First Line Friday

First Line Friday | Week 161 | The Words Between Us by Erin Bartels

It’s First Line Friday! That means it’s time to pick up the nearest book and quote the first line. Today I’m sharing from The Words Between Us by Erin Bartels, a book I recently picked up on sale. Here’s the first line from the Chapter One:

Most people only die once. But my father is not most people. He is a monster.

Can you see why I had to quote more than the first sentence? This one definitely got me hooked!

What’s the book nearest you, and what’s the first line?

 

About The Words Between Us

Robin Windsor has spent most of her life under an assumed name, running from her family’s ignominious past. She thought she’d finally found sanctuary in her rather unremarkable used bookstore just up the street from the marina in River City, Michigan. But the store is struggling and the past is hot on her heels.

When she receives an eerily familiar book in the mail on the morning of her father’s scheduled execution, Robin is thrown back to the long-lost summer she met Peter Flynt, the perfect boy who ruined everything. That book–a first edition Catcher in the Rye–is soon followed by the other books she shared with Peter nearly twenty years ago, with one arriving in the mail each day. But why would Peter be making contact after all these years? And why does she have a sinking feeling that she’s about to be exposed all over again?

You can find The Words Between Us online at:

Amazon | BookBub | ChristianBook | Goodreads | Koorong

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