Welcome to another addition of First Line Friday! Today I’m featuring a three for one deal with novellas by Ruth Logan Herne and Beth Jamison in The Sewing Sisters’ Society.

Join in with other on FLF, hosted by Hoarding Books and see all of today’s first line. Comment below to share your current read.

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The first line from The Pastor Takes a Wife:

“It was now or never Macy Evers realized as she faced the dust-covered store-front of Hattie’s Shirt Shop, Fine Goods Available by Order.”

 

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The first line from Second Chance Christmas:

“She’d escaped with the money sewn into the hem of her petticoat, the clothes on her back and the one simple frock she’d snatched from the clothes line before the Allegheny City Police came to arrest her.”

 

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The first line from Second Chance at Love:

“Ann should have stayed right where she was in Pennsylvania.”

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Hattie McGillicuddy might not look like your typical matchmaker, but Hattie makes things happen in the little town of Second Chance, South Dakota. With the arrival of the railroad and official statehood, Hattie’s determined to bring brides west, and not just any brides. Brides who need the wide open prairie as much as the prairie- and the prairie men- need them! Three pioneer stories of unlikely love are woven around a little town full of homespun characters that take us back to another place and another time but with the same faith, hope and love we cherish today.

Macy can’t sew a lick, and she’s come to town with a sacrifice and a secret, but when Hattie’s first apprentice is attracted to the pastor of the only church in town—the man raising her illegitimate son— will the truth set her free? Or make her leave the town and her son behind?

Unjustly accused, Nellie comes west to escape the law. She has a way with tucks and gathers, and every Western town could use more tucks and gathers. She’s determined to improve the drab look of the prairie and manages to brighten hearts as well. But will her quick speech and firm ideas of women’s suffrage draw Levi Eichas closer or send the somber carriage maker running? 

Grief has robbed Ann Hazel, but when her aunt pushes her to go west and help an ailing Hattie McGillicuddy turn hems, Ann’s shamed into it. She’s managed to avoid life for awhile, but when Sol Eichas’s nanny comes down sick, Ann reluctantly agrees to help. As she winds her way around Sol’s heart and home, can the two troubled souls leave the past behind to embrace a future together? 

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