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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Happy Friday readers, it’s almost over and the time is coming to settle in and read. If you have plans this weekend, try and stay cool! We’ll be inside relaxing; our kids will be playing some video games while my husband I are reading. Today’s First Lines Friday is a book I just started yesterday and is a captivating read so far about a place called Mercy Peak in Colorado. It’s a small town with a history of miners and some say a secret treasure.
Question of the Day
Would you rather live in a small town or a big city?
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Now onto FIRST LINES FRIDAY!
“To get to Mercy Peak, Colorado, a plucky little locomotive known as a “Galloping Goose” – half train, half automobile – carried the rare visitor up the colorful foothills and into the emerald timberline.
The Galloping Geese – motors numbered 1 through 8 – had tin-toothed grins in the form of a fender-like feature known as a cow-catcher, a term the locals pretended not to notice, out of fondness for their bovine friends. The rail cars galloped daily past landmarks with assuring names such as Lost Canyon, Sawpit, and Lizard Head Pass.”
First Lines Friday reveal…….
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When newcomer Mercy Windsor arrives in Mercy Peak in 1948 after a scandal shatters her gilded world as Hollywood’s beloved leading lady, she is determined to forge a new life in obscurity in this time-forgotten Colorado haven. She purchases Wildwood–an abandoned estate with a haunting history–and begins to restore it to its former glory.
But as she does, her every move tugs at the threads of that mountain’s lore, unearthing what became of her long-lost pen pal, Rusty Bright, and the whereabouts of the infamous Galloping Goose Engine No. 8, which vanished years ago, along with the mailbag it carried, whose contents could change the course of countless lives. Not to mention another fabled treasure that–if found–could right so many wrongs.
Among the towering mountains that stand as silent witnesses, the ghosts of the past entangle with the courage of the present to find a place where healing, friendship, and hope can abide amid a world forever changed.
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