Bøger udgivet af Elle H. Raye

Since Madison Vanguard turned eight, her hopes to attend the same alumni as her Gramps' are dashed, but she won't give up on her dream of becoming an architectural engineer. Despite having a secret admirer, Madison remains oblivious to what's in front of her.Madison, Abbi, and Jimmy John find solace in their deep friendship as they navigate life experiences. Everyone has a purpose and faces unforeseen challenges along the way. Will their paths lead them in different directions, causing the trio to drift apart after years of friendship?New relationships form as budding romances grow. Who will see their friendship take a different route? Will they recognize God's hand in their lives?

God's Word denotes this world will test His children. As a ten-year-old, Summer Bree Cooper observes how the world's influence transpires in her small suburban neighborhood of Oak Cliff, Texas.In 1973, Summer is confronted with the biggest challenge of her young life. She opens her heart and tries to help an ailing neighbor and his granddaughter. His granddaughter has to decide her future in short order.Will the granddaughter's choice affect her soul and the baby she carries? What will she do? Will she do the unthinkable? Summer whispers a prayer at every opportunity for her new friend.Forty-eight years later, Summer Bree Cooper-Warren LPC, founder of the Angel Heart's Women Center in Hopewell, Texas, sits across from a reporter from a county magazine. She details her journey's beginning on the vocation she currently embraces and how these events initiated her decisions.

Maggie Lynn Rivers-Miles had always remained objective about love, regardless of what happened in the past. She believed that love could endure life's hardships, thanks to the principles instilled in her by her parents based on God's teachings. However, due to the tumultuous beginning of her second marriage and the ongoing events, her faith wavered.Maggie returned to Utica seven months pregnant with no money after being abandoned in a foreign country by her husband. She wondered what she would find there. Can Maggie overcome her inclination to repeat past mistakes and maintain a life centered on God? Can she trust anyone now, including her friends? Will her heart heal and fall in love with the man of God's choosing?

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 onto her faith and courage? Will God reveal her true purpose through the heartaches?

Jeanne Adams had volunteered in the local after-school programs at the primary school in Hopewell, Texas, since her sophomore year. Her desire to attend college tugged at her soul when autumn arrived, but that was impossible. After she graduated high school, something was missing...was it the kids and counselors, or was there another reason she felt discontented?Her parents often prodded her to marry when she turned nineteen in the summer went against what she envisioned. In addition, a few guys from high school always asked her out, but she rejected them, which caused frequent quarrels with her parents. She dreamed of something unlike her parents or the immature men in her small town-neither was what she wanted.Taking full advantage of her older sister- and brother-in-law's standing invitation to visit them anytime, Jeanne boarded the first available bus headed to the panhandle of Texas to make sense of her future. Upon arriving in Grove Hill, she never imagined what she'd discover would transform her life...her family...and her heart. Would Jeanne obey God's small, still voice that He is whispering or take another road?

Crystal Welch woke to face a new world-one not of her choosing. Three years earlier, Crystal was found beaten and left in a bar ditch near the small town of Quitman, Texas, for dead. Since that tragic day, amnesia has lingered. Painting, drawing, and teaching art at the local high school joyfully fills her heart. Determination drives her decision not to let her past dictate her future. But a few questions persist in the back of her mind...what is her true name...does she have a family...somewhere? Resolved with her newly established life, she embraces what God has for her future as He imparts His promises. She doesn't see what is coming with a widower, Eric Parker, and his teen daughter.Life has a way of rearing its ugly head, and it does such when a stranger arrives in town asking questions.

Survivor's guilt rears its ugly head occasionally after the murder of Emma Lee Holmes' first husband, Scott, while on their honeymoon ten years earlier. After five years of grieving, she meets and marries Barry.Well-educated businesswoman Emma knows all about success while she climbs the corporate ladder. Now at thirty-five, her lifelong plan of having children one day is inching away. Her busy schedule leaves her limited time with Barry while splitting her work schedule traveling between Austin and San Antonio for business.Her fragile relationship between her mother and sister encourages her to keep the first marriage hidden. Their constant rejection left her no alternative. But like all secrets, they're never hidden forever. A friend arrives in her hometown, and questions arise.How will these events fall into place? Will the lies, misunderstandings, and heartaches threaten her current marriage and once again cause another rift in her family relations? She questions why she cannot sustain any relationship for long.Will Emma finally trust God with her life instead of putting Him in a box and only bringing Him out when she sees fit? What does God's path look like if she does surrender to His Will?Will the shadows from her past ultimately expose the truth?

Nightly, sweet giggles from ten-year-old identical twin sisters Ashely and Alexis Jenkins fill the air as they play on their birthday. A stump near the water's edge at their parents' vacation home on Lake Texoma gives the girls a place to stretch their imagination.A disease abruptly takes one twin, leaving the other gripped with survivor's guilt for the next ten years. But during this span of time, Alexis Jenkins believes her parents, and God's promises are not what she needs.Will she open her heart again to the Lord? What's God's plan for Alexis?