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(Touchstone June 19, 2007)
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Victoria Christopher Murray always knew she would become an author, even as she was taking quite an unlikely path to that destination. A native of Queens, New York, Victoria first left New York to attend Hampton Institute in Virginia where she majored in Communication Disorders. After graduating from Hampton, Victoria attended New York University where she received her MBA.Victoria spent ten years in Corporate America before she decided to test her entrepreneurial spirit. She opened a Financial Services Agency for Aegon, USA where she managed the number one division for nine consecutive years. However, Victoria never lost the dream to write and when the “bug” hit her again in 1997, she answered the call.
Victoria originally self published Temptation. “I wanted to write a book as entertaining and compelling as any of the books on the market, put God in the middle, and have the book still be a page-turner. I wasn’t writing to any particular genre – I didn’t even know Christian fiction existed. I just wanted to write about people I knew and characters I could relate to.”
In 2000, Time Warner published Temptation. Temptation made numerous best sellers list across the nation and remained on the Essence bestsellers list for nine consecutive months. In 2001, Temptation was nominated for an NAACP Image Award in Outstanding Literature.
Since Temptation, Victoria has written four other novels: JOY, Truth Be Told, Grown Folks Business, and A Sin and a Shame. All of her novels have continued to be Essence bestsellers; her last three each reaching #1. In addition, Victoria has received numerous awards including the Golden Pen Award for Best Inspirational Fiction and in 2006, she was awarded the Phyllis Wheatley Trailblazer Award for being the pioneer in African American Christian Fiction.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Ex Files:A Novel About Four Women and Faith...
When Kendall Stewart finds her husband and her sister in bed together, she vows to never let anyone get that close again. But when she is faced with saving the life of the woman who destroyed hers, will she be able to forgive?
When an NBA superstar tells his mistress, Asia Ingrum, that he's decided to honor his marriage vows, her shock quickly gives way to revenge...but her decision may come back to haunt their five-year-old daughter.
Every night Vanessa Martin wonders why her husband committed suicide. Even worse, she contemplates joining him in eternity. Will Vanessa be able to gather the strength to live again?
Sheridan Hart is finally finding her way after a lie destroyed her seventeen-year marriage. Her new love is ready to get married, but will she commit to this younger man or is her ex-husband taking up too much space in her heart?
When their pastor asks Kendall, Asia, Vanessa, and Sheridan to meet weekly for prayer, they can't imagine they will have anything in common. But then a devastating tragedy strikes and these strangers are forced to reexamine their choices. Will they find true friendship, or will prayer -- and their union -- fail them?
Me: Kendall hates her sister Sabrina for sleeping with her husband. But now her sister has leukemia, will she get past her hatred to be able to give her a bone marrrow transplant? And can she ever forgive?
All Asia wants is revenge, she finds out Bobby's wife knew about the affair and allowed it to go on till she wanted it stopped. Then she goes too far and uses her daughters fear of child predators that she is learning about in school. Will Asia end up destroying everything?
While attending the prayer group, Vanessa seems like the one who has the most strength. That even though her husband died, she's a survivor. But with her mother always bothering her, and her friends letting her down...things just may not work out for her.
Sheridan has come a long way in dealing with her divorce in the past three years. She has a new boyfriend who wants to marry her, but she keeps saying wait... Meanwhile she catches her daughter kissing a grl and wonders if she is gay like her ex-husband. Her daughter said they were experimenting, but her friend's mother forbids them to see each other. Then her friend Lara shuns her in school and tells everyone she's a lesbian, just like her father is gay. So for a thirteen year old she thinks her life is pretty much over and wants to change schools. Sheridan doesn't want her to, then she also gets involved in a fight and gets suspended. So she is spending a lot of time talking with ex-husband about their daughter, and her boyfriend, Brock, thinks that she should forbid her daughter from seeing him, or at least for awhile till this is straightened out. They can't agree on this so they break up because he says her heart still belongs to her ex. Will she ever get back together with Brock?
This is a great read for anyone. Whether you are married, single, separated, divorced, or widowed. It deals with a lot of issues in relationships that people have to struggle with and how they can get through them. Well done!
The book link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1416535519
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