Hey Everyone! It’s First Line Friday. So grab a book near you and share the first line in the comments below!
Today I’m sharing the first line from The Road to Paradise by Karen Barnett. This book is very near the top of my TBR list and I cannot wait to finally get to read it!
Here are the first lines:
June 1, 1927
Mount Rainier National Park
Ashford, WashingtonThe promised view of the mountain peak waited, cloaked in mist like a tissue-wrapped gift not ready to be unveiled.
An ideal sanctuary and a dream come true–that’s what Margaret Lane feels as she takes in God’s gorgeous handiwork in Mount Rainier National Park. It’s 1927 and the National Park Service is in its youth when Margie, an avid naturalist, lands a coveted position alongside the park rangers living and working in the unrivaled splendor of Mount Rainier’s long shadow.
But Chief Ranger Ford Brayden is still haunted by his father’s death on the mountain, and the ranger takes his work managing the park and its crowd of visitors seriously. The job of watching over an idealistic senator’s daughter with few practical survival skills seems a waste of resources.
When Margie’s former fiancé sets his mind on developing the Paradise Inn and its surroundings into a tourist playground, the plans might put more than the park’s pristine beauty in danger. What will Margie and Ford sacrifice to preserve the splendor and simplicity of the wilderness they both love?
Karen Barnett’s vintage national parks novels bring to vivid life President Theodore Roosevelt’s vision for protected lands, when he wrote in Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter: “There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children’s children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred.”
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Now it’s your turn to grab the book nearest you and leave a comment with the first (or your favorite) line!
Then head over to Hoarding Books to see who else is participating:
I have her books in my TBR, but so many are ahead of it! I hope I can read them soon!!
My First Line is, “The wail of a ship’s whistle jerked Anna Wilson from sleep despite the cotton wadding she’d shoved in her ears before bed.”
This is from The Great Lakes Lighthouse Brides Collection by multiple authors.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Blessings~ 💖
I’ve been meaning to read that one. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!!
Happy Friday! My first line is from “Remember Me” by Marion Ueckermann:
“Seated cross-legged on the floor of her bedroom with her two best friends, Clarise Aylward leaned forward and lit the candles on the birthday cake her mom had made for them.
I wonder what kind of cake it is and how old Clarise is. Thanks for sharing. Happy Weekend!
Great idea. The book closest is a story i am working to complete called “The Traveler”. Phillip sits in a classroom at the end of the school year prior to graduation planning to travel and work as he walks across America. He has a German Shepherd dog named Pilgrim who travels with him.
Thanks for sharing. 🙂
I hope you enjoy it! I’m featuring Beauty in Battle by Robin Patchen today. Here is the first line from Chapter Nine:
“This is it?” Jack peered at the rusty sign hung from the front of a rundown brick building.
Happy Friday!
I’m sure I will. I think it’s next on my TBR, but I need to double check. There may be one ahead of it.
Hmmm. Sounds like Jack is less than impressed. LOL Thanks for sharing.
Great book! I shared from Glory Road by Lauren Denton on my blog. Here is the first line of another book in my TBR stack, The Governess of Penwythe Hall. “A biting gust of Cornish wind screamed downward from the churning sky, billowing Cordelia Greythorne’s jet-black traveling cape.
Have a great weekend!
Very descriptive. Thanks for sharing.
Mountains and clouds seem to go together 🙂
I’m sharing the first line from A Hero for Miss Hatherleigh by Australian author Carolyn Miller on my blog today. I’m currently up to Chapter Seven, and here’s the first line:
The next time at services Caroline did her best to recall why she attended, to fix her thoughts on the service and not on the gentleman seated two rows behind her on her left.
Happy reading!
I think a lot of people get distracted by others seated around them during service. Maybe we should distribute blind folds with the bulletins. 😉
Hope you get to read it soon! 🙂