Happy Friday, reader friends. It’s time for First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books and this week I’m sharing the first line of a book I am not-so-patiently waiting to read: The London Restoration by Rachel McMillan. London, churches, and music, oh my! It was almost too much temptation just reading the first line!
Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. My reading this week has consisted of INSPY reading (as one of the judges in the YA category this year), but I have sooooo many books waiting once I’m finished, including Amanda Barratt’s The White Rose Resists, which I’m anxious to read (with a box of tissues by my side). Anyone else have books taunting them from their TBR pile? Oh, who am I kidding? That’s probably all of you! 😊
Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. A new book from Lynn Austin is always something to look forward to, and the plot of her latest release, If I Were You has me all kinds of intrigued. It released last Tuesday, so it’s hot off the press, and I can’t wait to dive in! Any of my readers out there Lynn Austin fans?
Glamour, treachery, and espionage collide when an English socialite rushes to save her sister from the Nazis.
As the daughter of Sir Alfred Whitford, Kat has a certain set of responsibilities. But chasing her wayward sister, Ellie, to Nazi-occupied Paris was never supposed to be one of them. Now accustomed to the luxurious lifestyle that her Nazi boyfriend provides, Ellie has no intention of going back to the shackled life their parents dictate for them—but Kat will stop at nothing to bring her sister home.
Arrested for simply trying to defend himself against a drunken bully, Barrett Anderson is given the option of going to jail or serving out his sentence by training Resistance fighters in Paris. A bar owner serves as the perfect disguise to entertain Nazis at night while training fighters right below their jackboots during the day…
As war approaches in 1939 Abby Stapleton’s safety is under threat. Her father, a British diplomat, insists she go back to America until the danger passes. Abby vows to return to her home in London—but where is home? With her family facing mortal danger so far away and feeling herself isolated, she finds it hard to pray or read the Bible. Did she leave God behind in war-torn London too? Abby becomes friendly with Jim, a gardener on her uncle’s estate.
Jim can’t get Abby out of his mind. Did she have a sweetheart in England? Was it foolish to think she’d consider him?
A staggering love illuminating the dark corners of a Nazi prison
Renowned German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is famous for his resistance to the Nazi regime and for his allegiance to God over government. But what few realize is that the last years of his life also held a love story that rivals any romance novel.
Maria von Wedemeyer knows the realities of war. Her beloved father and brother have both been killed on the battlefield.
Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I’ve always wanted to know more about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, so when I learned that Amanda Barratt was writing a novel based on his relationship with Maria von Wedemeyer I was very excited. Since My Dearest Dietrich released last Tuesday, I have been hearing sooooo many rave reviews that I’m even more excited to be finally diving in myself!
Hamish DeLuca and Regina “Reggie” Van Buren have a new case—and this one brings the war in Europe dangerously close to home.
Determined to make a life for herself, Regina “Reggie” Van Buren bid goodbye to fine china and the man her parents expected her to marry and escaped to Boston. What she never expected to discover was that an unknown talent for sleuthing would develop into a business partnership with the handsome, yet shy, Hamish DeLuca.