It’s First Line Friday, which means it’s time to open the book nearest you and share the first line. Today I’m sharing from All is Bright by Australian author Andrea Grigg:
I know most of my #FirstLineFriday friends are choosing Christmas novels or novellas this week. Mine is also a Christmas novella, but it’s set in Australia, which means it’s the kind of Christmas I know and love: a summer Christmas. Sun, sand, beaches and barbecues.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
About All Is Bright
A widower for five years, Josh McMillan is ready to love again, but he never expected to fall so fast for his sister-in-law, Amy Kirkwood. Then Josh receives a letter that rocks his world, and he knows he must show the letter to Amy, even though it may shatter their growing relationship.
Is their love strong enough to weather the storm unleashed from the secrets in their past?
A contemporary Christian romance novella, a spin-off story from ‘A Simple Mistake’.
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I think I read this one last year in the Aussie Summer Christmas collection.
On my blog, I’m featuring the first line from a fun Christmas read called ‘Tinsel in a Tangle’ by Laurie Germaine, but here, I’m going to share the first line from another Christmas book I recently finished, this one by Chautona Havig, called ‘Carol and the Belles’:
“I’ll never get off this plane.”
Merry Christmas!
Yes, All is Bright was part of the Aussie Summer Christmas collection.
Both those Christmas stories sound fun. Merry Christmas!
I read that story a while back. As I recall, it was a sweet story. And I love the first line!
My first line comes from Deborah Raney’s Circle of Blessings:
Dakota Territory, 1864
It was almost closing time, and in all of his seventeen years, James Collingwood could not remember being so bone-weary as he felt tonight.
Merry Christmas!
Poor James! I can feel for him 🙂
Merry Christmas!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
“Good morning, Kansas!” The radio scratched out static over deejay Kris Kristiansen’s lilting baritone. – Silver Bells by Deborah Raney
Love it!
Merry Christmas to you too 🙂
I shared from Stephanie Barron’s Jane And The Twelve Days of Christmas on my blog. Here I’ll share from one of my all time favorite Christmas books, Remembering Christmas from Dan Walsh. “It wasn’t there anymore.”
A very happy and sunny and warm Christmas to you and your family! Here in the Sunny South (USA) you never know what to expect at Christmas. We’ve had snow and we have had to turn on the AC. This year’s forecast is for 50s (F) as the highs.
We’re hoping for a warmer Christmas than 50 deg F, but we’ll be in “windy Wellington”, so anything could happen 🙂
I like the sound of Remembering Christmas. I’ll check it out.
Thanks for stopping by. Merry Christmas!
Oh, makes me think she’s about to not be such a good girl 🙂
Next up on my TBR…
The music seeped into her soul like fog over the Thames. (from A Song Unheard by Roseanna M. White)
Merry Christmas!
She is, but she isn’t. You’ll have to read it to find out!
I loved A Song Unheard – it’s set in Aberystwyth and London, two British cities close to my heart.
Merry Christmas 🙂
What is she up to? Great first line. The book I’m featuring on my blog today is A Match of Sorts by Lucette Nel. Merry Christmas!
Thank you! Merry Christmas to you as well.
Interesting book. I will have to check it out!
Merry Christmas!
Today on my blog I am featuring Desert Duet by Debra Marvin. I’m just beginning chapter 3, so I will leave the first line from that chapter.
“The new gray fedora, with its crisp, black grosgrain band, would be a stylish, but dismal failure at preventing sunburn.”
I’m really enjoying this story! Happy Friday. 😊
Sunburn … that’s something we have to watch out for at Christmas 🙂
Merry Christmas!
It is so different to think of a summery Christmas ~ You must think the same of us U.S. folks, experiencing a wintery Christmas! 🙂 This novella sounds really interesting.
Over on my blog, I’m featuring Monster by Frank Peretti, but over here, I’ll share the first line of another on my TBR pile, The Cottage by Michael Phillips: “The letter two weeks before had been brief. Less than half a page. Yet in an instant it had turned her life upside down.”
Merry Christmas, Iola ~ May God grant you many reminders of His presence and His unfailing love in Jesus Christ!
I lived in London for ten years, so we had ten years of winter Christmases. There are certain aspects of Christmas that make more sense when it’s dark and cold, like mulled wine and Christmas lights. The holiday season also breaks up the bleak winter months. But I still love my summer Christmases!
Merry Christmas, Alicia. May God bless you and keep you and your family through this Christmas season.
Nice change from many Christmas novellas.
I thought so 🙂
Merry Christmas!
This looks like a wonderful book, and I could visit the beach any time of the year. 🙂 I had no idea it got so warm in Australia…Katie told me that it was 104 degrees (Fahrenheit) in Australia! Does it get that warm in New Zealand? Merry Christmas!
I live a short drive from the beach. I don’t swim all year round (although I know of people who do), but I certainly visit all year around. A couple of my favourite cafes overlook the beach.
It’s not as hot in New Zealand as Australia – I like to think that makes it more livable :). It might get up to 100 degrees F here, but mostly summer is in the 80’s or 90’s where I live. It gets hotter (and colder) in other parts of the country.
Merry Christmas!
Yikes, that sounds like a big cluster of a mess.
Merry Christmas!