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Featured Fiction Friday: All My Belongings, by Cynthia Ruchti!

We love authors here at MBT, and love to celebrate great reads (especially the kind that you could pick up and read over the weekend!!

I love Cynthia’s stories – and did you know her books have been recognized by RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, Retailers’ Choice Award, Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, and Carol Award nominations, among other honors, including a Family Fiction Readers’ Choice Award. Most of all, Cynthia is a genuinely caring, awesome person who I LOVE hanging out with!!

I asked her to come by and share with you a bit about her newest story!

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Featured Fiction Friday with James L. Rubart

The Frasier Entries are in! Now all we can do is sit down, cuddle up with our bags of popcorn, and wait for the results. In the meantime though, My Book Therapy will spend Fridays introducing you to the work of our all-powerful judges. This week we are pleased to introduce you to James L. Rubart and his new book: The Chair. Q: Tell us about your Book. A: If someone gave you a chair and said it was made by Jesus Christ, would you believe them?  When an elderly lady shows up in Corin Roscoe’s antiques store and gives him a chair she claims was crafted by Jesus, he scoffs. But when a young boy is miraculously healed two days after sitting in the chair, he stops laughing and starts wondering . . […]

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Featured Fiction! Shades of Truth by Sandra Orchard

MISSION: HIDDEN IDENTITY Big city detective Ethan Reed is working deep undercover at a Christian youth detention center. The kind of place he spent some harrowing time in as a kid. Ethan’s mission: ferret out who’s recruiting resident teens for a drug ring. He expects help from the lovely, devoted director of Hope Manor. But Kim Corbett won’t tell Ethan anything— even when she’s threatened and attacked. When Ethan discovers what Kim is protecting, his guarded heart opens just a bit wider. Enough to make this the most dangerous assignment of his career. Book 2 in series, Undercover Cops:
 Fighting for justice puts their lives—and hearts—on the line. Excerpt: Kim’s expression hardened. “I was thinking about the damage that rumors of a hit and run by a former resident would […]

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Fabulous Read by our own Lisa Jordan! Lakeside Reunion

Susie here:  I admit that I am rather picky about the books I read for enjoyment. I read so much that a book has to wrap me up in its world and whisk me away into the characters lives for me to enjoy it. I know it’s a great book when I stop editing and just savor. I did exactly this with Lisa Jordan’s debut novel, Lakeside Reunion.  It was absolutely fabulous.  From a storycrafting perspective, she nailed it.  The plot is perfectly paced, the tension delicious, the scenes rich with conflict, the romance spot on.  She even writes and amazing kiss!  And the wordsmithing – oh, the storyworld in this book is rich and adeptly painted, the dialogue crisp, the sentences active and vivid.   As a My Book Therapist, this story […]

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