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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. To play along, just do the following:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
- Be careful not to include spoilers!
- Share the title and author, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!
Suffer? The word circled like a vulture, ready to swoop and stab the barely healed scars left behind by her father. "The only thing my father suffered from was too much drink and a lying tongue. I abhor both!"
~The Innkeeper's Daughter by Michelle Griep, page 66
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First Chapter/First Paragraph/Tuesday Intros is a weekly link-up hosted by I'd Rather Be At The Beach. To participate, share the first paragraph (or two) of a book you're reading, or thinking about reading.
Dover, England, 1808
Dover, England, 1808
Numbers would be the death of Johanna Langley.
Three hours of sleep after a night of endless--or more like hopeless--bookkeeping. Two days to pay the miller before he cut off their flour supply. And only one week remained until the Blue Hedge Inn would be forced to close its doors forever.
Numbers, indeed. Horrid little things.
A frown etched deep into Johanna's face as she descended the last stair into the taproom. Stifling a yawn, she scanned the inn's public room, counting on collaring their lone boarder, Lucius Nutbrown. His payment would at least stave off the miller. Six empty tables and twelve unoccupied benches stared back. Must all the odds be stacked against her?
Here's the blurb:
Threats from abroad mean nothing when there's danger at home.
Officer Alexander Moore goes undercover as a gentleman gambler to expose a high-stakes plot against the British crown in 1808 - and he's a master of disguise, for Johanna Langley believes him to be quite the rogue . . . until she can no longer fight against his unrelenting charm.
All Johanna wants is to keep the family inn afloat, but when the rent and the hearth payment are due at the same time, where will she find the extra funds? If she doesn't come up with the money, there will be nowhere to go other than the workhouse - where she'll be separated from her ailing mother and ten-year-old brother.
Alex desperately wants to help Johanna, especially when she confides in him, but his mission - finding and bringing to justice a traitor to the crown - must come first, or they could all end up dead.
It'a race against time for them both.
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Sounds sooo good! Thanks for sharing...and for visiting my blog.
ReplyDeleteThose kind of numbers would get to anyone, but they don't tell me why anyone thought her father suffered.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good plot with interesting characters. I'd read this one.
ReplyDeleteMy Tuesday post features a daughter, too: The Butterfly’s Daughter.
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ReplyDeleteI need to return to this genre. Sounds very good!
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