Happy Friday! And welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books!!! Since it’s Friday, it’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today, I’m featuring the first line of The Thief of Blackfriars Lane by Michelle Griep, currently on tour with JustRead Publicity Tours, LLC (the company I own with my book sisters).
and the first line is…
April 1885
London“For want of a properly working pocket watch, Jackson Forge failed to save the world today – or at least the City of London.”
There’s Often a Fine Line Between a Criminal and a Saint
Constable Jackson Forge intends to make the world safer, or at least the streets of Victorian London. But that’s Kit Turner’s domain, a swindler who runs a crew that acquires money the old-fashioned way—conning the rich to give to the poor. When a local cab driver goes missing, Jackson is tasked with finding the man, and the only way to do that is by enlisting Kit’s help. If Jackson doesn’t find the cabby, he’ll be fired. If Kit doesn’t help Jackson, he’ll arrest her for thievery. Yet neither of them realize those are the least of their problems.
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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! 🙂❤📚
This was another good one from Michelle!
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.”
This comes from Alaska Mountain Rescue by Lisa Harris. The whispers started the moment she stepped into town. “It’s her. The kidnapped girl. The one from five years ago.” “The one who almost got her real sister killed?”
Correction: It’s by Elizabeth Heiter.
Michelle always comes through with a great Regency! Loved it.
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
Diane Martin strode down the hallway of the Rosewood Senior Living Apartments, smiling and waving to the many resident’s she passed. This first line comes from The Ones We Leave Behind by Deanna Lynn Sletten