Completed Manuscript
The Labyrinth: When Maggie Duncan, an insecure new mother has a particularly stressful day, she forgets to take her insulin. Unable to meet her standards for perfection and pleasing everyone, she yearns with a silent plea asking for help in becoming the person she wants to be. She lapses into a diabetic coma and travels out of body to another world where she encounters beings. Are they demons or angels? They force her through a labyrinth of trials. She experiences fear, help, and danger along with pride, hope and a fierce longing for her son.
She perseveres, led to believe if she doesn't give up, she will get home to her son. What makes her crash? She reaches the end of her stamina, having tried everything to escape the labyrinth, has failed, and has nothing left.
As she rises, she sees only the light, life and love within herself and discovers it is enough. She rejects her 'advisors' and relies on her own heart. She awakens in her hospital bed, her husband and son close by.
Soon recovered, her altered approach to life manifests, to her son, her husband and others.
In 1864, a young Scottish landowner, Robert MacLean, is forced by Scottish turmoil to immigrate to British North America, leaving behind all that he knows, except his anger.
His father honed Robert, the outcome a rigid strong fighting man, but Robert's secret desire? Peace. An unusual betrothal forces Robert to marry a woman he does not know.
Robert's fierce desire to establish a peaceful homestead legacy for his awaited heir drives him west into uncharted wilderness. When his marriage of convenience turns to love, he discovers her betrayal, and anger boils.
Is the threat of losing her strong enough to break the binding force of tradition? Or will he punish and abandon his wife to embrace his pride and expectations from his dead father?
