Welcome to First Line Friday!
Today we’re looking at A Cowboy for Keeps by Jody Hedlund.
The first line is …
Colorado Territory
August 1862
“Stop or we’ll shoot!”
What are you reading?
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Today’s Sunday Psalm is Exodus 35:31, the verse at the beginning of Eyewitness Sketch.
On this episode of A Spot of Story, I’m chatting with Tasha Hackett about her contemporary romance, Planning for Nickie We talk about what happens when a man with a twelve-month marriage plan meets a schedule-wrecking doctor, the reality of living in a hotel, and the struggle of letting go…
Today on the blog, I’m joining the JustRead Tour for A Texas Easter Blessing by Mindy Obenhaus. As a single father and a chef work to save a town tradition, they discover a new dream for the future.
Today’s Sunday Psalm is from Psalm 107:41. Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
Today on the blog, I’m joining the JustRead Tour for A Rancher for Easter by Susanne Dietze, an uplifting inspirational romance featuring a marriage of convenience and a heartwarming Easter wish.
Today on the blog, I’m joining the JustRead Tour for Tracing a Kidnapper’s Trail by Katy Lee, a high-stakes K-9 search and rescue inspirational suspense.
Today on the blog, I’m joining the JustRead Tour for Whispers in the Snow by Heidi Eljarbo, a charming Victorian historical mystery set in 1891 Norway.
Today’s Sunday Psalm is from Psalm 82:4. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.
On this episode of A Spot of Story podcast, I’m exploring how the original tale of Aladdin and the Magic Lamp inspired my prequel novella, Undercover Wish.
That was a great start to Jody’s new series!
My first line comes from Dreams of Savannah by Roseanna White:
Savannah, Georgia May 1861
Cordeliia Owens had dreamed of this day a hundred times. This moment. This story just waiting to happen
I love that first line! I hope you enjoy the story!
Happy Friday! I just read A Cowboy for Keeps a few weeks ago! Today, I’m sharing the first line from All That We Carried by Erin Bartels. “Midwesterners do dumb things on the one nice day in March.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2021/01/first-line-fridays-all-that-we-carried.html
Haha, as a native Midwesterner, that first line rings true! ? Happy Reading!
Happy Friday! My first Line is from “Crazy for You” by Susan May Warren and Michelle Sass Aleckson:
“Anything had to be better than returning to Deep Haven. Enemy fire. Jumping into hostile territory.”
I’m excited to read that book! I hope you’re enjoying it!
Happy Friday!!
Today on my blog I am sharing the first line from Caryl McAdoo’s Quincy & Priscilla: A the Lowell House.
“The hall clock struck the first twelve bongs; Priscilla touched her flute to her mother’s as the second chime sounded.”
https://www.musingsofasassybookishmama.com/2021/01/first-line-friday-quincy-priscilla-at.html
Happy Weekend, Happy Reading!
Happy Weekend! Love that first line!
Happy Friday! ?
Today on my blog, I’m sharing the first line from Active Defense by Lynette Eason: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2021/01/15/first-line-friday-170/. I’m currently in the middle of a chapter so I’ll share a line randomly from there here. “Travis wanted to pounce but waited.”
Hope you have an excellent weekend! ???
Sounds like an exciting read! I hope you’re enjoying it!
The Vanishing at Loxby Manor by Abigail Wilson
“I knew there was something terribly wrong the moment I stepped foot back inside Loxby Manor – the pervasive restlessness of the servants, the strained silence of the front room”
I have this book on my tbr list. I hope you enjoy it!