First Line Friday (week 288): When the Day Comes

Posted May 5, 2022 by meezcarrie in Christian, First Line Fridays, Gabrielle Meyer, historical, romance / 11 Comments

Happy Friday & welcome to the First Line Friday link-up! 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 When the Day Comes by Gabrielle Meyer, one of my most anticipated books of 2022!

and the first lines are…

For as long as I could remember, my mama had told me that my life was a gift. But at the age of nineteen, I had yet to see how this life I was living – or rather, the lives I was living – could be anything other than a burden.

 

How will she choose, knowing all she must sacrifice?

Libby has been given a powerful gift: to live one life in 1774 Colonial Williamsburg and the other in 1914 Gilded Age New York City. When she falls asleep in one life, she wakes up in the other. While she’s the same person at her core in both times, she’s leading two vastly different lives.

In Colonial Williamsburg, Libby is a public printer for the House of Burgesses and the Royal Governor, trying to provide for her family and support the Patriot cause. The man she loves, Henry Montgomery, has his own secrets. As the revolution draws near, both their lives–and any hope of love–are put in jeopardy.

Libby’s life in 1914 New York is filled with wealth, drawing room conversations, and bachelors. But the only work she cares about–women’s suffrage–is discouraged, and her mother is intent on marrying her off to an English marquess. The growing talk of war in Europe only complicates matters.

But Libby knows she’s not destined to live two lives forever. On her twenty-first birthday, she must choose one path and forfeit the other–but how can she choose when she has so much to lose in each life?

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11 responses to “First Line Friday (week 288): When the Day Comes”

  1. Debra Pruss

    The Escape-Lisa Harris. “There is a razor-thin edge between justice and revenge, where the two easily blur if left unchecked.

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  2. Gloria A

    This sounds like a great book! I am reading A Dream of Death (A Kate Hamilton Mystery) by Connie Berry. The first line is:
    I never wanted to return to Glenroth.

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      • Gloria A

        Actually, I have had the first three on my Kindle but haven’t read them before I got approved for the fourth, so I am reading the first to get a feel before reading the fourth. I usually don’t read out of order, but I got overwhelmed with commitments. I am enjoying it!

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  4. Kay Garrett

    Uh-oh.
    Charlotte Tremaine froze midway through buttoning the forty-two buttons scattered up the back of her client’s one-of-a-kind wedding gown.
    HER MOUNTAIN REFUGE by Laurel Blount

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  5. Sarah

    “He was, quite possibly, the ugliest man she had ever seen.” Big Apple Atonement by Carolyn Miller.

    Great story!

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  6. Teri DiVincenzo

    I have When The Day Comes on my TBR… It looks so intriguing! Here’s mine:
    “Campfires were meant to be places of shadows.“
    ~The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

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  8. Paula Shreckhise

    I picked When the Day Comes too!
    For as long as I could remember, my mama had told me that my life was a gift. But at the age of nineteen, I had yet to see how this life I was living – or rather, the lives I was living – could be anything other than a burden.
    Loved that book!

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