McClellan Family Books in Order

The McClellan Family books are Goodman in sweeping historical-adventure mode. Set around the American Revolution, they move between England and the colonies and give the romances a larger political frame. These are stories of divided loyalties, dangerous travel, spies, family ties, and people trying to claim both freedom and love at the same time.

The historical setting is doing real work here.

In Crystal Passion, Salem McClellan and Ashley Lynne are thrown together by a guardian's cruelty and a rescue that quickly becomes larger than one household quarrel. The novel carries them from London to Virginia and into the uncertainty of a world about to break apart.

Seaswept Abandon keeps the family saga going with Rae McClellan, who takes on risky work as a courier for the colonies, and Jericho Smith, a spy whose own loyalties and inheritance are under strain. It is probably the clearest example in the series of how Goodman mixes political danger with intimate trust.

Then Tempting Torment brings the main arc toward a close through a marriage-of-convenience story shaped by wartime pressures, family obligations, and the ongoing McClellan world. Tidewater Promise is shorter, but it works nicely as an extra visit, a softer coda that still fits the series' concern with family and enduring attachment.

Readers who want powdered wigs and drawing rooms should look elsewhere. This series is more about roads, ships, coded loyalties, and the uncertainty of building a country while also trying to build a life with another person.