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:
“So tell me, Miss Jones, why should I employ you as governess?”
Do you recognize the lines?
Here’s a hint:
It’s written by Emily Windsor.
Still not sure? Here’s another hint:
It’s a new historical romance.
The First Lines Friday book is:
A Governess Should Never… Lure a Spy
Title: A Governess Should Never… Lure a Spy
Author: Emily Windsor
Series: The Governess Chronicles
Page Length: 300
Publication Date: April 11, 2024Synopsis: “So tell me, Miss Jones, why should I employ you as governess?”
A question to rouse fear within the breast of any prospective governess, unless…she wasn’t a governess at all.
Yet Amelia must gain this position by whatever means necessary, for this gentleman, dubbed The Scandalous Hugh Cadwalader by fashionable society, is not all he seems. Behind the elegant finery and azure eyes is a dangerous warrior of a man, a tenacious spy for the Crown.
One who might just have turned traitor…
“Just one more question, if I may…”
With her perfect references and perfect demureness, Miss Jones appears…perfect.
Feminine guidance and distraction are required for his inquisitive ward while Hugh Cadwalader is on the trail of a traitor in the alleys of London’s Rookery.
But can such perfection be all it seems? And was that a glimpse of golden fire within those amber eyes?
The Dangerous Spy and… The More Dangerous Governess.
One should never judge a governess by her perfectly forged references or a spy by his unblemished Hessian boots, for behind both facades lay passion untamed, subterfuge unbound and a quest for justice.
A battle of wits with only one winner… Love.
With theatres of glister and glamour, nights of shadow and menace, hairpins of poison, and being pressed to a desk by a shirtless masculine chest, the vocation of governess has never been so perilous…to the heart.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Review
Did you guess the first lines? What do you think of them? Comment below!!
Oooh, I’ve been waiting for more Emily Windsor! This sounds fun 😍
It was soooo good, Dini! I think you’ll really enjoy it!