Welcome to the first week of First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books! More about that at the end. First, I’ve just started on Lynn Austin’s new release, Where We Belong, so I’m looking forward to a good read this weekend!
~ About the Book ~
In the city of Chicago in 1892, the rules for Victorian women are strict, their roles limited. But sisters Rebecca and Flora Hawes are not typical Victorian ladies. Their love of adventure and their desire to use their God-given talents has brought them to the Sinai Desert–and into a sandstorm.
Accompanied by Soren Petersen, their somber young butler, and Kate Rafferty, a street urchin who is learning to be their ladies’ maid, the two women are on a quest to find an important biblical manuscript. As the journey becomes more dangerous and uncertain, the four travelers sift through memories of their past, recalling the events that shaped them and the circumstances that brought them to this time and place.
~ First Line ~
The Sinai Desert
1890
Rebecca Hawes lay awake in her tent, convinced that the howling wind was about to lift her entire camp into the air and hurl it to the far side of the desert.
Sorry if you got some grit in your hair!
I’d love it if you’d share the first line of whatever you’re currently reading in the comments. From this week onward, if you want to find out what other bloggers are sharing for First Line Friday, you can hop on over to Hoarding Books blog and find all the links. If you’ve got your own blog, why not join in and add your link over there. 🙂
Ooh, I can totally feel that first line. Haha.
I’m sharing about “Witness Protection” by Carol Kinsey on the blog today, but I’m going to share the first line from the book I’m currently reading here.
“All of the stories have been written, including mine.”
Lu. by Beth Troy
Oh, I saw that one a while ago and thought it was interesting. Thanks for the reminder!
Wow! Brings you right into the tent with her. Great start to the book!
I’ve joined the FLF fun and featured a book on my blog, but I will feature a different one here: After A Fashion by Jen Turano. I haven’t started it yet, but it’s next on my list of books to read. “Miss Peabody, I do so hate to interrupt your work, but an urgent message has just arrived that requires immediate attention.”
Welcome to all the FLF fun! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Ooh!!! I signed up for this one and can’t wait until it’s in my mailbox!!!
My first line from “The Colors of Christmas” (Olivia Newport) which I need to read this weekend: “They rode in silence, the murmur of Alex’s expensive late-model white SUV lulling Astrid into drowsiness.”
I’m really enjoying it. Hope yours arrives soon!
Thanks!
I love Lynn Austin’s books. 🙂 Happy Friday!
I’m really enjoying it!
Happy Friday!!! My first line is from Mission Undercover by Virginia Vaughan:
“Blake Michaels pulled into the parking lot of Northshore Medical Center and cut the engine.”
Ooh, I haven’t heard of that one. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for sharing!
I need to read a Lynn Austin novel. I’ve heard good things…it’s just time. I need some more book-reading time!
I’m currently reading An Inconvenient Beauty by Kristi Ann Hunter, and that’s the book I’m doing on my FLF post today, so here I will post the first line from the novel I’m reading next. The next book on my schedule is Rancher to the Rescue by Barbara Phinney.
Proud Bend, Colorado, April, 1883
“Did I read that right?” Clare Walsh peered up from her chair at the Recording Office in Proud Bend, Colorado. She blinked rapidly. “My parents are gone?”
I think we could all use more book reading time! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I dig the cover. Happy Friday!
It’s given me wanderlust!
What a fantastic visual! I’m sharing the first line from Written in the Dust by Christina Coryell over on my blog. Guess both our blogs will need a little dusting. 😉 wah-wah Bad joke, I know. What can I say? Couldn’t resist. It’s Friday!!! 🙂
LOL! I genuinely laughed at that, so it can’t have been that bad!
hahahaha!!
Such a great read!!
Here’s the first line of the book currently closest to me – “Someone had left the front door open.” – Portrait of Vengeance by Carrie Stuart Parks
Ahhhhhhh I NEED to read this! I have requested it from Netgalley….fingers crossed lol!
I loved it! Hope you get it soon!