First Line Friday – The Cul-de-Sac War (Melissa Ferguson)

Posted 27 November 2020 by Katie in Contemporary, First Line Fridays, Humour, Romance / 3 Comments

Happy Friday, and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. Anyone else love a good rom-com? They can be hit-or-miss for me, but I really enjoyed Melissa Ferguson’s debut last year, so I’m looking forward to reading The Cul-de-Sac War.

About the Book

Bree Leake doesn’t want to be tied down. She’s had more jobs than she can count–and the next stop on her journey is The Barter, the nation’s oldest live performance theater in Abingdon, Virginia. But just when it’s time to move on again, Bree’s parents make her an offer; hold steady in Abingdon for one full year, and they will give her the one thing she’s always wanted–her grandmother’s house. Her dreams are coming true . . . until life at the theater throws her some curve balls.

And then there’s her new neighbor. Chip McBride.

For the first time in her life, she’s met the person who could match her free-spirited air–and it’s driving her to the ledge of sanity. She would move heaven and earth to have him out of her life, but according to the bargain she’s struck, she cannot move out of her house and away from the man who’s making her life miserable. So begins Bree’s obsessive new mission: to drive Chip out of the neighborhood–and fast.

Bree isn’t the only one who’s a wee bit competitive, and as Chip registers what Bree’s up to, he’s more than willing to fight fire with fire. But as their pranks escalate, the line between love and hate starts to blur.

In Melissa Ferguson’s latest rom-com, two enemies find something they never expected in one another–taking “all’s fair in love and war” to a hilarious and heartwarming new level.

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. 🙂

3 responses to “First Line Friday – The Cul-de-Sac War (Melissa Ferguson)

  1. Becky

    Happy Friday! My first line is from “Only You” by Susan May Warren, and is free for subscribing to her website:

    “Her happy ending was out there, at the end of the beam of her headlamp, and if Ree kept running, surely she would find it.”

  2. I loved this book!

    Happy Friday! 🙂
    I’m sharing the first line from Nicole by Sarah Monzon on my blog: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2020/11/27/first-line-friday-163/. I’m just beginning chapter 4, so I will share a line from there:
    “I’d learned early on in medical school to utilize any spare minute I could find.”
    Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I wish you a relaxing weekend filled with fun reading time! 🙂❤️📚

  3. Paula Shreckhise

    My first line is from TO STEAL A HEART by Jen Turano
    November 1886 New York City
    It was quickly becoming evident that she, Miss Gabriella Goodhue, might very well be arrested in the nit-too-distant future, and all because she’d convinced herself that sneaking into a high-society costume ball would be a relatively easy feat, given her past life as a street thief .

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