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First Line Friday: Carolina Breeze

Happy Friday Everyone :)

I hope you're all having a great week!

Mine has actually been pretty good. We've had some really nice days, and my husband and I were finally able to put our garden in, and various flowers and the like. We've also had a couple of lovely, rainy days as well, and I love how green everything is looking in our yard right now.

For today's post, I'm excited to once again be linking up with the lovely Hoarding Books for another edition of First Line Friday.

This fun weekly meme simply consists of sharing the first line of the book you're currently reading.

For this week's first line, I'm going to be sharing from Denise Hunter's recently released title that I ended up absolutely loving.

Carolina Breeze by Denise Hunter:



About The Book:

A jilted bride. A struggling innkeeper. And a romantic mountain getaway that changes everything.

Rising Hollywood star Mia Emerson is looking for a safe place to land in the wake of a public breakup and scandal, and she finds it in the lake town of Bluebell, North Carolina—the location of her canceled honeymoon. She wants nothing more than to hide and wait for the tabloids to die down.

Soon after her arrival at the Bluebell Inn, Mia meets Levi Bennett, who runs the inn along with his two younger sisters. Drawn to one another from the start, Mia trusts Levi to keep her location from the press, and Levi confides in Mia about the financial state of the inn—a secret he’s been keeping from his sisters.

When Mia and Levi discover an old journal that hints at a rare diamond necklace hidden in the inn, they set off on a treasure hunt to find the long-lost heirloom. What they don’t expect to surface are feelings they thought were safely locked away. Mia and Levi must decide if falling in love again is too big a risk—or if it will uncover a treasure of its own instead.

This Bluebell Inn romance takes us to a quiet North Carolina retreat that holds more secrets than it shares.




My Thoughts:

Denise Hunter is one of my all time favorite authors, and I've been looking forward to reading Levi's story ever since I finished Lake Season. I truly adored Carolina Breeze, and I loved that once again, it has a touch of history of the inn woven into the rest of the story. I really adored Mia's character, and I was pleasantly surprised that this was a "famous person falling for the regular person" story as that is always one of my favorite book tropes. I can't recommend this one enough, and it's definitely a new favorite. You can check out my full review here.



First Line:

"Before she even opened her eyes Mia Emerson knew it was going to be the worst day of her life."



What book are you currently reading? Be sure and leave the first line in the comments below, and then hop on over to Hoarding Books to see who else is participating this week.


Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a lovely weekend. Happy Reading :)


Comments

  1. Wow! What a way to wake up! lol I hope you can stop by:

    https://collettaskitchensink.blogspot.com/2020/05/first-lines-friday-56-and-bbh-52220.html

    Colletta

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    1. Happy Friday!

      I'll be sure and stop by yours this afternoon as well :)

      Have a great weekend!

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  2. Over on my blog I'm featuring Pretending to Wed by Melissa Jagears. Here I'll share the first line from chapter six of the same book.
    "Setting buckets under the well pump, Nolan started to fill them and squinted at the wagon coming down the road."

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    1. Happy Friday!

      I'm definitely going to have to read this one as I loved both the line you shared on your blog, and the line you just shared now.

      Have a great weekend :)

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  3. My first line is from the suspense novel by Patricia Bradley, STANDOFF.
    What had he gotten himself into?

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    1. Happy Friday!

      Wow! That's a great first line and definitely has me intrigued.

      I hope you have a great rest of your weekend :)

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  4. Happy Friday! My first line is from "Grand Encounters" by Jen Turano:

    "I know you mentioned you've sworn off gentlemen forever, but Mr. Tall, Dark, and - need I say - Delicious is here again, and, unsurprisingly, he's sitting in your section."

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    1. Happy Friday!

      Lol I love this! What a fantastic first line.

      Thanks so much for sharing, and I hope you have a great rest of your weekend :)

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  5. This is such a good book. I hope you enjoy it!

    Happy Friday!
    On my blog I'm sharing the first lines from The Socialite by J'nell Ciesielski. I'm currently on chapter 14, so I'll share from there.
    "Kat tipped the glass of wine to her mouth, but didn’t part her lips. She hated reds, especially dry ones, and they gave her a splitting headache."
    I hope you have a great weekend filled with awesome reading time! 😀❤📚

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    1. Happy Saturday!

      I loved Carolina Breeze and I'm glad to hear that you did too!

      I hope you end up really enjoying The Socialite, and that you have a great rest of your weekend :)

      Thanks so much for stopping by!

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  6. Happy Friday!
    I've seen this one a lot on my feed! Looks good!

    On my blog my first line is from The Memory House by Rachel Hauck" She was never afraid of the dark."

    Hope you have an awesome weekend!

    https://www.musingsofasassybookishmama.com/2020/05/first-line-fridays-memory-house.html

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    1. Happy Friday!

      Rachel Hauck is such an amazing storyteller, and I actually haven't read this one yet so I'll have to do that soon.

      I hope you have a lovely weekend :)

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  7. Today, I'm sharing the first line from Formula for a Perfect Life by Christy Hayes: "Kayla Cummings stared at the two lines so long her vision blurred." Have a good rest of the weekend!

    https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2020/05/first-line-fridays-formula-for-perfect.html

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    1. Happy Monday!

      I hope had a great weekend :)

      That's definitely an intriguing first line, and a great set up for the rest of the story.

      Thanks for sharing!

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