Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Reader Friday”
Cornered, Three Romantic Suspense Novellas, by Lynette Eason (In the Dark), Lynn H. Blackburn (Downfall), and Natalie Walters (Perilous Obsession) is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the opening of In the Dark: The September sun had barely risen over the mountain town of Lake City, North Carolina, casting a warm, golden glow that filtered through Stephanie Cross’s kitchen window. She sipped …
Fatal Chapters by Ruth Douthitt is this week’s Reader Friday! Here’s the first line: New Year’s Eve, 2022 Desert Hills, outside of Butte, AZ Sheriff’s Detective Liam Harper bundled up in his thick winter coat, anticipating the icy chill of the dead body before him would match the icy cold desert hill on that early December evening. But first the …
Rescued by Jerusha Agen is this week’s Reader Friday blog. Oh, my goodness. This fast-paced book will keep you reading way into the night! It’s one of five in the anthology, Cold Escape, that you won’t want to miss! Here are the first few lines: The screaming blare sought her in the darkness. A smoke detector? The children. The thought …
Specters in the Glass House by Jaime Jo Wright is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: Mullerian Manor. The countryside near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1921–1 year into Prohibition. Death had always been fashionable. But first the photo and verse. I took the photo during an afternoon walk in my neighborhood and the verse in Lamentations was one I read …
The Warrior’s B & B by Jennie Atkins is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: He promised me he’d stay out of harm’s way. But first the photo and verse. Dottie, one of my blog readers, emailed me this photo earlier this week and gave me permission to use it. I meant to get up at midnight and …
Romeo’s Fire by James Scott Bell is this week’s Reader Friday post. Here’s the first line: “Why aren’t you married?” It was one o’clock in the afternoon and I was washing Mrs. Edna Morgenstern’s windows. But first the photo and verse. It’s the same photo and verse from last week that, for some reason, did not show up in the …
The Case of the Stolen Memories by Deborah Sprinkle is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: A voice inside whispered for her to turn around and go back home. But first the photo and verse. Both are from Delores Topliff. The photo is of the moon over the Irish Sea…I know that was a sight to behold. And the …
When Memory Whispers by Johnnie Alexander is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line of a story I’ve loved since reading it when Johnnie and I were critique partners: “August 1997 ~ Winter Park, Florida Beneath the brim of her black felt hat, Annalee Gilbert stared at the newly engraved granite stone.” But first the photo and verse. I …
Flight Risk by Cara Putman is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the opening: “Savannah, call for you on line one. Says he’s a reporter. Never heard of him.” But first the photo and verse. As I picked up my mail earlier this week, I looked up and these contrails crisscrossed the sky about my house. I hurried inside and grabbed …
I Am In Here by Creston Mapes is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first lines: “I can see, you know. And I can hear. Oh, can I hear.” But first the photo and verse. The photo is another one Delores Topliff took. I believe she saw many sheep on her trip! Now onto I Am In Here by Creston Mapes. …