Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. I’m a fairly eclectic reader, but time travel is one genre I don’t usually pick up. But right now, I’m in the middle of my SECOND time travel novel of 2021. The first book in Amy Matayo’s Charles & Company Romance series released this week: Before Time Runs Out, and I’m loving it so far. There’s a lot of fun to be had with a character from the 1940s and a character from the twenty-first century meeting up in the 1870s!
About the Book
Graduate student Bree Sanders is failing the one class she needs to get her degree. So when her professor gives her an ultimatum—ace her thesis or risk having to repeat her final semester—she knows she has to pull out all the stops. After scrambling for an idea, she decides to create her own Ghost Club, a club that blames ghosts for unsolved crimes, the same type of club originally founded two centuries ago by Charles Dickens.
What she doesn’t expect is to find an original copy of one of Dickens’ early works, or to be transplanted into Dickens’s actual ghost club meeting, circa 1870, the instant she picks it up.
When Bree shows up in nineteenth-century England wearing cut-offs and an old t-shirt, her only option is to hide. The London of 1870 won’t look kindly on a woman dressed like her. So, when Theodore Keyes finds her tucked behind a bookcase at the King’s College library and immediately demands to know where she came from, she knows he doesn’t belong here either. Turns out she’s right; the same book caused him to time-travel from 1947 almost three months ago and he’s been stuck in England since.
Together, the two vow to work side-by-side in their search for the lost book that will take them home. But as their feelings for one another deepen, Theo and Bree are caught between a desire to return to the lives they each left behind, and the knowledge that if they find the book, they won’t be able to leave together.
In the end, they each must decide which sacrifice is worth making—the one that will cost them their hearts, or the one that could cost them their very existence.
First Line
I’d love it if you’d share the first line of whatever you’re currently reading in the comments. And don’t forget, you can find out what other bloggers are sharing for First Line Friday by going over to Hoarding Books blog and finding all the links. If you’ve got your own blog, why not join in and add your link over there. 🙂
I love that cover! Today I’m sharing the first line from Hours to Kill by Susan Sleeman. Happy Friday!
My first line is from Braced for Love by Mary Connealy
August 1870 Bear Claw Pass, Wyoming
Kevin Hunt came awake with a snap. A metallic clink. He didn’t need to figure out more.
Happy Friday!
Today on my blog I’m sharing the first line from A Captain for Caroline Grey by Julie Wright: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2021/03/12/first-line-friday-175/. It’s such a good book!!!! Currently, I’m reading To Love a Prince by Rachel Hauck, so I’ll share a line from there.
“Today was one of those Mondays that stretched the limits of her royal demeanor.”
Hope you have a great weekend! 😀❤📚
Happy Weekend! My first line is from “Sing Me Back Home” by Amanda Mason:
“Lane McCay strummed his fingertips against the steering wheel to the beat of the country music blaring from his truck’s radio – his fingertips being the only part of his body that he could move without regret.”