Monday’s First Sentence ~ The Garden of Lost Secrets
Clara’s secret weighed heavy in the pocket of her pinafore apron, as her boots crunched down the gravel path to Gardener’s Cottage.
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Review for A Little Light Mischief
“They were holding hands, and the only reason they were doing it was that they both wanted to. They wanted to touch one another. There was no escaping from that basic fact: Alice wanted, and was wanted in return.”
Cover Reveal Time ~ Exordium by S.N. Jones
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ A Little Light Mischief
Alice had her eyes on that lady’s maid.
Most lady’s maids Alice had met were either French or at least pretended to be French; failing that, they were Englishwomen of the austere, rail-thin variety. Molly Wilkins was neither, and Alice didn’t know how she was supposed to concentrate on her sewing – or whatever it was she was meant to be doing – when there was an ample bosom or a pert backside within reach at all times.
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Review for The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics
“How much of your innocence can I ruin in the course of one evening?’
‘I’m already reasonably ruined.”
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ The Beautiful
New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead.
I remember the moment I first heard someone say this. The old man meant to frighten me. He said there was a time when coffins sprang from the ground following a heavy rain, the dead flooding the city streets. He claimed to know of a Créole woman on Rue Dauphine who could commune with spirits from the afterlife.