First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
First Lines:
“Private libraries were extraordinary, Lady Elspeth DeMoray mused. To have an entire room filled with books – in one’s own house- seemed quite fantastical. If she had a library, she would never leave.”
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s a recently released historical romance!
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s written by Elizabeth Hoyt.
The First Lines Friday book is:
No Ordinary Duchess
Title: No Ordinary Duchess
Author: Elizabeth Hoyt
Series: Greycourt #3
Pub. Date: Dec. 10, 2024
Page Length: 352
Publisher: Forever
Synopsis: Julian Greycourt, the new Duke of Windermere, is called the Duke of Ice because of his complete, artic control. One glance from the duke’s icy blue eyes has been known to make men faint. Windemere is correct, dispassionate, and completely ruthless. There are rumors, though, about the scandalous demands he makes of his paramours in the bedroom.
Lady Elspeth de Moray, the thoughtful and shy youngest sister of the Duke of Ayr, only wants to end the warfare between her brother and Windermere. When Windermere suggests a truce bound by a marriage between the families, Ayr immediately turns him down. But Elspeth, knowing that this may be the only way to bridge peace between the families, secretly goes to Windermere and offers herself… as his bride.
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