Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I hope you’ve all had a wonderful Christmas with friends and family. We certainly did, but now I’m trying to get my head around the fact that 2019 will be ending in less than a week. 😳 With that in mind, I looked at my list of 2020 new releases for inspiration for today’s First Line Friday post, and the first 2020 release on my TBR is When I Come Home Again by Jennifer Rodewald. So 2020 is looking good already! 🙂
About the Book
Brenna Blaum had been sure of three things in her life—her brother, her running, and her dad’s star receiver. But in a matter of a year’s time, everything she’d counted on fell apart, leaving her devastated. Seven years later, she’s stable again. She has a supportive boyfriend, fulfilling career, and close friends. She keeps her past heartache where it belongs—in her rearview mirror. Until the man who broke her heart finds his way back to Big Prairie.
Craig Erikson had it all—popularity, success, and the love of his high school coach’s daughter. But after a year of mistakes that ended in a tragic accident, he’d left Big Prairie—the place he’d thought to always call home—hoping that without his antagonizing presence, Brenna would be able to heal. Now his mother desperately needs him, as do two young boys in her care. Craig has little choice but to return for good.
Unsure that she can forgive him, Brenna does her best to avoid him. Irritated that she ignores him as if they’d never meant anything to each other, Craig becomes determined not to allow it.
Life in a small town forces their interaction, making them confront their unresolved issues and igniting emotions that have smoldered for seven years. As Craig and Brenna are pushed together, can they endure the hard places still littering their lives? If so, is it possible to find their way back to love and home again?
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. 🙂
OHHHH! 🙂 This makes me smile so much! Thank you, Katie! <3 I've got Where the Fire Falls in my hands: "Olivia Rutherford applied lip rouge the same way she painted—with bold, broad strokes."
My pleasure. And I love Karen Barnett’s Vintage National Parks series 🙂
Happy holidays!
Today on my blog I’m sharing the first few lines from The Perfect Christmas by Bell Renshaw: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2019/12/26/first-line-friday-116/. I’m currently reading Veiled in Smoke by Jocelyn Green so I’ll share a line from there.
“It was a lie, Meg had realized years ago, that the end of the war meant the end of suffering.”
Hope you have an excellent weekend filled with awesome reading time. 😊❤📖
Can’t wait to read Jocelyn’s book. And we’re pretty busy here, clearing out our house before it gets demolished in January! But hoping to fit in some reading time between the clearing 🙂
Your house is getting demolished?! Does that mean you’re getting a brand new, pretty home?
Surely does! It’s very exciting! We have been so cramped for so long…
So exciting!!! I’ll be praying everything goes smoothly. 😊
This week on my blog I shared the first line from Isaiah’s Daughter by Mesu Andrews but I’m currently reading Veiled in Smoke by Jocelyn Green so I’ll share the first line from my current chapter (18) here: “Dust clouded Nate’s steps as he sloughed through a southwest section of the burned district.” Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have a happy new year!
Today I’m sharing the first line from A Silver Willow by the Shore by Kelli Stuart: “I know when someone’s holding a secret.” Have a great rest of the weekend!
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/12/first-line-fridays-silver-willow-by.html