Happy Good Friday and First Line Friday! I haven't participated in First Line Friday since December so I thought I'd make it up with two first lines from two April releases.
26 Below by Kimberley Woodhouse
About the book:
In her new role as Emergency Operations Center director for Fairbanks, Alaska, Darcie Phillips prevents disasters. But none of her training can prepare her for the terror that's coming.
As a cybersecurity specialist, Jason Myers is determined to ferret out any threats to the town he now calls home--and that includes his reckless brother and his eco-terrorist friends.
When an old woman's wild prediction--widespread destruction as soon as the Fairbanks temperature falls to 26 below--hits national headlines, neither Darcie nor Jason sees a real risk to anything but tourism.
Then the bodies start dropping.
Darcie is relying on her experience and intelligence to stop a killer; Jason is relying on God to guide the way. They'll have to work together to find the truth and prevent their Alaskan town from becoming a city of nightmares. The first in a thrilling new suspense series from best-selling author Kimberley Woodhouse.
First Line:
50 Above Zero
October 1--2 pm
Fairbanks
First official day on the job as Emergency Operations Center director, and Darcie Phillips found herself wanting to play hooky.
A pretty amazing first line, huh? Makes you wonder why she wants to play hooky, huh?!
The Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jamie Jo Wright
About the book:
In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a position as housemaid at a midwestern Wisconsin castle and finds that the reclusive and eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides more than the harrowing tales in her novels. With women disappearing from the area and a legend that seems to parallel these eerie circumstances, Daisy is thrust into a web that may threaten to steal her sanity, if not her life.
In the present day, Cleo Clemmons is hired by the grandson of American aristocratic family the Tremblays to help his matriarchal grandmother face her hoarding in the dilapidated Castle Moreau. But when Cleo uncovers more than just the woman's stashes of collectibles, a century-old mystery of disappearance, insanity, and the dust of the old castle's curse threatens to rise again, and this time, leave no one alive to tell its sordid tale.
In the present day, Cleo Clemmons is hired by the grandson of American aristocratic family the Tremblays to help his matriarchal grandmother face her hoarding in the dilapidated Castle Moreau. But when Cleo uncovers more than just the woman's stashes of collectibles, a century-old mystery of disappearance, insanity, and the dust of the old castle's curse threatens to rise again, and this time, leave no one alive to tell its sordid tale.
First Line:
May 8, 1801
When I was a little girl, my father would often come to my bedside after my screams wakened him in the night.
Another great first line. Why was the little girl screaming in the night?
Have you read either of these books? I'm currently reading 26 Below and you don't want to miss it!
What are your first lines? Leave them in the comments.
