Super excited about today’s First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. I fell in love with Ronie Kendig’s storytelling from the first page of her first novel, Dead Reckoning, published ten years ago. In the decade since, Ronie has gone on to write more than 20 novels and each one is better than the last. I’m sharing the first line from Ronie’s soon to be released, Storm Rising, the first book in her new series, The Book of the Wars. Her leading man is none other than Leif Metcalfe, baby brother to Canyon Metcalfe who readers met in Ronie’s Christy Award Winning novel, Wolfsbane. Ronie pens military thrillers with guts, glory, heart, and soul – no one else can balance authentic action scenes with deep characterisation and excellent male POV, plus an organic love story that complements rather than dominates the thrilling suspense like she can. Storm Rising is no exception!
First Line
Ronie always begins with a killer first line 😉 Haha!!
The Book
Mentioned in the pages of the Septuagint but lost to history, the Book of the Wars has resurfaced, and its pages hold secrets–and dangers–never before seen on earth.
Tasked with capturing the ancient text, former Navy SEAL Leif Metcalfe is finally given command of his own team. But their best efforts are ruined when a notorious Bulgarian operative known as “Viorica” snatches the volume right out from under them.
Ronie Kendig is an award-winning, bestselling author of over twenty-five novels. She and her veteran husband live a short train ride from New York City with their children, Benning, the stealth puppy, and a retired military working dog, VVolt N629 (ret). Ronie’s degree in psychology has helped her pen novels of intense, raw characters.
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Buy at Amazon: Thirst of Steel or Koorong
June 14, 2019 at 6:36 am
I loved The King’s Mercy! Lori is a master at bringing her stories to life. I’m in awe of her ability to move the locations in this novel from place to place and make each setting thoroughly distinct. Fantastic story!!
June 14, 2019 at 11:56 pm
I’m reading “Danger on the Ranch” (Love Inspired) by Dana Mentink. The first line is: Storm’s coming. And boy is it ever. Really enjoying it.
June 15, 2019 at 12:20 am
Over on my blog, I’m sharing the first line from Ever Faithful by Karen Barnett. This wonderful story releases on June 18. It takes place in Yellowstone National Park in 1933. Swing on by and check out the first line!
June 15, 2019 at 4:42 am
I’ll be reading this one soon! It’ll be my first by the author, but I’ve heard a lot of great things so I’m quite excited to try her out 🙂
Today on my blog I shared the first line from The pink Bonnet by Liz Tolsma but I’m currently reading Britfield & the Lost Crown by C.R. Stewart so I’ll share the first line from my current chapter (13) here: “Thirty minutes later, Tom and Sarah enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate, along with a tray of desserts including Bakewell tarts, Eccles cakes, treacle pudding and crème brulee.” Sounds appetizing! Hope you have a great weekend! 🙂
June 15, 2019 at 8:53 am
I’ve only read two books by Ronie Kendig and that was a long time ago. I really need to catch up!!!
Today I’m sharing the first line from The King’s Mercy by Lori Benton: “Alex MacKinnon roused to the press of wood beneath his cheek and an ominous churning in his gut.”
https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2019/06/first-line-fridays-kings-mercy-by-lori.html
June 15, 2019 at 9:45 am
Ooooo! I was going to pass on this book for now because I’m a wimpy reader and sometimes Ronie’s books are a tad intense BUT I couldn’t stop myself!!! It’s in my tbr, I’m a book addict.
Happy readerly Friday! I’m reading a new book right now!
“Just let go. The breeze lifted Lane Kent’s auburn hair from the back of her neck.”
Living Lies by Natalie Walters
June 15, 2019 at 10:39 am
Happy Friday!
On my blog I shared the first couple of lines from one of my current reads The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson. It’s an upcoming release by a debut author, a fantasy full of magic and conflict between warring kingdoms. I hope you give it a read when it comes out next month.
Here, though, let me share the first few lines from my other current read, Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa.
“It was raining the day Suki came to the Palace of the Sun, and it was raining the night that she died.”
I hope you’re having a good Friday so far. Happy weekend and happy reading! 😀
June 15, 2019 at 10:39 am
Happy Friday! On my blog, I’m featuring A Chance at Forever by Melissa Jagears. Since it’s my current read, I will share the first line in Chapter Nine, which is where I left off: “You want me to cut all of this?” I hope your weekend is relaxing and thoroughly enjoyable!
June 15, 2019 at 12:27 pm
Happy Friday!
Storm Rising doesn’t fit in the genres that I like to read. However, the opening line does hook me as a reader. Once I conquer my TBR pile, I will have to read this one.
This week, I’m featuring Colleen Coble’s The Lightkeeper’s Bride on my blog. I’m also reading A Whisper of Peace by Kim Vogel Sawyer set in 1898 Alaska. I’m going to share the opening line: “Not once in all of her twenty-one years had Lizzie Dawson seen a moose behind her cabin.”
Hope you have a nice weekend 🙂
June 15, 2019 at 2:27 pm
Happy Friday! I’m sharing from Karen Barnett’s Ever Faithful on my blog today. Here is the first line from Chapter 2:
“What have you done now?” Nate kept his voice low as he tightened his fingers around his kid brother’s collar and glanced down the rain-darkened Brooklyn alley.”
Have a great weekend!
June 16, 2019 at 5:29 am
looking forward to reading Ronie’s book!
My first line is from The Number of Love by Roseanna White:
London, England 1917
The numbers marched across the page in a glory all their own.
Fabulous book as expected.
June 16, 2019 at 7:38 am
That’s a great first line! Maybe it’s time I read another Ronie Kendig and worked out what I’m missing.
I’m sharing from Purple Moon by Tessa Emily Hall on my blog today, and I’m currently between books and looking for inspiration here on First Line Friday. Have a great weekend of reading!
June 16, 2019 at 1:56 pm
I’m reading an ARC of “Cross My Heart” by Robin Lee Hatcher.
“Ben Henning showed his cousin Jessica into the kitchen of the old farmhouse.”
June 16, 2019 at 2:17 pm
“‘Hang on a little longer, my lamb,’ Mercy Wilkins shifted the listless infant in her arms without slowing her pace.”
A Reluctant Bride by Jody Hedlund
June 16, 2019 at 4:08 pm
I am reading Guarding the Amish Midwife by Dana R. Lynn. The first line is”Wait here.”
June 20, 2019 at 2:09 pm
I’m reading SEABISCUIT An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
In 1938, near the end of a decade of monumental turmoil, the year’s number-one newsmaker was not Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hitler or Mussoloni.