Aurora Hearts Series

Love Echoes

A pampered upbringing, Maggie Lynn McNeil-Rivers grew up on her family’s two-century-old ranch, the Aurora. Since birth, her father has asked for his daughter to be called ‘Miss Maggie.’ The death of her mother when Maggie was fifteen challenged her father with raising a teen. Laura Webb joined the household when Maggie’s mother became ill. She cared for the family, cooking, cleaning, tending the garden, and doing whatever was necessary.

Maggie’s father’s untimely death three years later toughened Maggie to take control and run the three-thousand-acre ranch. She married within months after her eighteenth birthday to Cal Rivers—a professional bull rider and friend to her neighbor, Matt Daniels, who he met on the circuit. Early in their marriage, Maggie miscarries from a horseback accident.

Soon after Cal’s death by rustlers, Sam declares his belated love to Maggie and proposes. Unbeknownst to Maggie, Matt is determined to keep a promise he made to his dying friend. Reality comes knocking through the onset of tragic events shaping her heart and character. How can she hold on to her faith and courage? Will God reveal her true purpose through the heartaches?

Love's Destiny

Maggie Lynn Rivers-Miles’ two-century family ranch is sold out from underneath her. Her seven-month marriage to Sam Miles, the former foreman of the Aurora, is strained over his habitual drinking and gambling addictions. This isn’t the man he portrayed to her family or her for the last ten years.

Five months earlier, Sam rescued her from Matt Daniels and whisked her and her friend, Laura, off to Rosario, Mexico. Maggie, now seven months pregnant, Sam abandons them in a foreign country. Maggie must return to Texas for the trial of her kidnapper, Matt. Disgraced by poor decisions, she has to face old friends and her kidnapper alone.

As a single mother, Maggie is determined to raise her baby with the same Christ-like values she’d been—even though she put God in the backseat of her life for far too long. In need of a job, she takes a position as a ranch hand at her kidnapper’s father’s ranch. Gossip spreads fast in the small town of Utica.

Will Maggie mature, learn from her mistakes, and keep God in the center of her life?