It’s Friday! After returning from CFRR and giving myself one extra day off to recover, my work week was blessedly short. It was such a joy to meet so many reader and author friends (some again, some for the first time). Seeing all of the posts on FB and Instagram, I realize I missed meeting a few of you too!
This week I’m sharing the first line from the final book in Jennifer Delamere’s London Beginnings series. It’s the youngest sister’s turn to find her place and discover love.
About the Book
Cara Bernay has never fit in. At loose ends in 1881 London after a near tragedy costs her a job, she befriends a rising young artist. With his help, she begins planning a new life and developing her own artistic talent. But soon Cara finds herself at odds with the artist’s brother—a handsome but serious-minded earl who wants to force his brother back to a “respectable” life.
Henry Burke, the Earl of Morestowe, feels the weight of growing financial burdens. His profligate and emotionally unstable brother is making matters worse, and Henry needs him back home. Despite misgivings about Cara’s mysterious background, Henry sees she’s a positive influence on his brother and on Henry’s unruly young ward, and he strikes a deal with her to return with them to their estate.
But the family has their own secrets, and when Cara, drawn ever closer to Henry, stumbles onto the truth, she must choose between following her heart and pursuing a bold plan that could bring disaster.
Now it’s your turn! Grab the book nearest you and drop the first line in the comments. Then head over to Hoarding Books and discover what others are sharing this week!
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Hi! Happy Friday.
I shared the first couple of lines from my recent read, You’d Be Mine by Erin Hahn. I thoroughly enjoyed the book & definitely recommend it to you. Here, though, I will be sharing the opening lines of my current read, Mother Country by Irina Reyn.
First-World Problems
Brooklyn, April 2014
In this Brooklyn neighborhood, Nadia was sure she was the only nanny from Ukraine. She preferred to think of herself as an observer, a temporary traveler, someone waiting for a new life to begin, rather than who she really was: a worker executing an invisible task within the neighborhood’s complex ecosystem.
I’m only 10% into Mother Country but already it’s proving to be an interesting read. It’s about a mother whose daughter is trapped in war-torn Donbass in Ukraine. I think this one will turn out to be an important read for me.
Hope you enjoyed that. Happy weekend!
Oh, I have this book on my shelf and I’m looking forward to reading it! 🙂
Over on my blog, I’m sharing the first line of Amanda Dykes’s novella “Up from the Sea”. Here I’ll share with you the first line from chapter 25 of the book I’m currently reading, The Governess of Penwythe Hall by Sarah E. Ladd. “They’d found her.”
Both of those are in my tbr this month!
The Artful Match is a delight! I loved the characters and the story.
Love the attitude in your first line. I need to be more like that.
Happy Friday!
Today on my blog I am sharing the first few lines from The Memory House by Rachel Hauck. It is SO awesome. You can see my post by going to: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/04/11/first-line-friday-82-2/. Currently, I am on chapter 22, so I will share a line from there.
“The knock came late as the house rattled with the crashes and flashes of a spring thunderstorm.”
Hope you have a great weekend. Happy reading! ❤️
I need to be more like that too!
Happy Friday! I was so glad to meet you last weekend! I had so much fun and I miss you already!
The book I shared today on my blog is Caught by Surprise by Jen Turano but I’m currently reading The Governess of Penwythe Hall by Sara E Ladd so I’ll share the first line from my current chapter (17) here: “Delia chewed her lip as she traversed the path to Fairhold Cottage, mentally practicing what she wanted to say.” Hope you have a great day and a wonderful weekend!
It was fabulous to meet and hang out with you too!! The Governess of Penwythe Hall is on my tbr this next week too! Another book I’m thoroughly looking forward to. If we all could have stayed in Rockville another week with our books, I would have been a very happy reader
Happy Friday!
The London Beginnings series is on my TBR list. I’m planning on reading it next month . . . at least I hope so. 🙂
Today on my blog, I am sharing the opening line from Susan Anne Mason’s A Worthy Heart. I’m also reading The Daughter of Highland Hall by Carrie Turansky. The first line is:
“If she lived to be one hundred and five, Katherine Evangeline Ramsey would never understand why every debutante must begin the London social season by curtsying to the king and queen.”
Hope you have a great weekend.
Oh, can I relate to the planning on it plans :).
Weddings, Willows, and Revised Expectations by V. Joy Palmer is on top of my “read this next” stack. I’m sharing from Chapter 1 on my blog, so here is the first line from the prologue:
“A great philosopher looks at his various struggles as fodder for his innovative thinking, but, since I am not a great philosopher, I look at my struggles as something akin to stepping on a bee the size of a Komodo dragon.”
Happy Friday and have a good weekend!
I love her optimism!
I’m sharing the first line from Beyond the Stars, Past the Moons by Jebraun Clifford on my blog today. It’s from the Encircled anthology, which I’m looking forward to reading.
Here’s another first line from the anthology. This one is from Edged in Silver by Laurie Lucking:
“If only I didn’t have to go home.”
Happy reading. Have a great weekend 🙂
I have this one waiting for me! Hopefully I’ll get to it soon.
I’m sharing about a FREE novella by Tari Faris on my blog today, but I’m also in the middle of listening to Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, narrated by Juliet Stevenson. I’m absolutely loving it–both the story and the narration. Here’s the first line from chapter 16:
The day arrived on which the masters were to have an interview with a deputation of the work-people.
Have a great weekend!
This in my book stack! Wonderful series…happy reading Suzie!
I like her positive attitude! Happy reading!
Today I’m sharing the first lines from Glory Road by Lauren K. Denton:
“I’d been on the porch steps shelling purple hull peas for less than an hour and my thumbnails had already turned purple.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/04/first-line-fridays-glory-road-by-lauren.html
I’m late this weekend because I just got back from being out of town. I will share a book that was waiting for me in the mailbox — Living Lies by Natalie Walters. “Just let go.”
Have a great week!
I got that one this weekend too! Sorry I missed meeting you at CFRR!!! Maybe next time 🙂