Healer of Carthage (44 page)

Authors: Lynne Gentry

The vibration of her phone jerked Lisbeth alert. One arm around Maggie, she struggled to fish the cell from her pocket.

A text from Nelda glowed on the screen.

Five new cases. Help.

© JACOB KNETTEL

LYNNE GENTRY
was a finalist in WestBow Press’s 2010 fiction contest. She is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), and three of her novels have been selected as finalists for the ACFW Genesis Contest. Lynne is a pastor’s wife and the mother of two grown children.

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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page ix
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Healer of Carthage
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gentry, Lynne.

Healer of Carthage : a novel / Lynne Gentry.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-4767-4633-3

1. Residents (Medicine)—Fiction. 2. Texas—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3607.E57H43 2014

813’.6—dc23 2013021353

ISBN 978-1-4767-4633-3