Welcome to First Line Friday! Each Friday I pick a book and share the first line with you. In return, I hope you’ll share with me a first line from whatever book you have at hand!
This week I am sharing the first line from the book I am currently reading, Just the Way You Are by Pepper Basham.
Here’s the first line:
One step into the massive glass-walled waiting area was all it took.
Here’s the description:
Single mom, Eisley Barrett, prefers to keep romance housed within a centuries-old mystery, but when she travels to England to unearth the secret, an actor with a sordid past offers her heart a very different type of discovery.
Wes Harrison has a past he’s ashamed to confess. Suspicious and cynical, he’s managed to avoid romantic entanglements since a tragedy upended his career and life, that is until American Eisley Barrett comes along. Her authenticity and kindness upend his bitter assumptions and send his heart into unscripted territory.
When his past threatens to ruin a second chance at love, can some Appalachian matchmaking and letters from the grave salvage their unexpected romance?
Humor, love, mystery, cute kids, crazy families, and culture clashes make this Britallachian Romance a unique and delightful romantic comedy sprinkled with adventure.
Now it’s your turn! Grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first (or your favorite) line!
Then head over to Hoarding Books to see who else is participating:
“Fairies will not be rushed.” This first line is from the Prologue in “The Cottingley Secret,” by Hazel Gaynor.
Happy Reading!
What an intriguing beginning! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Ugghhh I want to read a Pepper book so badly!!!
Here is my first line from The Welcome Home Diner by Peggy Lampman
If you’re the last person to leave Detroit, don’t forget to turn off the lights.
Have a great weekend!!
Wow. That sounds like the start of a dystopian not women’s lit! Ha ha. Great attention grabber, though. Thanks for sharing!
I just love this book!!
The first line on my blog this week is from Toni Shiloh’s latest book ‘Returning Home’. I’ll share with you here a book that I just started reading last night.
June 1811
A London lady never sallied forth unchaperoned. Least of all to a place with the reputation of Vauxhall Gardens. — First Comes Marriage by Amanda Barratt
The Regency Brides Collection
Hmm. A social rebel. I have a particular weakness for those! 🙂
I love Pepper’s books! Happy Friday, Kathleen!
Wednesday,September 2, 1987
Mike Dolan was snoring when the telephone rang. Fly Away by Lynn Austin
Thanks for sharing! 🙂
This looks like a great read. Great first line!
I’m featuring Lu. by Beth Troy on my blog today, but here I shall share the book I’m currently reading.
“They rode in silence, the murmur of Alex’s expensive late-model white SUV lulling Astrid into drowsiness.”
-Colors of Christmas by Olivia Newport
Happy Weekend!
Oh, I loved Olivia’s Avenue of Dreams series. I haven’t tried her contemporary fiction. I’ll have to give that one a try. Thanks for sharing!
The Christmas novella was my first book I’ve read from Olivia. I’ll have to add Avenue of Dreams to my TBR.
Love, love, LOVE JTWYA!! Sorry that I didn’t get this posted on Friday. I want to share the first line from the first chapter instead of from the prologue: (This is a REALLY fun book to read!)
A New Shade of Summer by Nicole Deese:
“I jiggled the locked doorknob again and wished, not for the first time, that it was legal to use tranquilizer darts on adolescent boys.”
I went to a book reading this weekend, and the band that played before the event played this song. 😀 Happy Monday !