Here’s to another First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. Today I’m featuring the first line from Jen Turano’s newly released historical rom-com, Storing Up Trouble, whose characters are wonderfully named – as always with a Turano novel – Miss Beatrix Waterbury and Mr Norman Nesbitt. That has me smiling already! It’s an opposite attracts romance with an impulsive suffragette and a serious man of science and order. No doubt together they will end up in some form of mischief, desired or not!
Enjoy the first line and be sure to enter the giveaway below…and don’t forget to share the first line of you most recent book in the comments!
First Line
That first line tells you plenty about the story to come and the lady herself, don’t you think?
The Book
After Miss Beatrix Waterbury suffers multiple mishaps due to her involvement with the suffrage movement, her mother decides a change of scenery is in order for her incorrigible daughter. Banished from New York, Beatrix is sent off for an extended stay with her Aunt Gladys in Chicago.
Mr. Norman Nesbit, a gentleman and a brilliant man of science devoted to his work, doesn’t have time to be distracted with members of the feminine set. When robbers descend on the train, intent on divesting him from his important research papers, Norman is thrust into Beatrix’s company when she has the audacity to interfere–leaving him no choice but to try to save her from herself.
When Beatrix’s life is put at stake after she takes employment as a salesgirl, she and Norman find themselves propelled into each other’s company again and again. With danger and intrigue dogging their every step, they become surprisingly drawn to each other–until information comes to light that threatens this relationship that’s barely had a chance to blossom.
Named One of the Funniest Voices in Inspirational Romance by Booklist, Jen Turano is a USA Today Best-Selling Author, known for penning quirky historical romances set in the Gilded Age. Her books have earned Publisher Weekly and Booklist starred reviews, top picks from Romantic Times, and praise from Library Journal. She’s been a finalist twice for the RT Reviewers’ Choice Awards and had two of her books listed in the top 100 romances of the past decade from Booklist. When she’s not writing, she spends her time outside of Denver, CO. She can be found on Facebook or visit her on the web at www.jenturano.com.
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May 15, 2020 at 11:43 pm
I have enjoyed and laughed out loud at every Jen Turano book I have read. I have only read 7….sorry….trying to fix that! 🙂
May 15, 2020 at 11:46 pm
It sounds like a fun story. Thanks for the chance.
May 15, 2020 at 11:47 pm
I don’t think I have read any.
May 16, 2020 at 12:29 am
I love the lively and interesting books Jen Turano writes! I think I’ve read three or four, maybe five.
May 16, 2020 at 12:40 am
Read Storing Up Trouble a week ago! So funny, one of my favorite authors.
My first lines are from The Lost Lieutenant by Erica Vetsch:
Seaton Estate Berkshire, England January 4, 1813
“You’ll do as you’re told if you know what’s good for you. I won’t be humiliated again.”
Just finished this phenomenal book!
May 16, 2020 at 12:43 am
This book sounds so good!! I’m dying to know how she ended up in jail twice!!
May 16, 2020 at 1:52 am
Happy Friday!
I’ve been hearing such amazing things about Storing Up Trouble, and I’m definitely going to have to try and read this one as soon as I have the chance.
On my blog this week, I’m sharing the first line from What If I Loved You by Mandi Blake:
“Liz stared at a loose thread on the arm of Mr. Garrison’s couch as the tears dried on her face.”
I hope you have a lovely weekend 🙂
May 16, 2020 at 2:24 am
This book sounds charming and fun! I read the first in the series, Flights of Fancy, and it was my favorite of Ms. Turano’s books yet. I can’t wait to see what Storing up Trouble is like!
May 16, 2020 at 2:24 am
I have loved all of Jens books!
May 16, 2020 at 2:24 am
To be BANNED from New York is no small feat. Can’t wait to learn how.
May 16, 2020 at 2:25 am
I have read four of Ms. Turano’s books–A Most Peculiar Circumstance, A Talent for Trouble, Playing the Part, and Flights of Fancy.
May 16, 2020 at 2:43 am
I’ve read probably about 5 or 6. I only discovered her probably about a year or 2 ago but I love her books!
May 16, 2020 at 2:48 am
This is such a fun story!!
May 16, 2020 at 4:22 am
I’ve read 8 of her books! I enjoy her books SO much!! I’m always impatient for her next ones to come out, but thankfully have the others to read still!
May 16, 2020 at 4:31 am
I have all of Jen’s books, except Storing Up Trouble. I can’t wait to get it in my hands! 😀
May 16, 2020 at 4:40 am
I’ve had my eye on this book, just haven’t gotten around to purchasing it yet. I love the cover. My current read is Meant for Her by Joy Avery Melville. I will share the first line from Chapter 3, which is where I’m at right now. “The scent of grassy hay, sweet feed, warm horse flesh, and leather tack calmed Candi when she stepped through the main door of the stable.” I wish you a wonderful weekend!
May 16, 2020 at 5:01 am
I love all Jen’s books! Can’t wait to read this one.
May 16, 2020 at 6:36 am
This sounds like such a funny book!
May 16, 2020 at 6:46 am
Wow—Beatrix did not learn her lesson the first time she landed herself in jail!?!? look forward to reading her story, and this book is definitely on my wishlist.
May 16, 2020 at 6:49 am
I’m currently reading Amish Reckoning by Jocelyn McClay. The first line is “Today was going to change his life.” Happy reading!
May 16, 2020 at 6:49 am
All of her full length novels!! Love her books!
May 16, 2020 at 7:04 am
I have had the pleasure of reading five of her books!
May 16, 2020 at 8:04 am
I’ve two of your books so far and loved them, I would love read this one also!!!
May 16, 2020 at 10:00 am
Happy Friday! 🙂
On my blog I’m sharing from Until the Mountains Fall by Connilyn Cossette. I’m currently on chapter 20, so I’ll share from there.
“My family and Hakim’s family, along with Baz and his wife and daughters, were gathered around the long table in the courtyard, oil lamps flickering joyfully along its length.”
Hope you have a great weekend filled with awesome reading time. 😀❤📚
May 16, 2020 at 10:04 am
Love Jen’s books! Happy Friday! My first line is from “More Than Friends” by Autumn Macarthur:
“Catriona Maclean returned the phone to its niche, slumped onto the worn oak bench in the entrance hall of the manse, and groaned out loud. She needed a man.”
May 16, 2020 at 11:17 am
I’ve only read one.
May 16, 2020 at 11:40 am
I’ve read all of Jen’s books but this one, and hopefully that will be soon!
May 16, 2020 at 2:50 pm
I’ve read all her books love her books hope to read this one very soon
May 16, 2020 at 9:46 pm
Jen is so fun – and funny! I’m hoping to read this one soon! My latest book’s first line is Becky Wade’s ‘Stay With Me’ (loved it! We need more Aussie heroes and heroines in fiction!) ‘Like Papa Bear in the Goldilocks story, Sam Turner had discovered a strange woman sleeping in the bed of a house he owned.’ 😍
May 16, 2020 at 10:36 pm
I haven’t read any of her books and I’m missing out on all the fun. Thanks for the chance to win a copy to start!
May 17, 2020 at 12:17 am
Although I haven’t read all of Jen’s books yet, I have loved every one that I have read and look forward to reading this one! Thank you for the opportunity🙂!
May 17, 2020 at 4:58 am
I want to read all of them, but so far I think I have read two of them. She is so funny!
May 17, 2020 at 8:57 am
I love how her books make me laugh. I’ve read four. Thank you for sharing. Blessings
May 17, 2020 at 11:31 am
I have been fortunate to have read 5 of Jen’s books so far. They are always entertaining. 🙂
May 18, 2020 at 4:48 am
I have read 12 of Jen’s books plus one book of a short story of hers.
May 18, 2020 at 4:52 am
“She could smell him, standing this close.” – Prologue
“Time had begun to loop in on itself.” – Chapter 1
Those are the first lines from the prologue and Chapter 1 of The Lost Diary of Venice by Margaux DeRoux. It’s very good and is two stories that follow each other, hundreds of years apart.
May 18, 2020 at 7:36 am
Sadly, I haven’t read any of Jen’s books.
May 18, 2020 at 8:27 am
Fourteen. I love her characters, and the humor! Can’t wait to read this one.
May 18, 2020 at 12:07 pm
I’ve only read the first two books in the American Heiresses series so far. I really love books, so once I finished this series, I plan to read her backlist – starting with the Apart from the Crowd series. 🙂
May 18, 2020 at 1:05 pm
I haven’t read anything by Jen yet. I need to change this 🙂
May 19, 2020 at 12:17 am
Every. Single. One.
May 19, 2020 at 3:38 pm
I have read two of Jen’s books and enjoyed them both!
May 19, 2020 at 8:56 pm
I have read eight so far. My favorite is In Good Company.
May 20, 2020 at 9:08 pm
I’ve read a few of her books but don’t keep track of them as i pass them on to family and friends.
May 22, 2020 at 3:14 am
I’ve read 6 or 7, but none recently.