The Weekend Reads: Austen as Fiction

Every other Friday, Christian Fiction Blog will feature two Christian novels perfect for a weekend read. This month's picks: Becoming Jane Austen and My Soul to Keep (Dylan Foster Series #3)(Multnomah.).


Becoming Jane Austen(Bethany House). This is the novelized version of the movie, Becoming Jane, which is a fictional account of Jane Austen before she became an author. Both the novel and CD are available just in time for Valentine's Day.

Melanie Well's My Soul to Keep (Dylan Foster Series #3)(Multnomah.) SMU psych professor, Dylan Foster witnesses a kidnapping during a child's birthday party in the park. The police have no leads and she's a little compulsive to give up on finding Nicholas, the kidnapped. So with the help of the six-year-old Christine, the party host and a girl with a special spiritual and psychological gift they set out to recover him. But what she finds is more than her worst nightmare. There's a good chance that her nemesis, Peter Terry (The Soul Hunter .) is behind this. If he is, then she's in for more than a fight for her life, but her soul.

This book is a psychothriller with a little romance sprinkled around. If you're a Allison Breenan or Dean Koontz fan, then you will warm up to this chiller. (Feb, 320 pp, $12.99)