It’s First Line Friday again! 🙂
Earlier this week I went to a Facebook party for the release of Kristi Ann Hunter’s latest novel, An Uncommon Courtship. Regency romance was one of my first loves in fiction (I have a shelf full of Georgette Heyer!) but my reading in the genre has dropped off in recent years – in large part because there are so many other great genres and books! But as I got caught up in all the Facebook fun, I thought, “Hang on a minute. I think I have one of Kristi’s books on my iPad…”
And now I’m remembering why I love Regency romance so much!
So, my first line this week is taken from the first in Kristi Ann’s Hawthorne House series, A Noble Masquerade:
“It is never a happy day when an eight-year-old girl’s cheesecake lands in the dirt, and she certainly doesn’t take kindly to the laughing little boy who put it there.”
Incidentally, now is the perfect time to pick up a copy of this book if you’re an eBook reader, because it’s on a super sale!
Amazon (US) | Amazon (AU) | iBooks | Goodreads
Don’t forget to share your first line below, and then hop on over to visit my friends and share with them too! We love to know what you’re reading 🙂
Carrie – Reading is my SuperPower
Beth – Faithfully Bookish
Rachel – Bookworm Mama
Heather – Encouraging Words from the Tea Queen
Sydney – The Singing Librarian
Andi – Radiant Light
Sarah – All the Book Blog Names are Taken
Robin – Robin’s Nest
Fiction Aficionado 
“On a late afternoon of a surprisingly warm day, a small lad sat on a large stone with the blue of sky and water spreading out before him.” ~The Inheritance, by Michael Phillips~
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Ooh! I haven’t read this one. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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I have A Noble Masquerade and it’s on my TBR list. My first line is:
“Heavy metal music blared through paper-thin walls.” From Time Search by Danele J. Rotharmel
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Better them than me! Lol!
Thanks for stopping by 🙂
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Aren’t the Facebook parties fun?! I have A Noble Masquerade in my TBR.
1987
Samuel Mason sat parked in his white DeSoto across the street from Centerville Christian Church. – and the Shofar Blew by Francine Rivers
HAPPY FRIDAY!
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Facebook parties certainly are fun. Especially the ones in costume!
Happy Friday to you, too 🙂
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Facebook parties are so much fun! until Facebook freezes up on you and you miss half the posts. My first line is from an upcoming book due out Feb. 1.
Folks said Thomas Beaufort could track a housefly through a hurricane, and though he admitted that it might be a slight exaggeration, he felt it wasn’t too far off.
~The Bounty Hunter’s Baby by Erica Vetsch
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Ooh! I like that! I loved Erica’s ‘Cactus Creek’ novel (can’t remember it’s proper name), so I’ll have to check this one out 🙂
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I love Regency novels too! They are some of my favorite books to read. 🙂 I actually have this book sitting on my bookshelf–I still need to read it. 🙂
Here is my first line:
Kit Kat and Lucy by Lonnie Hull DuPont
You will always by lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. Colonial American Proverb
“To say moving from San Francisco to rural Michigan was not easy for me would be an understatement.”
Happy reading and Happy Friday!
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Love the proverb. Lol!
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I LOVE Kristi’s series! Reading book three right now! This week my first line comes from The Bomber War: The Allied Air Offensive Against Nazi Germany by Robin Neillands “This is the story of a machine.” I haven’t started it yet, but looking forward to it!
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Lol! I can hear that line spoken as a dramatic voiceover at the beginning of a cartoon or something! I might need to send my sense of humour in for a service 😂
Enjoy Kristi’s book 🙂
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Wiltshire, England–1867
Amala sat on a particularly uncomfortable chair at the edge of the crowded and stuffy ballroom.
~Color of Love by Anita Stansfield
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Ooh. I haven’t read any of hers yet!
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“They share the truth of an experience that only those who were there can truly know. As part of a regiment of southwestern cowpunchers, Oklahoma Indians, Ivy League football stars, and champion polo players, they had faced death boldly and defeated the enemy.
They had been Rough Riders.”
Rough Riders: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill by Mark Lee Gardner.
Happy Friday!!!
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Yee-ha! What an opening 🙂
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Right??!! I cheated a little and it is actually the last lines of the prologue but it was just so perfect. I am so psyched to start this book tonight!
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“Many a man has been inspired by a great father or a noble brother, and young six-year-old Lord Trent Hawthorne had been blessed with both.” An Uncommon Courtship by Kristi Ann Hunter.
I just got this in the mail, and I’m sooooo excited to read it.
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It’s definitely a Kristi Ann Hunter week!
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I love love love Kristi’s stories!!!
I just finished Rescue Me by Susan May Warren.
Sam wouldn’t lose another kid on his watch.
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Aaahhh! I can’t wait for that one!
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I have so many Susan May Warren titles on my shelf and wishlist, it’s crazy!
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Well, when she turns them out as quickly as she does… 😊
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yeah, no kidding! 😀
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I just got Rescue Me from NetGalley! Yay!
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I’m too scared to request it because I still have one of theirs to review… 😕
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Woo hoo!!! You’re going to love it! I couldn’t put it down!
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yaaaay! I adore this book!
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