TEMPTATION by Victoria Christopher Murray is a novel no reader will soon forget. It is full of contemporary characters who struggle to keep their strength, friendships, and daily lives framed by the Word of God.

Kyla and Jefferson Blake count their sixteen years together as a wonderful blessing from God. Their marriage is passionate, their daughter is a joy, Jefferson's medical career is prospering, and they have loyal friends.

Kyla knows her newly divorced and lifelong friend, Jasmine, is desperately unhappy and no amount of prayer or encouragement seems to help. Yet what Kyla doesn't know is that Jasmine has a plan to move her life forward with the type of man she feels she should have married in the first place - a man like Jefferson.

Alexis Ward, Kyla's best friend, is single and successful and willing to wait for the right man for all the right reasons. But when "Mr. Right," Dr. Brian Lewis, finally appears, she finds herself facing a new challenge. Does she really have to walk away from what she believes in order to have a man in her life?

As people who love God, Kyla, Jefferson, and Alexis discover, each in their own ways, what happens when they truly allow God to be first in their relationship.

Victoria Christopher Murray is a graduate of Hampton Institute and has an MBA from New York University. She lives with her husband and daughter in Los Angeles.

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Temptation by Victoria Christopher Murray

February
2001

Ebony Pages
Book of the year

4.5 stars