex as being more loving -- a more pure love, more spiritual or more heavenly, or whatever. Very misplaced and very unbiblical, with dangerous spiritual implications for readers. And it completely misses the point of the SOS (Song of Solomon).

    The SOS is written to express God's blessing (by being included in God's inspired Scriptures) upon the physical relationship and passion -- along with love and caring and cherishing that are designed to go with it -- in the marriage relationship. And if you really read the SOS carefully, with its numerous direct and indirect (poetic) references to details of the female anatomy, it's hard to miss that. (I'd recommend a classic book -- Solomon on Sex, by Joseph C. Dillow).

    As for whether Abishag is the bride in the SOS? This bride is dark-skinned (suggesting darker than Solomon's/Jewish pigmentation). She had brothers (or step-brothers) who despised her, she worked in vineyards (apparently in addition to herding goats). It's been some years since I studied the book, but I'm not sure if this bride might have resided (at least part of the time) somewhere else besides Jerusalem (to the North I think? -- but not sure of that).

    Anyway, interesting to see an obscure biblical woman brought to life, with much more explicit attention to biblical facts than many "Christian" fiction authors. I simple cannot agree with the overall conclusion and its implications for the reader's world view and, as a result, implications for life.
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  • Lorel Kline
    5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful retelling of Abishag
    Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2020
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    A wonderful fictional biblical story based on Abishag who was brought as a young girl to the aging King David to help keep him warm and care for him. This follows the story of the rest of her life what it might have been after the death of King David and Solomon is King. A rewarding life at times when she is with the new king or worship God but lonely at times when she is alone. She did have a wonderful relationship with Bathsheba, Solomon's mother. I enjoyed the story and was drawn in by her love of God and how she sang and danced before Him. Come and enjoy this beautiful story of Abishag written by a wonderful author, Caryl McAdoo.
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  • Ellen Oceanside
    4.0 out of 5 stars LOVE IN BIBLICAL TIMES
    Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2018
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    Abishag has a visitor, real or her parents feel imaginary. Whisper in her ear, “That she would lie with Kings, mother of none”. before he vanished. As she grew, the angel visited with her, would prophesy be told thru her. A poetry of love, to be read, and the love for her, in this story. How her life unfolded, would it be, as told, when she was young. Enjoyable moving story of biblical times.
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  • Sheila
    3.0 out of 5 stars Queen to 3 kings?
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 1, 2023
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    I am always interested in biblical fiction especially when it prompts me to go back to Scripture to check what it says. I finished this book but found it unrealistic in making Abishag so important to 3 kings. Solomon’s reasoning and neglect of her did not make sense. I did receive a copy in a promotion.
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