Celia Hayes

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2004
  • Latest Book:
    December 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Adelsverein

1 - The Gathering (Jan-2012)
2 - The Sowing (Jan-2012)
3 - The Harvesting (Jan-2012)

Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • Our Grandpa Was An Alien

    A humorous memoir of growing up in mid-20th century Middle America, the oldest of four children, in an eccentric household where the refrigerator was likely to contain home-made grape jelly, and a bag of dead mice....

  • Adelsverein

    Ideals, friendship and cruel circumstance collide as war comes to the Hill Country. Book 2 of the trilogy continues the epic story of how one family of German immigrants became American, through the wrenching tragedy of the Civil War....

  • Daughter of Texas

    A woman's life in Texas, before the cattle drives, before the Alamo. Before the legends were born. She was there, and she saw it all.

    Margaret Becker came to Texas with her parents and her younger brothers in 1825, in two Conestoga wagons, wi...

  • The Adelsverein Trilogy

    *From the Old World to the New - * The frontier would challenge them. Brutal war would test them, in a crucible of fire. But they would endure and build. They would prosper and in the end …They would become Americans* *The...

  • To Truckee's Trail

    The greatest adventure never told ... until now! In the year of 1844, a party of fifty men, women and children set out for California from Council Bluffs, Iowa. The men and women of this party are looking for different things by undertaking this long...

  • Deep in the Heart

    Margaret Becker Vining's life in frontier Texas was extraordinary. She knew everyone who was anyone in the Republic of Texas: the widowed mother of four sons, a political hostess, a friend, a witness to the early days ... and a survivor of war and he...

  • Happy Families

    A collection of blog entries about my family, and growing up as an eccentric baby boomer in the wilds of one of Southern California's distant suburb; our parents, our pets, our friends and our various neighbors and teachers....

  • Persons, Places & History

  • The Gathering

    Adelsverein - 1

    Adelsverein - a group of German noblemen formed a society to encourge immigration to 19th century Texas. They offered land, homes, new lives ... and freedom. 7,000 settlers accepted the offer. Book One of the Adelsverein Trilogy begins the story of t...



  • The Harvesting

    Adelsverein - 3

    Adelsverein: The Harvesting brings the saga of the Becker and Richter families in the Texas Hill Country to a triumphant conclusion in this final volume of the Adelsverein Trilogy.

    The Civil War is over and the soldiers return home, to take u...

  • The Sowing

    Adelsverein - 2

    delsverein: The Sowing is Volume 2 of the Adelsverein Trilogy, following the fortunes of German settlers who came to Texas seeking land and political freedom in the 19th century through the auspices of the Mainzer Adelsverein - a consortium of German...

  • Adelsverein

    The Steinmetz family and their friends have settled in the wild and beautiful Texas Hill Country. They have made peace with the Comanche, built new homes, and happy and prosperous livesNbut all of this is threatened by the advent of the Civil War....

  • Only A Paper Star & Other Stories

    A collection of 8 original stories by the author of the Adelsverein Trilogy, focusing on diverse characters; three women NCOs during Operation Desert Storm, a young girl in the Civil War-era Texas Hill Country, and two stand-alone adventures from the...

  • The Quivera Trail

    The Quivera Trail is intended as a sequel to the Adelsverein Trilogy,
     following the second generation and Dolph Becker courting and marrying Isobel Lindsay-Groves. Desperate to marry, Isobel and her personal maid, Jane Goodacre embark at Southa...

  • Lone Star Sons

    The first in a thrilling, old-fashioned Western adventure series, featuring a young Texas Ranger, James Reade, who joins forces with Delaware Indian Scout Toby Shaw, to solve mysteries, find long-lost treasure, rescue the helpless, and track down bad...

  • Sunset and Steel Rails

    In the year 1885, proper young Bostonian Sophia Brewer flees everything she has ever known, in fear of her life and takes up a new life in the West under another name, as a Harvey Girl working in railroad stop restaurants. She finds independence and ...

  • Luna City 3.1

    Welcome to Luna City; a scenic small town in Karnes County, Texas, home of the champion Mighty Fighting Moths high school football team - which doesn't win too many games any more, but the marching band are state-wide champions. The heart of downt...

  • The Golden Road

    Restless sixteen-year-old Fredi Steinmetz longed for adventure and riches, especially when his serious-minded twin brother returned to Germany to study medicine. What better way to go about finding both then to go west, following the Gold Rush fro...

  • The Difference Between You and Me

    Can stepping out of your comfort zone lead you to ultimate happiness? A feisty rom-com, perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane and Tracey Bloom.

    Trudy Watts has everything she's ever dreamed of: a job that she loves, a successful boyfrie...



  • Luna City IV

    Welcome to Luna City, Texas - the little town on the banks of the San Antonio River, home of the Mighty Fighting Moths high school football team, the far-flung (and tightly intertwined) Gonzalez and Gonzales clan, a runaway former celebrity chef s...

  • Lone Star Glory

    The Republic of Texas is the place; the time is the 1840s, where Texas Ranger Jim Reade investigates mysterious deaths and disappearances, with the aid of his friend and blood-brother, the Delaware scout, Toby Shaw. In this sequel to Lone Star Son...

  • Who's that Girl?

    A funny, feel-good romantic comedy. Perfect for fans of Fiona Gibson and Jo Watson.

    Sam Preston appears to be living the glamorous life of a journalist at the San Francisco Chronicle...

    If only that was the case... in reality, s...

  • One Half Dozen of Luna City

    Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456, give or take ... Business at the Luna Café & Coffee is looking uo for fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall. The owners - elderly schoolteacher Miss Letty, and the irasc...

  • Luna City Lucky Seven

    Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456, give or take! Fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall has become a valued member of the community, expanding service at the Café, keeping company with local ace reporter K...

  • Luna City Behind the 8 Ball

    Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456, give or take! Fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall is beset with travails in his attempt to build a new life in tiny Luna City - providing caviar cuisine on a canned tun...

  • The Luna City Compendium #1

    Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas! Population ... well, that varies, depending on the time of year. Luna City; whose Town Square is the architectural jewel of South Texas.

    Where the high school football team is called the Mighty Fig...

  • The Luna City Compendium #2

    Welcome back to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,456, depending. Depending on births, new residents, grandchildren retuning to the ancestral nest ... and of course, the regular return of treasure-hunters, ghost hunters, curious tou...

  • The Luna City Compendium #3

    The third Luna City collection, with the complete text of Luna City Lucky Seven, Luna City Behind the 8-Ball and Luna City : Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine: the continuing rural comedy of life in a small town in South Texas....

  • My Dear Cousin

    When Peggy Becker married Englishman Tommy Morehouse in San Antonio in the spring of 1938, her cousin and best friend Venetia Vennie Stoneman was her bridesmaid. After the wedding, Peg and Tommy traveled across the Pacific to Malaya, where Tommy mana...



  • Luna City X

    Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas … Population 2,457, give or take! Fugitive former celebrity chef Richard Astor-Hall has decided to make some serious changes to his life … and propose to his girlfriend, Kate Heisel. But the pa...

  • Lone Star Blood

    The Continuing adventures of Texas Ranger Jim Reade and his blood-brother Toby Shaw in the days of the Republic of Texas! A pair of eccentric English explorers ask for a guide into a dangerous country, seeking not a fortune ... but something more! Th...

  • That Fateful Lightning

    There wasn't much of an outlet for an ordinary American woman with ambitions in the 184os; marriage and family was as good as it got back then, for most women ... But Minnie Vining wasn't an ordinary woman. A spinster in her forties, of a respected o...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Celia Hayes has published 32 books.

Celia Hayes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, That Fateful Lightning, was published in December 2023.

The first book by Celia Hayes, Our Grandpa Was An Alien, was published in July 2004.

Yes. Celia Hayes has 1 series.
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