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First Line Friday: Beauty Among Ruins by J’Nell Ciesielski

January 15, 2021 by Suzie Waltner 5 Comments

First Line Friday Autumn

 

 

 

 

About the Book

In Ciesielski’s latest sweeping romance, an American heiress finds herself in Scotland amid the fallout of the Great War, and a wounded Scottish laird comes face-to-face with his past and a woman he never could have expected.

American socialite Lily Durham is known for enjoying one moment to the next, with little regard for the consequences of her actions. But just as she is banished overseas to England as a “cure” for her frivolous ways, the Great War breaks out and wreaks havoc. She joins her cousin in nursing the wounded at a convalescent home deep in the wilds of Scotland at a crumbling castle where its laird is less than welcoming.

Alec MacGregor has given his entire life to preserving his home of Kinclavoch Castle, but mounting debts force him to sell off his family history bit by bit. Labeled a coward for not joining his countrymen in the trenches due to an old injury, he opens his home to the Tommies to make recompense while he keeps to the shadows. But his preference for the shadows is shattered when a new American nurse comes streaming into the castle on a burst of light.

Lily and Alec are thrown together when a series of mysterious events threatens to ruin the future of Kinclavoch. Can they put aside their differences to find the culprit before it’s too late, or will their greatest distraction be falling in love?

 

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  1. Danielle says

    January 15, 2021 at 8:10 AM

    That’s such a gorgeous cover! I shared the first line from A Cowboy for Keeps by Jody Hedlund on my blog today.

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  2. Nicole Santana says

    January 15, 2021 at 5:41 PM

    Happy Friday!
    Today on my blog, I’m sharing the first line from Active Defense by Lynette Eason: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2021/01/15/first-line-friday-170/. I’m currently in the middle of a chapter so I’ll share a line randomly from there here. “Travis wanted to pounce but waited.”
    Hope you have an excellent weekend! ❤

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  3. Kelly-Ann Deffenbaugh says

    January 15, 2021 at 6:01 PM

    Happy Friday!!

    Today on my blog I am sharing the first line from Caryl McAdoo’s Quincy & Priscilla: A the Lowell House.
    “The hall clock struck the first twelve bongs; Priscilla touched her flute to her mother’s as the second chime sounded.”
    https://www.musingsofasassybookishmama.com/2021/01/first-line-friday-quincy-priscilla-at.html

    Happy Weekend, Happy Reading!

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  4. Becky Smith says

    January 15, 2021 at 9:06 PM

    Happy Friday! My first Line is from “Crazy for You” by Susan May Warren and Michelle Sass Aleckson:

    “Anything had to be better than returning to Deep Haven. Enemy fire. Jumping into hostile territory.”

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  5. Paula Shreckhise says

    January 17, 2021 at 10:49 AM

    That is one I want to read!

    My first line comes from Dreams of Savannah by Roseanna White:
    Savannah, Georgia May 1861
    Cordeliia Owens had dreamed of this day a hundred times. This moment. This story just waiting to happen

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