Happy Friday, friends! Can you believe that Christmas is only nine days away? Whether you’re enjoying a white winter season or just wishing for one, I hope the season is filled with love, laughter, and a little extra reading time.
Grab the book nearest you and drop the first line in the comments section then head to our host’s site at the Hoarding Books Blog and check out what everyone else is reading.
This week’s First Line Friday theme is Travel/Winter. The book I’m sharing with you has both of those subplots and, bonus, it takes place during the holiday season.
First Line(s):
Don’t do it.
Kelsey McCleary stared straight ahead as the wipers slapped thickly falling snowflakes from her windshield.
About the Book
Kelsey is on her way to a life do-over. And it’s not the first time. Abandoned by her drug-addict mother as a teen, she landed in a foster-care group home where she experienced faith and community—and met her best friends, Jazz and Theadora. The trio stuck together like sisters and vowed to make their lives mean something.
Now Kelsey’s pushing thirty, and her life has taken a wrong turn. Pregnant and alone after loving the wrong man, she’s on her way to making another life-changing decision when a wicked blizzard strands her outside the sleepy town of Wishing Bridge.
After being rescued from a snowbank by handsome cop, she’s embraced by the welcoming village, but she still feels upside down. Fortunately, her frantic SOS brings her besties rushing to help sort things out. They soon find that Wishing Bridge has as many secrets as Kelsey does—and she’s connected to it in ways she couldn’t have imagined.
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That sounds like a book I would enjoy.
My first line is from Then Came You by Becky Wade.
Sylvie left me today.
Christmas is coming way to fast!! But I’m enjoying ALL the fun Christmas books! 🙂
Today on my blog I’m sharing the first line from Liz Curtis Higg’s “A Wreath of Snow”. A Christmas favorite of mine! Last evening I started reading Lucette Nel’s book “A Match of Sorts”. I’m really enjoying this one also! Here is the first line: “She changed her mind.”
Ha! That sounds like what’s happening all over Michigan today. 🙂 Thick snow is falling outside my window onto an eight-inch blanket of white on the ground. Puts you in the mood for hot chocolate and Christmas. I’m featuring At Your Request by Jen Turano on my blog. Here I will share the first line from The Boy and the Clock by A. Lynn Bassett. This is a children’s book. “Tick-tock, tick-tock. Only three minutes stood between Charlie Higgins and the best summer ever!”
Great first line!
It was days like this, when the sun bounced off Lake Superior with an eye-squinting brilliance, that Bree Nicholls forgot all her qualms about living where the Snow King ruled nine months of the year. – Without a Trace by Colleen Coble
I have this on on my tbr shelf! Here’s the first line of my current read, Too Far Down by Mary Connealy:
Skull Gulch, New Mexico Territory
February 1881
An explosion brought Cole Boden to his feet.
Sounds like an intriguing book. I will have to check this one out.
Today on my blog, I am sharing the first line from My Heart Belongs in Niagara Falls, New York: Adele’s Journey. I am currently on chapter 14, so I will share the first three lines from that chapter here.
“‘Are you busy?’ Adele looked up from the book lying in her lap. Uncle Osbourne stood at the threshold of the library.”
Beautiful cover–the synopsis sounds like a Hallmark Christmas movie, which is always good. 🙂 Happy Friday!
“My lungs burned” from prologue of Water by Emory Gayle – reader beware some foul language.
Sounds intriguing … although it’s hard to think of reading winter books in the middle of a Kiwi summer!
I’m currently reading Engaging The Competition by Melissa Jagears. Here’s the first line:
Harrison Gray had never heard of anyone holding a competition over mounting or dismounting a horse, but then, Charlotte Andrews could turn anything into a contest.