Five-Line Friday
Where authors and readers meet to share and read romance novel snippets!
Five-Line Friday
Five-Line Friday RULES
- Fivelines of your current work in progress, new release, soon-to-be-released … whatever. (Do keep it as close to five sentences as you can.
- You are welcome to post buy links too.
- PG (I don’t have a warning on my blog about content, so it has to be appropriate for all viewers. I will delete comments that aren’t appropriate or offensive to some audiences. Sorry.)
My snippet this week is from Wagers Gone Awry (Conundrums of the Misses Culpepper)
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She hadn’t been self-conscious of her attire or the blatant sparseness of her home before, but somehow, he made their lack of prosperity glaring. Rather like a purebred Arabian thrust into the midst of donkeys. Pretty donkeys, yes, but compared to a beautiful stepper, wholly lacking.
Freddy crept forward and dared to sniff around his lordship’s feet. Then, to Brooke’s horror, the dog proceeded to heist his leg on one glossy boot.
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I confess, I picked my snippet this week after coming home from a walk and discovering both my male dachsies had decided to anoint my new wood floors by heisting their legs on the furniture corners. They are currently secured in a gated area we affectionately have dubbed, Puppy Prison.
Last week was a busy one for Five-Line Friday! Thanks so much for all your participation.
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Thank you Collette for the opportunity to show off my work. Today’s lines come from my latest release, A Knight To Call My Own, a medieval romance.
“I will tell you who I am, lass. I am the man you will forever bow down to and call husband come the end of these games,” he roared ferociously, like a wounded animal.
“I will neither bow down to you, nor any other man, you worthless cur,” she shouted right back at him.
Ian grabbed her arms, giving her a shake ’til she felt her teeth rattle. “You will submit to me, you stubborn woman. Do you not even realize when you have met your match?”
She lifted her head at him with narrowed eyes. “Aye, as a matter of fact, I do, for he just left with my brother!”
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Oh boy!!!
Yeah, that’s telling him! Nice bit of lively, emo dialog. Thanks, Sherry.
Thank you Collette and Mary Anne. I had all kinds of fun turning Lynet and Ian’s lives upside down!
From A Baron for Becky, a moment that is a plot pivot point.
He sat up then, propping himself against some of the pillows that littered the bed. His eyes were still dancing, but he composed the rest of his face.
“Very well, my dear. What is it? Have you run through your allowance? Do you want to break our contract and run off with the Prince of Wales? Are you about to confess to being a spy for Napoleon?”
“I am with child.” There. It was said.
His eyes went still and wide.
“With child,” he repeated.
Released on Wednesday. Pause for panicked running around in circles. http://judeknightauthor.com/books/a-baron-for-becky/
Ha!! Congrats on the new release!
Thanks, Jude. Very dramatic passage. Brief but hints at a lot.
Good luck with your new release. And hang in there!
Five lines from Breakwater Beach, Book One in the Unfinished Business Series, newly contracted with Soulmate and due out in late 2015 or early 2016. Subscribe to my newsletter for advance content. http://bitly.com/1D0cgpm
Antiques were often charged with the energies of their owners—good and bad.
And this one emanated a confusing mélange of bittersweet relief that it had been retrieved and deep melancholy that spritzed shocks of static electricity with every tap of the metal stirrups against her legs. Would anyone care that she’d found a beloved artifact, a vestige of a life and a longer story?
Thank you, Carole. Intriguing passage. Leaves me wanting more. Good luck!
Carol, that’s such a gripping tidbit!
Thanks!. I’m so excited about the new contract.
Thank you, Collette. I propose we call this week’s Five-Line Friday the “In the Doghouse Edition”.
Poor Freddie! And poor Brooke! I can imagine how she must feel. Well, come to think of it I can’t. No pet of mine has ever done his business on the foot of a lord I’m trying to impress!
Anyhow, here’s my excerpt, again from my work in progress, “The Weeping Dragon”.
The sorcerer scoffed as he brushed aside Joan’s jewels. “Magic such as mine cannot be bought for a handful of trinkets!”
She bit her lip; “But what if I throw in another jewel, one more valuable and rarer than any you’re likely to come across?”
“And just what can a powerless lady like you offer me?”
She paused; “My virginity.”
As always, feedback is welcome.
Good luck, Collette. Especially with those careless dachshunds!
I wrote that scene after one of my dogs pooped on my son’s girlfriend’s foot.
Art imitates life!
From False Impressions:
The singing stopped and a man emerged from around the corner. He paused midstride and stared. Mr. Tucker was not the bald, over-weight, wrinkled man she’d expected. It had been years since she felt any type of attraction toward a man. And this one, with dark coffee eyes and Patrick Dempsey dimples covered in a light scruff, did unfamiliar and unwanted things to her body.
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Oooh, coffee eyes!!
I don’t drink coffee but I love the color and smell 🙂 And the eyes on a handsome man!
My hubby has ”chocolate” eyes!
From my upcoming release, Renovation: A Golden Beach Novel. Available this November.
He really was beautiful, in a rakish, kind of piratey way. Valerie sipped her second cosmopolitan and watched Donovan scan the room. His moss green eyes locked on hers causing her to flinch in embarrassment at being caught.
“See something you like?” He cocked one eyebrow and flashed his smirk again.
She bit her lip, considering. “Yes.”
Read the first book in the Golden Beach series, Restoration
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Lovely snippet!! Love that line, “rakish, kind of piratey way.”
Thanks Collette. This is from my new release, AT THE EARL’S CONVENIENCE
“Does your throat hurt?” she asked, ignoring his bad temper.
“A little,” he said gruffly.
“My mother had a good remedy for sore throats,” Selina said briskly. “Mrs. Lark, Cook is to steep horseradish in a gill of vinegar and add a gill of honey. I’ll have his lordship take a teaspoon every twenty minutes.”
“Are you trying to poison me, madam?”
http://www.amazon.com/At-Earls-Convenience-MAGGI-ANDERSEN-ebook/dp/B012TA2AGA/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
I love the cover of your new book, Maggi! And that tonic!
Hi Colette
This is such a great idea! Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share my work!
Here are a few lines from episode 2 of my debut serial romantic suspense, Lethal in Love.
Episode 1 is free on all platforms at the moment:
A blush stained her cheeks and he knew what she was thinking. It was the very same thing his own body felt as he stepped closer.
His heart pounded. ‘What are we, Jayda, if we’re not friends?’
Heat radiated from her lips, they were so close. He allowed his palm to scale her arm, running up and over her shoulder to her neck, where his thumb rested on her carotid, measuring the racing gallop of her blood.
‘Let go, Jayda. Your rules don’t take into account this thing between us. I felt it the very first moment I saw you, and I know you felt it, too.’
The moment froze, expanding like the silken filament of a spider’s web unfettered in the pull of the breeze. Her eyes never left his as she dragged in a lungful of air.
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Website: http://www.michelle-somers.com/
Michelle, that last line…wow!! Totally hooked.
Thanks Collette!
From “The Only One” Book 3 of The One and Only Series to be released September 1
Unconscionable, one so young should kiss with such skill. Had the damned girl been coached? She should slap him, call him a knave. Push him away, scream at him. Instead, she twined her arms about his neck while her warm seeking tongue pirouetted a mating dance with his.
His chest heaving, he grabbed her shoulders and thrust her away.
“Where the hell did you learn to kiss like that?”
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Thanks Collette