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Angels Everywhere
The Angels Everywhere series by Debbie Macomber has 7 known books (7 published) and is best read in publication order, starting with A Season of Angels (1993).
- Books
- 7 known books (7 novels)
- Published
- 7
- First published
- 1993
- Status
- completed
- Shelved under
- Romance
- Last checked
Start here: A Season of Angels (1993) — then read straight through in publication order.
Reading order
The date order of published books and any announced future entries — the default way to read the series.
- Book 1:
A Season of Angels
A Season of Angels opens Debbie Macomber's Angels Everywhere series in 1993, setting up The Trouble with Angels to follow. It introduces trainee guardian angels Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy, whose well-meaning matchmaking mischief with a new human couple gives the series its distinctive, faith-inflected comic tone.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of A Season of Angels - Book 2:
The Trouble with Angels
The Trouble with Angels, part of Angels Everywhere, was published in 1994 and runs 337 pages. Like the rest of Macomber's angel books, it follows Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy as they meddle -- with the best of intentions -- in a new couple's path to love.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of The Trouble with Angels - Book 3:
Touched by Angels
Arriving in 1995, Touched by Angels continues Angels Everywhere between The Trouble with Angels and Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, pairing the trio of bumbling trainee angels with a fresh couple in Macomber's recurring blend of small-scale romance and gentle supernatural comedy.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Touched by Angels - Book 4:
Shirley, Goodness and Mercy
At 3 pages, Shirley, Goodness and Mercy falls between Touched by Angels and Those Christmas Angels in Angels Everywhere, giving its title trio -- Macomber's trainee guardian angels -- their most direct billing in the series.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Shirley, Goodness and Mercy - Book 5:
Those Christmas Angels
Those Christmas Angels sits between Shirley, Goodness and Mercy and Where Angels Go in Angels Everywhere's publication order, arriving in 2003. Like several entries in the series, it leans into the Christmas-season miracles and last-minute matchmaking that became Angels Everywhere's signature, later echoed in Macomber's Hallmark adaptations.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Those Christmas Angels - Book 6:
Where Angels Go
Where Angels Go arrived 4 years after Those Christmas Angels, continuing Angels Everywhere in 2007 with another human couple assigned to Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy's well-intentioned interference.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Where Angels Go - Book 7:
Angels at the Table
Angels at the Table, part of Angels Everywhere, was published in 2012 and runs 615 pages. It's one of Macomber's later returns to the series, picking up her trainee guardian angels again nearly two decades after A Season of Angels first introduced them.
Alternative text for cover: Cover of Angels at the Table
About the Angels Everywhere series
Angels Everywhere is Debbie Macomber's long-running series of gentle, faith-inflected romances narrated in part by a trio of bumbling trainee guardian angels -- Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy -- who are dispatched to earth to help mismatched couples find love, usually making a fair amount of well-meaning chaos along the way. Each book follows a new human couple the angels are assigned to nudge together, blending Macomber's usual small-scale relationship drama with a genuinely supernatural, often comic framing device rare in her other work.
The series became strongly associated with the Christmas season -- several entries are explicitly holiday-set, and the angels' interventions frequently revolve around Christmas miracles, reconciliations, and last-minute matches timed to the season. It spun off into one of the more recognizable adaptations of Macomber's catalog: Hallmark's Mrs. Miracle and later Signed, Sealed, Delivered-adjacent programming drew on the same guardian-angel, small-town-miracle sensibility, though the direct Angels Everywhere books themselves were also separately adapted for television.
Spanning nearly two decades between its first and last entries, the series shows Macomber returning periodically to Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy whenever a new angelic matchmaking premise struck her, rather than following a tight continuing timeline.
Frequently asked questions
How many books are in the Angels Everywhere series?
Seven novels, from A Season of Angels (1993) to Angels at the Table (2012).
Who are Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy?
They're the three trainee guardian angels who narrate and drive the plots of the Angels Everywhere series, dispatched to help mismatched human couples find love.
Do I need to read Angels Everywhere in order?
No -- each book follows a different couple the angels are assigned to, so they can be read in any order.
Is Angels Everywhere a Christmas series?
Several entries are explicitly Christmas-set, and the series has a strong holiday-miracle sensibility throughout, though not every book is set during the holidays.
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