First Line Friday

First Line Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Hoarding Books. If you have a blog and would like to participate, simply share your link on the Hoarding Books post for the week. Even if you don't have a blog, you can still visit each of the links and share your own first line. But be warned: Participation can have a detrimental effect on your wallet! Not to mention your TBR . . . 

Below is a list of books I have featured for First Line Friday, arranged alphabetically by author.

AFSHAR, Tessa – Bread of Angels
ALEXANDER, Tamera – With This Pledge
ANDREWS, Mesu – By the Waters of Babylon
ANDREWS, Mesu – Isaiah’s Daughter
ARTHUR, Sarah – A Light So Lovely
AUSTIN, Lynn – Where We Belong

BASHAM, Pepper – Charming the Troublemaker
BERGREN, Lisa T. – Keturah
BLACKSTOCK, Terri – If I Run
BRANDES, Nadine – Fawkes
BUSSE, Morgan L. – Mark of the Raven

CALLAHAN, Patti – Becoming Mrs. Lewis
CHASE, Serena – Intermission
CORYELL, Christina – The Ways We Fall Apart
CORYELL, Christina – Written in the Stars
COUCH, Angela – The Tory’s Daughter

DANIELS, Georgiana – Shadows of Hope
DEERING, Julianna – Death at Thorburn Hall
DEESE, Nicole – A New Shade of Summer
DILLON, Christine – Grace in the Shadows
DOBSON, Melanie – Hidden in the Stars

EASON, Lynette – Chasing Secrets

FERGUSON, Janet – Magnolia Storms

GANSHERT, Katie – Life After
GERMAINE, Laurie – Tinsel in a Tangle
GORECKI, Meghan M. – Amongst the Roses
GRAY, Tammy L. – My Hope Next Door
GRAY, Tammy L. – The Truth Between Us
GREEN, Jocelyn – Between Two Shores
GREEN, Jocelyn – Refuge Assured

HAVIG, Chautona – Will Not See
HAYNIE, Jennifer – Loose Ends
HENSLEY, Dennis E. – The Man Who Could Transfuse Time
HUNT, Angela – Egypt’s Sister
HUNT, Angela – Judah’s Wife

ISAAC, Kara – Then There Was You

JOHNSON, Liz – Where Two Hearts Meet
JONES, Jenny B. – His Mistletoe Miracle
JONES, Jenny B. – Royally in Trouble
JONES, Katherine Scott – Shadow Sister

KACZMAREK, Bethany – Strains of Silence
KENDIG, Ronie – Crown of Souls
KENDIG, Ronie – Fierian
KENDIG, Ronie – Firethorn
KENDIG, Ronie – Nightshade
KENDIG, Ronie – Thirst of Steel
KNIZLEY, Venessa – Beneath Outstretched Arms

LAUREANO, Carla – Brunch at Bittersweet Cafè
LEE, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
LEE, Tosca – Firstborn
LEIGH, Tamara – Merciless
LINDEN, Rachel – Becoming the Talbot Sisters
LOCKE, Thomas – Fault Lines

McKAY, Lisa – My Hands Came Away Red
McMILLAN, Rachel – Rose in Three Quarter Time
MATAYO, Amy – Lies We Tell Ourselves
MATTHEWS, Mimi – A Holiday by Gaslight
MILLER, Carolyn – The Making of Mrs. Hale
MONSON, Stacy – Open Circle
MONZON, Sarah – The Esther Paradigm
MONZON, Sarah – Freedom’s Kiss
MORRISON, Yvonne – An Aussie Night Before Christmas

NEWMAN, Erynn – Out of Darkness

ORCHARD, Sandra – Another Day, Another Dali
ORCHARD, Sandra – Over Maya Dead Body

PETERSHEIM, Jolina – The Divide
PITTMAN, Allison – The Seamstress
PUTMAN, Cara – Beyond Justice

RODES, J. – Charging the Darkness
RODES, J. – Emerald Illusion
RODES, J. – Tearing the Veil
RODES, J. – The Uncloaked (later renamed The Resistance)
RODEWALD, Jennifer – The Cupcake Dilemma
RODEWALD, Jennifer – Finding Evergreen

SARGENT, Karen – Waiting For Butterflies
SLATTERY, Jennifer – Dancing in the Rain
SMITH, Jill Eileen – Redeeming Grace
STEVENS, Amanda G. – No Less Days

TAGG, Melissa – All This Time
TYSINGER, Teresa – Someplace Familiar

WALTON, Crystal – Begin Again
WALTON, Crystal – Chasing Someday
WALTON, Crystal – Just Maybe
WARREN, Susan May – Storm Front
WARREN, Susan May – Troubled Waters
WEST, Catherine – The Memory of You
WEST, Catherine – Where Hope Begins
WILSON, Abigail – In the Shadow of Croft Towers
WRIGHT, Jaime Jo – The Curse of Misty Wayfair
WRIGHT, Jaime Jo – The House on Foster Hill
WRIGHT, Jaime Jo – The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond

YOUNTS, Elizabeth Byler – The Solace of Water