Caroline Madden Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Caroline Madden is a published American author.

She is a writer and a mother as well as a recovering business journalist. She has two children and she lives by the sea in Ireland. She says that she spends much of her free time fantasizing about getting a library that has a sliding ladder as well as burning down the patriarchy.

She attended SCAD, where she received her M.A. in Cinema Studies. She also received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the program and was the recipient of the Most Outstanding Thesis of the Year Award. Caroline is also an alumna of the New York Film Festival Critics Academy with Film at Lincoln Center.

Caroline also teaches film studies at Ocean County College. She is a Managing Editor of BOSS: The Biannual Online-Journal of Springsteen Studies. She has written Springsteen as Soundtrack: The Sound of the Boss in Film and Television as well as Virginity on Screen: The First Time in American Teen Films, and her fictional debut The Marriage Vendetta, which features the story of a stay at home wife who is simmering with resentment and her marriage therapist, who is vindictive.

Caroline recounts that as a child she was very shy and really enjoyed escaping into books. She wanted to become an author and wrote her first novel at ten years old but abandoned it after the first chapter. She forgot about being a writer until one evening while she was in her twenties when she was bored in a corporation tax lecture. She found herself writing a novel opening in place of writing notes, remembered how much she loved writing, and the rest is history.

The first book she remembers reading is Busy, Busy Town by Richard Scarry with her father. Jane Eyre made her want to be an author and the book that she continuously goes back to is The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir.

Fool Me Once: Should I Take Back My Cheating Husband? is a 2014 book by Caroline Madden. This is a nonfiction book written in a very specific vein and if you are unfortunately in the market for this type of help, this is a book that you might find helpful.

Self help has been all the rage for years and this is a book that offers help if you find yourself in a situation where your husband has cheated. Madden is an affair recovery specialist who has worked with couples who are dealing with issues in their relationships.

Many women say to their girlfriends over cocktails that if their man ever cheated, they would be done. They would leave him so quickly that by the end of it his head would be spinning. But once it happens, they may end up seeing that things are not quite that black and white.

Inside of this book, Madden shares the criteria that she actually uses to find out if a man is remorseful and wants to save the marriage. She shares things that might look suspicious but aren’t, signs that you should consider giving him another chance, and some signs that he is going to cheat again and you will get hurt again.

When it comes to infidelity, the people who are affected by it often need to take some time out to deal with the situation. This will give married people the tools that they may require to look at their relationship and see if your marriage can be saved. If you are in this position where you don’t know what to do, this can be like a life preserver when you are in the middle of the ocean. Check out Fool Me Once to see what Caroline Madden has to say.

The Marriage Vendetta is a 2025 novel by Caroline Madden. This is a darkly comedic novel and one that will keep contemporary fiction fans entertained from start to finish.

For main character Eliza Sheridan, revenge is now on the menu. She has about had it when it comes to her spouse Richard. He uprooted Eliza and their daughter Mara from their regular lives and switched everything up, all for his career. They were all set to move to Dublin and he said that once they got there that he would make more time for them, something that has not come about.

Eliza then receives a strange photo to Richard that features another woman and when she does, she feels like she is on the verge of filing for divorce. But she wants to be sure that she has everything straight before she does so as it is such a drastic move. And who was the anonymous person who sent her the photo? What do they have to gain by either exposing the truth or planting the idea of an affair in her mind?

Eliza visits a marriage therapist names Ms. Early who has an alternative approach to her sessions. As the sessions goes on, she ends up spurring Eliza to go through a series of vengeful acts against Richard, and all of them are stranger than the last. She says that it will help with ‘re-training’ him.

When therapy takes a turn for the riskier, everyone becomes more suspicious. Alliances starts to shift, and Eliza has to wonder just what she is willing to do to save her marriage or get back at her husband.

Could going to Ms. Early be the best thing that she has ever done, or end up being one of the worst decisions that she ever made? Will she find out that he really was having an affair, or did she somehow get false information?

This is a strange twisting novel that fans of dark comedic mystery stories will appreciate. They say write about what you know, and Caroline Madden knows marriage and affairs from her career outside of being an author. Get a copy of The Marriage Vendetta and find out why so many readers are picking this book up and being unable to put it down until they’re done!