Maggie McKinnon — Beatrice Smith Samples

A Novel of the Reconstruction South Born on a farm nestled in the mountains of North Georgia, beneath the lingering shadow of the Civil War, at age sixteen Margaret Ann McKinnon is cast upon the bosom of an uncaring world. Finding herself in a strange town, the sole support of her family, Maggie meets Len Evans, son of a local wealthy landowner and seemingly the answer to all her problems. But, as Maggie learns too late, Len Evans has a dark side. Plunged into heartache, Maggie struggles to keep her head above the muddy emotional waters swirling about her. She refuses to give up, and with dogged persistence and unflagging faith, battles her way through the darkness of pain and loss. Then Bartram Logan crosses her path. A man who has known loss of his own, Bart is rich, well educated -- and all business.