Welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Reading is my SuperPower! It’s time to grab the book you’re reading, and share the first line!
Today I’m sharing the first line of my last read of 2024 – I shared my review yesterday in case you missed it. It was such a great book to end the year with!!! It just made my fairy tale retelling heart so happy. And don’t let this first line fool you – it is a romance novel, and so much more. 🙂
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About the Book

Author Karen Witemeyer
Published by Baker Books
on December 17, 2024
Genres: Fiction / Christian / Historical, Fiction / Christian / Romance / Historical, Fiction / Romance / Historical / American
Pages: 352
AmazonTrust no one in the shadows of the piney woods . . .
Letty Hood has spent the last fifteen years of her life hidden away with her grandmother in the backwoods of east Texas to escape the deadly schemes of an uncle who wants her dead. Now, with her twenty-first birthday on the horizon, she is forced to accept the escort of a stranger and return to Houston in secret so she can claim a birthright that will make her one of the wealthiest women in Texas. If she lives long enough to inherit.
Pinkerton agent Philip Carmichael has one duty: get the Radcliffe heiress home alive. Expecting a spoiled girl, Philip is surprised to encounter a woman of rare strength with a kind soul and keen wit. As they journey together, Letty's resilience wins his admiration, breaking through his hardened cynicism. Yet the threat to her survival grows more menacing with every mile, and Philip fears that keeping Letty out of harm's way may be just as impossible as keeping her out of his heart.
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I’m intrigued already!
Whoa! That’s some first line!!!
Happy Friday!
I’m currently reading 12 Days of Mistletoe by Jen Atkinson. It’s a really good story.
“ Elliot opens the door and looks at me like I’m a new puppy, all wrapped up for Christmas.”
I hope you have a great weekend full of relaxing reading time. 🙂❤️📚
I’ve not read her before but I have heard so many good things!
Oh man, this book starts off with a bang!
I forgot to post my Friday56 post last night but it is up now. Check it out: https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2025/01/review-book-of-doors-friday56-linkup.html