Author: cynthiaruchti

“Insightful” (Publishers Weekly): Psychologist Camille helps clients who are struggling with hoarding — a disorder that afflicted her late mother. But as Camille realizes shocking truths about herself, can God guide her toward healing? “We can each learn something about ourselves through the characters” (Debbie Macomber).

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These no-longer-newlyweds want out of this road trip–and their marriage. Too bad they can’t find the off ramp.   Weeks away from their one-year wedding anniversary, Mallory and Connor Duncan can’t even agree on how to end their marriage. But when a last-minute crisis lands them on a three-thousand-mile road trip together, Mallory wonders if their story may not be over after all.    The trip … after all.    The trip begins to unravel before the key is even in the ignition. When an at-risk, trouble-seeking eleven-year-old is unexpectedly thrown into their travel plans, close quarters get even tighter.…

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Josiah Chamberlain’s life’s work revolves around repairing otherpeople’s marriages. When his own is threatened by his wife’s unexplaineddistance, and then threatened further when she’s unexpectedly plungedinto an unending fog, Josiah finds his expertise, quick wit and cleverquips are no match for a relationship that is clearly broken. Feelingbetrayed, confused, and ill-equipped for a crisis this … crisis this crippling, hereexamines everything he knows about the fragility of hope and thestrength of his faith and love. Love seems to have failed him. Willwhat’s left of his faith fail him, too? Or will it be the one thing thatholds him together and…

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Alexis Blake has one chance to land her own show on the Home Project Network and nothing, not an uncooperative client, a job site without indoor plumbing, or a challenging videographer, is going to stand in her way. Elsie, at seventy-plus, is far from the ideal client, but she knows exactly what she wants her fieldstone house to look like, and no designer can tell her otherwise. Gabe Langley, the … the man with the camera, is caught in the middle and it is his wisdom and warmth that just may be the bridge that will bring these two women…

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Ruchti delivers an emotional tale that embodies all the grace and giving that fans of Christmas stories love. — Publisher’s WeeklyBoth in their eighties, Dodie and Wilson Binder celebrate every Christmas as if it were their last. This year, their only grandson, Micah, asks his girlfriend, Katie, to marry him — in front of the whole Binder family. But things go terribly wrong when she says no. … no. Now Katie is stuck. Too many people, too much snow, and too little room should be a recipe for disaster. But, sometimes too much is just enough. Especially, when it’s Christmas.Will…

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