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First Line Friday

First Line Friday | Week 175 | PS Goodbye by Tari Faris

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from P.S. Goodbye by Tari Faris, the prequel novella to the Restoring Heritage series. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

Failing to plan was the same as planning to fail, and Caroline Williams refused to be a failure—even a failure at having the perfect engagement.

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About P.S. Goodbye

What if a woman who’s all about the goals and plans falls in love with man who no longer believes his life has a purpose? A novice life coach needs to cement her reputation with one great success story. When a wounded former Special Forces operator walks back into her life looking for a job, she decides to work with him—a win-win for them both.

​If Caroline Williams had her way, she’d help everyone in town find their purpose in life—unfortunately, no one seems to want her help. But she refuses to give up, and her new status as a certified life coach should provide her with some badly needed credibility. All she needs is her first client. When Grant Quinn walks in looking for a job, Caroline knows he needs more than that—he needs a new plan for his life. But when Grant refuses to be honest about his dreams and his struggles, Caroline’s business might come crashing down before it starts.

Wounded former Special Forces operator Grant Quinn understood the cost when he enlisted and served his country with pride. The scars on his face are reminders of what he lost, but he is moving on—now if he could just convince his family that he’s fine. When Caroline steps back into his life and offers to help find him a job in exchange for being her Guinea pig in her new life coaching business, he agrees. After all, what better way to show his family he’s okay than with a new, stable job? But when the anxiety he’s been running from ruins his one interview, his plans come crashing down. Can he trust Caroline enough to be honest about everything?

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First Line Friday | Week 174 | Pay the Price by Carol J Post

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from Pay the Price by Carol J Post, which promises to be another great romantic suspense novel. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

The house stood silhouetted against a cloudless sky, the landscape frosty and still under the onslaught of one of Central Florida's infrequent cold fronts.

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About Pay the Price

Sometimes homecomings can be deadly…

Jessica Parker left Harmony Grove with bad memories and a vow to never return – until she is called back eight years later to deal with her sister’s suicide. When all the evidence points instead to murder, she is determined to find the killer and bring him to justice. Her handsome new neighbor is eager to help, but she is sure he’s hiding something.

Undercover FBI agent Shane Dalton is in Harmony Grove investigating the crash of a plane full of cocaine and gets more than he bargained for when he runs into Jessica. He’s not sure whether she’s involved or is just going to get in his way. Soon it becomes obvious that someone wants Jessica gone from Harmony Grove. As the threats intensify, Shane finds himself in a race against time to solve both cases. The closer they get to the truth, the closer the killer gets to making them his next victims.

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First Line Friday | Week 173 | The Girl in the Glass by Susan Meissner

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from The Girl in the Glass, another book from my too-large to-read. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

When I close my eyes and think of home, I always envision Florence—a place I've never been.

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About Girl in the Glass

Renaissance is a word with hope infused in every letter.

Since she was a child, Meg has dreamed of taking a promised trip to Florence, Italy, and being able to finally step into the place captured in a picture at her grandmother’s house. But after her grandmother passes away and it falls to her less-than-reliable father to take her instead, Meg’s long-anticipated travel plans seem permanently on hold.

When her dad finally tells Meg to book the trip, she prays that the experience will heal the fissures left on her life by her parents’ divorce. But when Meg arrives in Florence, her father is nowhere to be found, leaving aspiring memoir-writer Sophia Borelli to introduce Meg to the rich beauty of the ancient city. Sofia claims to be one of the last surviving members of the Medici family and that a long-ago Medici princess, Nora Orsini, communicates with her from within the great masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance.

When Sophia, Meg, and Nora’s stories intersect, their lives will be indelibly changed as they each answer the question: What if renaissance isn’t just a word? What if that’s what happens when you dare to believe that what is isn’t what has to be?

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First Line Friday | Week 172 | When Twilight Breaks by Sarah Sundin

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from When Twilight Breaks, a new standalone novel from World War II expert Sarah Sundin. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

Evelyn Brand had done a crack bit of journalism, and she hadn't even had to dress like a man to do so.

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About When Twilight Breaks

Munich, 1938. Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent as determined to prove her worth in a male-dominated profession as she is to expose the growing tyranny in Nazi Germany. To do so, she must walk a thin line. If she offends the government, she could be expelled from the country–or worse. If she fails to truthfully report on major stories, she’ll never be able to give a voice to the oppressed–and wake up the folks back home.

In another part of the city, American graduate student Peter Lang is working on his PhD in German. Disillusioned with the chaos in the world due to the Great Depression, he is impressed with the prosperity and order of German society. But when the brutality of the regime hits close, he discovers a far better way to use his contacts within the Nazi party–to feed information to the shrewd reporter he can’t get off his mind.

This electric standalone novel from fan-favorite Sarah Sundin puts you right at the intersection of pulse-pounding suspense and heart-stopping romance.

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First Line Friday | Week 171 | This Wandering Heart by Janine Rosche

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from This Wandering Heart by Janine Rosche. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

Ever since she was seventeen, Keira Knudsen's internal compass needle had failed to point north.

Doesn’t that make you want to read more?

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About This Wandering Heart

No one in the quaint town of West Yellowstone, Montana knows that unassuming geography teacher Keira Knudsen moonlights as sensational travel blogger Kat Wanderfull. No one, that is, except for her first love, Robbie Matthews, who has just discovered the woman he is falling for online is the same one that broke his heart five years ago.

But Robbie has another problem: the mother of his daughter, Anabelle, has resurfaced after a three-year absence determined to rip Anabelle away from him. Robbie needs a steady paycheck for a chance at custody, and now, on the eve of a grand adventure that could give Keira a chance to flee her old, troubled life once and for all, she is in need of assistance.

With so much broken trust between them, Keira and Robbie must keep an arms-length away to make this partnership work. But the more time they spend together, exploring majestic places and sharing new experiences, the closer they get–until their secrets and dreams threaten to cost them everything.

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First Line Friday | Week 170 | Under the Tulip Tree by Michelle Shocklee

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from Under the Tulip Tree by Michelle Shocklee, a 2020 release I recently found on sale. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

I was convinced a more perfect day could not be found.

 

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About Under the Tulip Tree

Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland’s dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years into the Great Depression, Rena’s banker father has retreated into the bottle, her sister is married to a lazy charlatan and gambler, and Rena is an unemployed newspaper reporter. Eager for any writing job, Rena accepts a position interviewing former slaves for the Federal Writers’ Project. There, she meets Frankie Washington, a 101-year-old woman whose honest yet tragic past captivates Rena.

As Frankie recounts her life as a slave, Rena is horrified to learn of all the older woman has endured—especially because Rena’s ancestors owned slaves. While Frankie’s story challenges Rena’s preconceptions about slavery, it also connects the two women whose lives are otherwise separated by age, race, and circumstances. But will this bond of respect, admiration, and friendship be broken by a revelation neither woman sees coming?

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First Line Friday | Week 169 | The Dwelling Place by Elizabeth Musser

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from The Dwelling Place by Elizabeth Musser, the second book in her Swan House series. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

I have never been into journalling. And I am not telling this story simply because it was on my "to do" list from rehab.

 

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About The Dwelling Place

In a family of successes, she’s the embarrassment, still defiantly refusing to color inside the lines.

Perhaps being a server at a trendy Atlanta restaurant isn’t a dream career, but it’s her work. She has friends, she has neighbors, she has causes. But Ellie has never fit in. When her artist mother’s fight with cancer takes a bad turn, Ellie is forced to reenter her family’s perfect world to help care for her.

As the two women struggle to reconnect, Ellie begins to understand that her family might not be as unblemished as it seems. As her mother’s condition worsens, Ellie embarks on a journey toward forgiveness, hope, and healing. Is there a place of peace for her? And like her mother, must she travel halfway around the world to find it?

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First Line Friday | Week 168 | Dreams of Savannah by Roseanna M White

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from Dreams of Savannah by Roseanna M White. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

Cordelia Owens had dreamed of this day a hundred times. This moment. This story just waiting to happen.

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About Dreams of Savannah

Cordelia Owens can weave a hopeful dream around anything and is well used to winning the hearts of everyone in Savannah with her whimsy. Even when she receives word that her sweetheart has been lost during a raid on a Yankee vessel, she clings to hope and comes up with many a romantic tale of his eventual homecoming to reassure his mother and sister.

But Phineas Dunn finds nothing redemptive in the first horrors of war. Struggling for months to make it home alive, he returns to Savannah injured and cynical, and all too sure that he is not the hero Cordelia seems determined to make him. Matters of black and white don’t seem so simple anymore to Phin, and despite her best efforts, Delia’s smiles can’t erase all the complications in his life. And when Fort Pulaski falls and the future wavers, they both must decide where the dreams of a new America will take them, and if they will go together.

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First Line Friday | Week 167 | Lessons Learned in Love by Milla Holt

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from Hidden in Her Heart by Milla Holt—yes, I’m on a Milla Holt binge 🙂

Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

Vanya Klassen was used to being overshadowed, but her flamboyant dinner guest would have made even a peacock look drab.

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About Lessons Learned in Love

The boss’s daughter is off-limits. Especially when she steals the job that should have been his.

Vanya has never measured up to her parents’ demanding standards. After a crushing humiliation at her last job, she jumps at the chance to prove herself when her father entrusts her with a leadership role in his company.

Tendo has had nothing handed to him on a silver platter. The son of a refugee, he’s had to claw his way up every rung of the career ladder. Then the CEO’s daughter swoops in to take the job that should have been his. Tendo wants to resent the pampered princess, making his growing attraction unexpected—and entirely unwelcome.

Vanya feels grossly unqualified to manage the brilliant and ambitious Tendo, especially when she realizes that she’s beginning to admire him for a lot more than his professional qualities. And although he knows he’s falling hard and fast, Tendo is proud of being a self-made man. A relationship with the boss’s daughter is exactly the sort of special treatment he despises.

But as Vanya’s and Tendo’s worlds collide, they discover the power of honesty, grace, and trust—and the possibilities of a future built together.

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First Line Friday | Week 166 | Organized Backup by Meredith Resce

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from Organized Backup, the first novel in the new Luella Linley Christian romance series from Australian author Meredith Resce. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

Mum, are you sure this is how you want to start your book?

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About Organized Backup

Regency romance author, Luella Linley, arranges her characters’ lives, making sure that they weather all storms and live happily-ever-after. Her characters are putty in her hands, but her 21st Century adult children are not so easily organized. When her daughter, Megan, asks for support with an inappropriate situation at work, Luella decides Megan should get a boyfriend to intimidate her boss. The cop who just pulled Luella over for speeding is a likely candidate.

Cam Fletcher is expecting to be interviewed by a famous author. Instead of sharing insights into his job working in the police force, he is sharing a meal with the famous author and her daughter, Megan. When left alone with Megan, Cam wonders when the interview will begin. The parents’ extended absence gives him a clue, which Megan confirms. Luella Linley is playing matchmaker, but is he willing to play the game?

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