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!
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What a busy week filled with lots of wonderful reading! Hopefully you’re all ready for the weekend as well and it’s soon to be here. Another full day of work and then settle into a few days of uninterrupted reading.
Today’s First Lines Friday features a short novella that I started yesterday and that had the most wonderful dedication at the beginning. It’s a clean historical romance and features a quick love born aboard a ship on the travels from England to the Virginia colonies.
Question: What will you be reading this weekend?
Now onto FIRST LINES FRIDAY!
Lucy Pryor sat alone on the back pew. If anyone had turned around, they would have seen her wiping tears from her face and thought she truly mourned her late mistress. And why not? Lucy had served the cantankerous old woman for the last decade of her life. Naturally, the eulogy would affect her.
First Lines Friday reveal…….
Wager For a Kiss – Stephanie McRae
It’s a simple wager. One kiss and he’s free from the sea. But he’s never met the woman. And when he does…she wants nothing to do with him.
1774, England
Dave Smith gave up on women when his hair turned gray and his swagger stiffened. Now, all he wants is a pair of hunting hounds and a cottage in the English countryside. That’s when Captain Crawford offers a wager too good to refuse–if he wins, he’ll have enough money to leave the sea forever. All he has to do is get a certain lady’s maid to kiss him before the voyage is complete.
Lucy Pryor has never seen a ship before, but she has heard all about sailors–shameless flirts with a woman in every port. Her prejudices are confirmed when the ship’s navigator starts sweet-talking her. She refuses to be one more conquest. She won’t fall for his ready smile and rehearsed compliments–words that mean nothing to him and everything to her. After all, what does a sailor know about a woman’s longing for a home of her own?
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Wager for a Kiss is a novella supplement to The Lady and the Loyalist. The stories can be read in any order. They are both clean and wholesome Christian romances with chemistry but not steam.
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Stephanie McRae is a descendant of American patriots, including one soldier who died at Valley Forge. She is also the wife of a US Navy veteran. While their family of seven was stationed in Virginia, they took many opportunities to visit Colonial Virginia. It was during one of these trips that the idea for her first historical novel was born.
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