First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page.
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first.
- Finally… reveal the book!
Happy Friday everyone! This has been a CRAZY BUSY week in our house and I am ready for a LONG WEEKEND with tons and tons of reading. Our kids have been busy with our homeschool group doing activities now that the weather is GORGEOUS outside. It’s been wonderful being outside, but I’m ready for a weekend inside, curled up with my books.
Question: What will you be reading this weekend?
Now onto FIRST LINES FRIDAY!
BREATHE IN. BREATHE OUT.
I’m making lemonade. It’s all good. I don’t smell like puke.
I don’t smell like puke.
I’m making lemonade.
It’s all good.
I definitely don’t smell –
“You smell like puke. Here.” Nadine sets a change of clothes on the bench behind me and heads for a bathroom stall. “They’re my backup – backup scrubs. Return them when you can.”
First Lines Friday reveal…….
My mangled heart beats for her, but hers beats for him… And maybe me.
I’ve never been one for norms. I fight and bake for a living.
Why should I expect my sex-life to be any different?
And I don’t mean love-life. I don’t do love.
I’ve been there. Done that. My heart is mangled for a reason.
My best friend, Walker, and I like to share… As in together.
I’m a transactional, one-time only kinda guy.
Then we met her.
She set off a seismic tremor that threatened to crumble the wall around my heart.
She haunts my thoughts, sinking under my skin like a demon.
Unrelenting.
Remorseless.
I hate how easily thoughts of her sway my body and mind.
It’s a constant battle of wills between what I want and what I can have.
She’s not meant for me. I’m not her forever, regardless of Walker or my treacherous heart trying to convince me otherwise.
I’m her right now—that’s all I can ever be.
D.M. Davis’ MUSTANG is an angsty, heart clenching, why-choose, contemporary sports romance that has Jess fighting his desires, Walker praying he won’t be forgotten, and Berklyn willing to lose them both because she won’t choose one over the other.
Buy now to get lost in this steamy why-chose romance with all the feels.
MUSTANG is Book Five and the last in the Black Ops MMA series.
Black Ops MMA Series:
NO MERCY
ROWDY
CAPTAIN
COWBOY
MUSTANG
Looking for book recs…
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