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Six months ago, Anthony Murdock made a wrong choice—a choice that has come back to haunt him today. At the time, his mind had been focused on becoming successful and rich. His relentless pursuit of money led him down the wrong path, away from God. Now someone wants to keep him on that dirty road, and the enemy sets out to destroy every aspect of Anthony’s life. As he struggles to follow God and do the right thing, his life becomes a nightmare, and like Samson from the Bible, Anthony may have to go down with the enemy in order to win.
Terri, Anthony’s wife, thinks her husband has come into some money—millions, to be exact. So she goes on a spending spree. Her goal is to become the envy of everyone around her. She’s smart, beautiful, and successful. Now she’s got the means to dress the part. She insists, to the women at the church, that there’s more to life than religion. But God is moving in her heart, and her plans aren’t working quite the way she’d hoped. Being rich isn’t making her life perfect.
Eric Johnson, an ex-drug junkie, is desperately trying to raise money for Bethany House—a place where people who have lost all hope through drug addiction can get help. But someone is working to discredit Eric and sabotage his efforts, and it all leads back to Anthony Murdock. Soon Eric doesn’t know who’s working for God or who’s working for the devil.
Like Sheep Gone Astray shows readers how one man’s actions can affect everyone around him—and how lack of communication between a husband and wife can cause all kinds of unnecessary problems. It shows how the love of money can drag you down into the gutter and destroy your life. But it also shows how the light of God within you can make you content in whatever situation you find yourself and gives you the strength to pull yourself out of the hole you fell into and get back on the right path.
I became so absorbed in Like Sheep Gone Astray that I found myself reading a chapter or two as soon as I awoke in the morning in addition to my normal before-lights-out bedtime reading. The mystery and message kept drawing me back, and I didn’t know how on earth Anthony was going to extract himself from a choice born on greed. Sometimes I found myself wanting to shake the living daylights out of Anthony or Terri because I could see clearly what was happening to them, but they couldn’t seem to see it themselves. It’s so easy to see the big picture when you’re on the outside looking in, though.
Christian fiction can be every bit as intriguing and page turning as a Kay Hooper or Iris Johansen romantic suspense. I sincerely enjoy these commendable Walk Worthy novels, and I plan on reading plenty of them in the future—especially anything written by Leslie J. Sherrod.
