Welcome to another installment of First Line Fridays, hosted by Hoarding Books. Today is a special installment. As far as I know this is the first feature of this story in a FLF. I LOVE it when authors’ book babies that they’ve been dreaming of for a long time finally come to be. Big congratulations to my friend Rachel. I’m so glad you found the courage to share Klaus with the world.
Love in Three Quarter Time by Rachel McMillan
“If Evelyn Watt’s life were projected on a movie screen, it might look like the strand of Laura Linney’s story in Love, Actually.”
But, I have to say, guys, that while this is First Line Friday, I absolutely adored the last paragraph. They don’t get enough love, and this one is so full of it. Read it so you can see what I mean!
Giveaway
To celebrate the last day of my Blogiversary week, I’m giving away an ebook copy of Rachel’s Love in Three Quarter Time so you can relish in the romance yourself. The giveaway will be open for one week. As always, please read my terms and conditions for giveaways and it’s open to US residents only. Click on the link here to enter a Rafflecopter giveaway.
Remember to enter the other giveaways this week!
Why I Read – With Carrie @ Reading Is My Superpower
Blogiversary Extravaganza! Things I wish I Knew When I Started a Blog
So, grab the book nearest you and comment what your first line is (with title and author, of course!) and then head over to Hoarding Books to see all of the other books/blogs featured today.
Kat's Corner Books 
Thanks for offering a copy to one of your lucky readers. I clicked on the rafflecopter and it takes me to your Home Town Hero giveaway not this book featured today.
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ooo! Thanks! I’ll check it!
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All fixed! Sorry about that!
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Thanks! That was fast! Have a wonderful weekend.
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I’m reading this soon. Yay!!
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I’d love to read this one!
Salazar Sanso raised his binoculars and looked out over the edge of the steep drop into the rosy New Mexican desert. – Burn by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy
Happy Friday and Happy Reading!
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oooo suspense!
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I have won books from blogs and got an email just yesterday announcing my win. I added this book to my TBR as I love the promise of romance and the title is intriguing.
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Love Actually is one of my most favorite movies ever! I will definitely have to check this book out.
Happy Friday!
Over on my blog I am showcasing Naomi Rawlings’s novel Love’s Bright Tomorrow. Here I will share the first line from the novel I am currently reading, Mary and Bright by Shannon Graupman.
“Mary Bradford’s heart raced as she sat on the edge of her king sized bed — her gaze affixed on the single white sheet of paper resting on the nightstand.”
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I remember when Rachel said she was writing a contemporary and how freeing it was! This will be a blast!
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Happy Friday! Here are my lines “On a drowsy Sunday afternoon, a man in a long dark coat hesitated in front or a house on a tree-lined street. He hadn’t parked a car, nor had he come by taxi. No neighbor had seen him strolling along the sidewalk. He simply appeared, as if stepping between one shadow and the next.”
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What is the author and title, please?
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Love the cover–this looks like a great book. 🙂 Happy Friday!
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Happy Friday to you as well!
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My first line is from a book but Andrea Boeshaar: My Heat Belongs in the Shenandoah Valley. Part of the first page fourth paragraph down.
A light breeze cooled the sudden perspiration on Mac’s brow. The war was over. Besides, Father was counting on him to make something of himself— prove the gossips wrong— in this new land in the Shenandoah Valley.
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I do win a lot of books on blogs. I’d like to win The Lacemaker or The House on Foster Hill!
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The Lacemaker is good! HoFH is on my TBR pile as well. I’ve heard good things.
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I thought this was a historical romance based on the cover, but that first line is definitely contemporary. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for sharing!
I’m sharing the first line from Aint Misbehaving by Marji Laine on my blog. I’m currently reading My Sister’s Prayer by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould. It’s the middle book in a trilogy and I really shouldn’t have read the third book first, because it did ruin some of the big-picture suspense. Here’s the first line:
The cry for help came as I was coasting toward the bicycle rack at the far end of the story.
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Yes, it’s a contemporary. While Rachel usually writes historicals, she has one contemporary Christmas novella out, and this novella is the start of a new 3 novella series.
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Sounds great! Thanks for the free ebook First Line Friday!
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Make sure to enter the giveaway!
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An interesting start to a book. I am featuring one of Margaret Coel books about the Arapahoe indians.
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‘Love in Three Quarter Time’ sounds delightful and I am adding it to my TBR list!
I have won books and some other prizes from blog giveaways. I would love to win ‘A Song Unheard’ by Roseanna M. White.
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It is a great read! I was privileged to be part of the Celebrate Lit tour for it.
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Happy Friday! (What’s left!) My first lines (sorry, but I included the 2nd) is from These Healing Hills by Ann H. Gabhart:
“Francine Howard stepped off the bus into another world. She should have been prepared.”
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Now apology needed! Sometimes you need it.
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I have won books and mugs from blogs. 🙂
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can’t wait to read this one!
My current first line is from Cathy Gohlke’s Until We Find Home: “Lightning crackled, splitting the night sky over Paris, illuminating letters painted on the bookstore window across the street: La Maison des Amis des Livres.”
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Is it in English? hehe. I like the title! The house of the friends of books. It’s been a lot of years since I had to read a whole book in French.
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I’ve won books and gift cards as well as other fun items like scarf, candles, candy, bookmarks, notebooks.
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Fun! You enter some creative giveaways.
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Death at Thorburn Hall by Julianna Deering – “Madeline Farthering gripped her husband’s arm a little more tightly as they made their way through the mass of people crowding Waverly Station, certain that if they were separated in this chaos she’d never be able to find him again.”
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For the contest, yes, I’ve won contests, but I think only one from a blog. That prize was a nice ceramic loose tea tumbler. Other book-related contest prizes have been books, candy, popcorn, bookmarks and a t-shirt. Thanks for the chance to win.
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mmmm popcorn!
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