Category: First Line Fridays


First Line Friday (week 343): False Shadow

First Line Friday (week 343): False Shadow

Posted May 25, 2023 / 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 False Shadow by Candle Sutton. I’ve been wanting to read this author’s books for a while […]


First Line Friday (and a Giveaway!): 26 Below

First Line Friday (and a Giveaway!): 26 Below

Posted May 18, 2023 / 34 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 from 26 Below by Kimberley Woodhouse, on tour this week with JustRead Tours. Plus there’s a giveaway! […]


First Line Friday (week 341): The Thing About Home

First Line Friday (week 341): The Thing About Home

Posted May 11, 2023 / 8 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 The Thing About Home by Rhonda McKnight! Confession: I went to grab the first line and […]


First Line Friday (week 340): Tunnel Creek Ambush

First Line Friday (week 340): Tunnel Creek Ambush

Posted May 4, 2023 / 10 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 Tunnel Creek Ambush by Kerry Johnson. I loved her first book – Snowstorm Sabotage – and […]


First Line Friday (week 339): Window of Peace

First Line Friday (week 339): Window of Peace

Posted April 27, 2023 / 28 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 Window of Peace by Regina Rudd Merrick. I really enjoyed the first book in this series, […]


First Line Friday (week 338): Home Tours, History & Homicide

First Line Friday (week 338): Home Tours, History & Homicide

Posted April 20, 2023 / 13 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 Home Tours, History & Homicide by Sally Bayless. This cozy mystery series is on my TBR […]


First Line Friday (week 337): Quest of the Queen

First Line Friday (week 337): Quest of the Queen

Posted April 13, 2023 / 19 Comments

Happy Good 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 Quest of the Queen by Dawn Shipman – the second book in her Lost Stones […]


First Line Friday (week 336): Vinegar Boy

First Line Friday (week 336): Vinegar Boy

Posted April 6, 2023 / 22 Comments

Happy Good 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. In honor of Good Friday & Easter Sunday, today I’m featuring the first line of an Easter novel that I read and […]


First Line Friday (and a Giveaway!): Fields of Bounty

First Line Friday (and a Giveaway!): Fields of Bounty

Posted March 30, 2023 / 23 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 a first line from Fields of Bounty by Lauraine Snelling, on tour this week with JustRead Tours. Since I shared […]


First Line Friday (week 334): A Cry in the Dark

First Line Friday (week 334): A Cry in the Dark

Posted March 23, 2023 / 13 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 A Cry in the Dark by Jessica R. Patch. I love Jessica’s books – they’re deliciously […]


First Line Friday (week 333): Code Name Edelweiss

First Line Friday (week 333): Code Name Edelweiss

Posted March 16, 2023 / 25 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 Code Name Edelweiss by Stephanie Landsem – a new historical fiction based on a little-known true […]


First Line Friday (week 332): River of Mercy

First Line Friday (week 332): River of Mercy

Posted March 9, 2023 / 14 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 River of Mercy by Paula Scott! Paula’s books are always so powerfully redemptive and full of […]


First Line Friday (week 331): Winning His Trust

First Line Friday (week 331): Winning His Trust

Posted March 2, 2023 / 17 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 Winning His Trust by Toni Shiloh. I always love her books and I’m eager to read […]


First Line Friday (week 330): A Killer Unleashed

First Line Friday (week 330): A Killer Unleashed

Posted February 23, 2023 / 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 A Killer Unleashed by Jackie Layton! I’m behind on this series (argh) but I really enjoyed […]


First Line Friday (week 329): My Phony Valentine

First Line Friday (week 329): My Phony Valentine

Posted February 16, 2023 / 26 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, in honor of Valentine’s Day, I’m featuring the first line of My Phony Valentine by Courtney Walsh – don’t you love that […]


First Line Friday (week 328): In Spotlight and Shadow

First Line Friday (week 328): In Spotlight and Shadow

Posted February 9, 2023 / 17 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 In Spotlight and Shadow by Rachel Scott McDaniel – a dual timeline romance (with connected contemporary […]


First Line Friday (week 327): Rescuing Her Ranch

First Line Friday (week 327): Rescuing Her Ranch

Posted February 2, 2023 / 21 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 Rescuing Her Ranch, the newest contemporary romance from Lisa Jordan and the first book in her […]


First Line Friday (week 326): Rescuing Rose

First Line Friday (week 326): Rescuing Rose

Posted January 26, 2023 / 24 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 Rescuing Rose, the debut novel of Susan Pope Sloan & the first in a new Civil […]


First Line Friday (week 325): Kingdom Lost

First Line Friday (week 325): Kingdom Lost

Posted January 19, 2023 / 21 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 Kingdom Lost, the first book in the Lost Stones of Argonia series by Dawn Shipman! and […]