Christmas is only a few days away, so let me take this time to say…
Check it out the first line of the book I’m sharing this week below and tell me what the first line of the book nearest you is. Then head over to our hosts at Hoarding Books Blog and see what everyone else is sharing this week.
First Line:
A hand clamped over her mouth, starling Adriana Garcia and muffling her scream.
Now, that’s not exactly the way I want to start my Christmas morning!
About the Book
After earning the wrath of her brother, a notorious drug kingpin, Adriana Garcia has been in deep hiding on a remote Texas llama ranch. But when Texas Ranger Brent McCord manages to find her—leading her brother’s men right to her—Adriana discovers she’s a suspect in the murder of a border patrol agent. The handsome, principled ranger, whose life she once saved during a dangerous sting operation, intends to bring her in for questioning…and protection. To prove her innocence, Adriana has to trust Brent with the truth, her heart and her life. Because her brother and his henchman have the ranch surrounded, and Brent’s all that’s keeping this Christmas from turning deadly.
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That sounds like quite an exciting book!
My first line comes from Deborah Raney’s Circle of Blessings:
Dakota Territory, 1864
It was almost closing time, and in all of his seventeen years, James Collingwood could not remember being so bone-weary as he felt tonight.
Merry Christmas!
What an opening!
On my blog, I’m featuring the first line from a fun Christmas read called ‘Tinsel in a Tangle’ by Laurie Germaine, but here, I’m going to share the first line from another Christmas book I recently finished, this one by Chautona Havig, called ‘Carol and the Belles’:
“I’ll never get off this plane.”
Merry Christmas!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
“Good morning, Kansas!” The radio scratched out static over deejay Kris Kristiansen’s lilting baritone. – Silver Bells by Deborah Raney
That is a great first line!
My first line is from Circle of Blessings by Deborah Raney
Dakota Territory, 1864
It was almost closing time, and in all of his seventeen years, James Collingwood could not remember being so bone-weary as he felt tonight.
Merry Christmas!
Wow! Not a Chrismissy start, but suspenseful. 🙂 The book I’m featuring on my blog today is A Match of Sorts by Lucette Nel. Merry Christmas!
Not the way I would want to start off Christmas either, but a highly engaging first line!!!
Merry Christmas!
Today on my blog I am featuring Desert Duet by Debra Marvin. I’m just beginning chapter 3, so I will leave the first line from that chapter.
“The new gray fedora, with its crisp, black grosgrain band, would be a stylish, but dismal failure at preventing sunburn.”
I’m really enjoying this story! Happy Friday.
Haha! No, I wouldn’t want to start my Christmas that way, either! 🙂
Over on my blog, I’m featuring Monster by Frank Peretti, but over here, I’ll share the first line of another on my TBR pile, The Cottage by Michael Phillips: “The letter two weeks before had been brief. Less than half a page. Yet in an instant it had turned her life upside down.”
Merry Christmas ~ May God give you many reminders of His love and faithfulness in Jesus Christ this season! <3
A good beginning.
Oh my goodness!! What an opening line–I wonder what happens next?! Merry Christmas!
Yes, I was hoping for a little more relaxation on Christmas morning as well! But it’s certainly a first line that’s going to keep you reading!
I’m sharing from All is Bright by Andrea Grigg over on my blog, a wonderful novella set in Australia … which means a summer Christmas (FYI, that’s normal for me. Not so normal for most of you, or for my Icelandic pastor and his family.)
I’m currently reading A Sweethaven Christmas by Courtney Walsh, an new favourite author. Here’s the first line:
“Why is that woman staring over here?” Lila shifted in the tall-backed linen-covered chair and nodded towards a blonde woman at the bar.
I suspect this is going to be more than a Christmas story …
Blessings as you celebrate the birth of our Saviour this week!
Sounds interesting, yikes.
Merry Christmas!