Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Reader Friday”
Fatal Standoff (Desert Shadows Suspense Book 2) by Ruth Douthitt is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: It’d been one of those weeks–the kind that made even the simplest task feel overwhelming. But first the photo and verse. This is one of the grands racing into the waves at Dauphin Island. He’s the adrenalin junkie–never met a challenge …
The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House by Joanna Davidson Politano is this week’s Reader Friday. Here are the opening lines: Grafton, Shropshire, England, 1901. It was a strangely calm morning in March, with no wind off the dales, when the woman I assumed to be my mother slipped into the shop. But first the photo and verse. The photo was …
Story Magic by Terri Lynn Thompson is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the opening: In Ireland magic was real. I knew if I could make it through the school year to summer, we would pack our bags and fly to that wonderful land of fantasy, where strong men fought dragons to save their fair ladies, where fairies lurked behind every …
The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd Book 1) by Charles Martin is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the opening: “Three miles distant, the trail of smoke spiraled upward. Thick and black it poured from the twin supercharged diesels housed in the engine room. Orange and red flames licked the smoke against a fading blue skyline, telling me the fire was hot and …
Sweet Double-Cross is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first paragraph: “Dead. They’re all dead.” Biochemist Dennis Early stared at the Sweet County, Florida, cornfield in disbelief. The sun crested the tree line and colored the muggy Florida morning with an eerie orange. He swiped at a bead of sweat—not from the weather but out of horror—seeing the devastation of …
Two Seconds Too Late by Dani Pettrey is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the opening: Thwack. The bullet collided with the car at Riley’s back a moment before a retort echoed in the stale air of the junkyard. But first the photo and verse. It’s that time of year again when the magnolias bloom in Mississippi. It’s the state flower, …
Broker of Lies, (A Travis Brock Thriller Book 1) by Steven James is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first few lines: Providence Memorial Hospital Burn Unit, Washington, DC. Zoe Hughes eyed the door. “He’s in there?” A nod from her supervisor, a nurse who’d been working in the burn ward for nearly twenty years. Kathleen Capron had seen it …
Shattered Sanctuary by Nancy Mehl is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line. Prologue: He stood over the rough-hewn coffin, gazing at the face of his mother–the only person who had ever loved him. But first the photo and verse that I almost saved for Easter. It’s another great photo from Tim Johnson and I love it! Did you …
Storm Warning by Elizabeth Goddard is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’re the first lines: “Deja Vu. A premonition. Call it what you want, but Jo Cattrel had always had a feeling it would come to this.” But first the photo and verse. I took it at the outlet mall in Old Branson. I’d walked probably a couple of miles and had …
Written in Secret (The Art of Love and Danger) by Crystal Caudill is this week’s Reader Friday post. Here are the first two lines: Lydia tucked her feet beneath the plush chair and adjusted the borrowed rubber coat tighter around her body as the booking clerk of the Oliver Street station house ogled her again. What had she been thinking …