First Line Friday | Where Promises Remain

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Welcome to First Line Friday!
Today I’m featuring

Where Promises Remain by Heidi Chiavaroli.

About the Book

Hannah Martin thought she was about to have an empty nest . . . until the illegitimate daughter of her late husband shows up on her doorstep.

Five years after her husband’s death, Hannah Martin runs a successful inn and serves the needy in her community. Despite a house full of guests, she’s worried about the loneliness that will come with an empty nest. Now that no one needs her for anything other than serving her famous five-course breakfasts and retrieving fresh towels, she throws herself into winning Camden’s Hospitality Grant. With the help of the grant, the bed and breakfast will bring in even more customers and Hannah won’t have time to think about what she’s missing.

But when a handsome lumberjack named Kevin moves in next door, Hannah’s attraction to the widowed bachelor knocks her off-kilter. Just as she begins to think about dating again, a young woman arrives at the bed and breakfast claiming to be the illegitimate daughter of Hannah’s late husband.

When the Orchard House’s chances at the Hospitality grant is threatened, Hannah’s children oppose her “new” daughter moving in, and Kevin’s problems start to bleed over into her own, she must decide what matters most—before she loses the grant, the bed and breakfast’s reputation, and perhaps, her second chance at love.

This is Book 7 in The Orchard House Bed and Breakfast Series, a contemporary twist on the well-loved classic, Little Women . Readers will fall in love with the Martin family—Maggie, Josie, Lizzie, Bronson, Amie, and their mother Hannah—each trying to find their own way in the world and each discovering that love, home, and hope are closer than they appear.

From Goodreads

The First Line is …

There was nothing like a new project to distract from self-pitying thoughts, and the email I received this morning might be just the ticket to accomplish the task.

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11 thoughts on “First Line Friday | Where Promises Remain

  1. Happy Friday!
    I’m currently reading Fraser by Susan May Warren. It’s pretty good!
    “All her training, all her years of keeping her focus…And she’d simply abandoned it all in one blinding moment.”
    I hope you have a great weekend! 😀❤️📚

  2. July 15, 1881
    Jacci Reed’s mother shook her awake, then put her fingers lightly over Jacci’s lips.
    From In the Shadow of the River by Ann Gabhart.

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