title: Lavender Aurora: Miss Maggie
author: Ellington, J.F.
description: Maggie Lynn Rivers a twenty-three East Texan, born and raised on the one-hundred-fifty-year-old family ranch. So naive she believes her life is a fairy tale. She allows her husband; Cal run the ranch as he sees fit. Deception and love, in Maggie’s previous uneventful life, will be her new norm after returning home from a belated five-year anniversary/honeymoon trip. Even though she’s challenged with daily ranching, her knowledge on breeding horses is unmatched. After rustlers kill Cal, she succumbs to grief and friends use this time to work in their best interest. Just as her pain eases and the acceptance of her new life, an old friend from high school visits. A sociopath, he’s obsessed with Maggie and attempts to murder her. Sam, the ranch foreman, comes to her rescue, and the friend is killed. Underestimated by many, her willpower to survive, surprises her friends. Sam and Cal’s best friend, Matt, is in love with Maggie. One has vowed to Cal to protect her, and the other desires something entirely different. While healing from her injuries, Maggie falls in love with Sam. He quickly proposes and on her wedding day, an unaware of his existence the twin brother of Cal’s appears. The next morning, she awakens in a bed with Matt as her husband. Confused, he explains she has amnesia. After several weeks, Sam rescued her a second time in her life and blamed Matt as the mastermind, who is arrested. Separated, from her protector, he flies them to Mexico to live. Dishearten about her family’s ranch was sold, and swiftly discovers who to trust and love and not too. Exceedingly happy to realize she’ll be cradling a new life in her arms in seven months. But Sam’s choice saddens her heart that he turned back to alcohol.