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 Forgiven by Carol Ashby, the first novel in her Light in the Empire series set in the Roman Empire.
Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:
What’s the book nearest you, and what’s the first line?
About Forgiven
Dangerous times, difficult friendships, lives transformed by forgiveness and love
With a ruthless father who murdered for the family inheritance, Marcus Drusus plans to do the same. In AD 122, Marcus follows his brother Lucius to Judaea and plots to frame a zealot for his older brother’s death. But the plan goes awry, and Lucius is rescued by a Messianic Jewish woman. Her oldest brother is a zealot and a Roman soldier killed her twin, but Rachel still persuades her father Joseph to put his love for Jesus above his anger with Rome and hide Lucius until he heals.
Rachel cares for the enemy, and more than broken bones heal as duty turns to love. Lucius embraces Joseph’s faith in Jesus, but sharing a faith doesn’t heal all wounds. Even before revealed secrets slice open old scars, Joseph wants no Roman son-in-law. With Rachel’s zealot brother suspecting he’s a Roman officer and his own brother planning to kill him when he returns, can Lucius survive long enough to change Joseph’s mind?
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