Too Much, Texas Books in Order

Too Much, Texas is the kind of town where gossip travels faster than a pickup, the women know their own minds, and quilting is both livelihood and language. The series follows Mary Dell Templeton, a tall, outspoken quilter whose life rarely goes the way she planned.

In Between Heaven and Texas, readers meet Mary Dell as a young woman determined to turn her superior sewing skills into something more than a sideline. Her Aunt Velvet has always warned her away from local men, but Mary Dell falls in love anyway and settles into marriage, expecting a house full of babies and a simple, happy life.

Reality is messier. Pregnancies do not come easily, and when she finally welcomes her long hoped for son, Howard, he is quickly labeled different by people who do not understand him. Mary Dell must learn to see past other people’s assumptions, advocating fiercely for a boy whose sweetness and sharp eye for color eventually become central to her work and her joy.

From Here to Home fast forwards several decades. Mary Dell now runs a successful quilt shop and co hosts a popular television show that showcases her designs and her Texas storytelling. When the network pushes her to accept a much younger co host, Holly Silva, and her son expresses a desire to stay in the city instead of returning to Too Much, Mary Dell feels the ground shift under her feet.

The book explores what it means to let a grown child with Down syndrome claim his own future, even when a mother’s instinct is to hold tight. It also digs into the awkward dance between two very different women trying to share a spotlight and eventually a friendship.

Expect plenty of quilting talk, small town festivals, and family dinners alongside honest questions about independence, aging, and the cost of big dreams.

Though the Too Much, Texas novels connect to the Cobbled Court Quilts world through shared characters, you can read them on their own as a two book saga about a woman, her son, and the community that insists on loving them both.