Ian had been gone for almost two years. A gravestone in the Chance Creek Cemetery proved that fact. Two years, yet it seemed only months. She should be ready to move on, but something inside just wouldn't let go. Praying about it every night had seemed useless, so she'd given up. No use arguing with the One who knew best. God had made her a widow, and a widow she was going to stay. ~ Maggie
Caleb's Choice
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"What are you talking about?" Maggie grinned. She looked down at her brown trousers and leather boots. "Every self-respecting woman in Texas has an outfit just like this one. We Texas women aren't afraid of a little hard work."
Reba's eyebrows lifted and she smiled. "Last I knew, you were a Georgia woman. Besides, it's liable to be mighty hard to catch a man when you're dressed like one."
"Yes ma'am." Maggie suppressed a smile and nodded.There was no arguing with Reba Barkley when she got a burr under her blanket. But Georgia was a lifetime ago, or so it seemed. Going on nine years in Chance made Maggie a Texas woman now, and she had every right to claim the title.
Caleb's Choice is now available on Amazon. It is the first in a new series: Chance Creek Brides, The Early Years.
Chance Creek, Texas, 1875. When Maggie and her husband, Ian Price, led a group of displaced southerners to Texas just after the Civil War, she never imagined that she would be the one left in charge of them. After the murder of her husband, she inherited the job of town sheriff. The town is all but held hostage by the Sayer brothers, one of them the killer of Maggie's husband. Ignoring the brewing disappointment and bitterness within, she does her best to keep the town going, settling minor disputes, and generally encouraging the citizens to have hope that the future will be better. But the job is too much for a woman alone. Maggie knows she should trust God to handle the problem, but she feels He has let her down in the past. How can she trust Him for the future?
Widowed Caleb Hatcher is a man doing his best to leave the past behind. Anxious to start a new life, he heads for Texas, with ranching on his mind. Greeted with a bullet in his side, Caleb soon learns that there is more to the town of Chance than he could have imagined. And more to Maggie Price, the beautiful and sometimes hard to understand woman that rescued him from certain death.
Will Maggie learn that God has His own way of working things out? Or will she allow her own stubborn will to lead her down the wrong path?
Knowing God's will isn't always easy. Was Caleb the answer to Maggie's prayers for Chance? And what about for herself? Maybe God had something different in mind. Only time would tell. And sometimes it seemed as if time was running out for the town. And for her own heart, as well.
Something scurried to his left and he quickly turned. In a blink of an eye, a loud boom sounded and searing pain ripped through his side. The rifle slipped from his hands as the landscape began to spin. he reached blindly to steady himself, but his fingers grasped only air. Amanda's name on his lips, he fell backwards into a spinning maze of agony and darkness.
