Five-Line Friday
Where authors and readers meet to share and read romance novel snippets!
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Five-Line Friday RULES
- Five lines 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.)
Let’s try to post snippets about miffed heroines today. Naturally, you are free to post something else as well.
Five-Line Friday Wagers Gone Awry on sale-99¢
My snippet is from Wagers Gone Awry (Conundrums of the Misses Culpepper, Book 1) again this week!
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Emotions flitted across her features so quickly, he was hard-pressed to identify all of them. Her chest rose as she inhaled a large expanse of air, scorn sparking in her eyes.
“That’s it, you cocksure toff. Take your confounded wager and…and stuff it up your stiff arse! I’ll find another way to save my home.” Brooke hoisted her skirts and spun on her heel toward the house.
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There you are! I’m so looking forward to your lines this week!
Hi, Collette. Whoa, Brooke is feisty! Here’s my miffed heroine from To Kiss a Rake:
“Does one usually have one’s prospective bride knocked on the head?” Melinda retorted and clutched her temples again.
“That was an accident. A metal bracket fell and hit you,” the nauseatingly placid coachman said. “If you would sit still and calm yourself, your head might hurt less.”
“If you hadn’t abducted me, my head wouldn’t hurt at all!”
http://www.amazon.com/Kiss-Rake-Scandalous-Kisses-ebook/dp/B00ZAY07OK/
She can be, but that’s what happens when you have to take on the responsibility of 4 other girls and a farm.
So much fun! Here’s a snippet from my mischievous romantic comedy THE VIRGIN HUNTRESS (The Devil DeVere #2):
“Put me down!” Vesta wailed. “You have no right to manhandle me like this.”
“On the contrary, as your betrothed husband, I now have every right.”
“You are not my betrothed!” Her kicks met air, and her fists flailed with futility. Hew entered the stateroom and kicked the door closed. He waited only for the click of the lock before striding in his uneven gait to the bed. He sat hard and pulled Vesta from his shoulder only to throw her over his lap. “What do you think you are doing!” she screeched.
“What your father should have done years ago, for it’s bloody well past time you paid the piper.”
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EXVX3NS
I so want to read this, Victoria!!!
Hi Collette! Great lines! Here’s a sample from Tempting the Pirate.
“Whose cabin is this?”
“Mine.”
Charity turned to face James in time to see him lock the door. She stiffened, her back as straight as Miss Biddle’s cane. Maybe this man wasn’t so different from Captain Shevington, the pig who’d cornered her in the parlor with the intent of forcing himself on her.
To find out more about this book and where it’s offered, head on over to my website: http://tamarahughes.com/books/
Love this snippit, Tamara!!
Hi Collette, I’ve enjoyed reading everyone’s lines. Here are mine from Stealing Her Heart”
She slammed an open palm against his chest. His silver blue eyes grew intense as she stared into them. “Kindly take note of this, ya are not the boss of me, ya Irish brute. I am and ye’ll be nice or else.”
“So, I finally meet the real Margaret Hennessey.”
You can read a great story about a male romance writer in 1856, offered on Amazon: http://amzn.com/B010PCJIEG
Good for her!!!
Thanks, Collette! Miffed heroine Mandi from my contemporary romance Something Good, which is a 2015 RONE finalist:
Lane took a deep breath and tried to get his emotions under control. “Mandi, look, we need to talk about this–”
“No. Actually, we don’t,” she said flatly. “I see what you’re thinking. It’s real nice, too. You think I’m trying to trap you the way I did Aaron, or that I’m a two-timing whore. I can see it in your eyes. You don’t trust me. Because to you, I’m still trailer trash.”
http://www.amazon.com/Something-Good-Darlene-Deluca-ebook/dp/B00J8UN1GI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1438954542&sr=1-1&keywords=darlene+deluca
I’d love to know what he says next!!
Yeah, so would I! Thanks, Darlene.
I love that, Collette! Barbara, your heroine has every justification for clocking the man with his own bracket! Tamara, you intrigue me. Here are Rick and Mary from my novella for the Bluestocking Belles’ Christmas anthology, Marriage, Mistletoe, and Mayhem.
Rick broke the silence. “May I inquire about your intended direction, Mary?”
She frowned at him, then looked pointedly away. “Am I in another bumble-broth from which you must rescue me, you mean.” .
He smiled back. “Are you? I would be happy to be of service, you know.”
“I am no longer nine, thank you, Lieutenant Redepenning.” Her voice dripped ice. “I would not at all wish to further inconvenience you.”
Miss Mary was in a taking. What had he done to offend her? Rick made a cast at a venture. “I called on you in London. Did you know?”
http://bluestockingbelles.com/projects/box-sets/
Thanks, Jude. Nice bit of dialog. Plenty of implied drama beneath this polite conversation!
Oh, there are some sparks there, Jude!
Thanks, Collette. Nice emo snippet. This chick means business!
Here’s an excerpt from my WIP “The Weeping Dragon”. As always, feedback is welcome.
“Father, one of the maids told me you were going to whip Joan.”
He took a swig of ale. “I already have.”
Dorrit winced; “No!”
“Your cousin got off lightly. Anyone else who tries to kill you would be put to my sword.”
“But she didn’t harm me!”
“You think I should reward her for failing?”
“But it was just a moment of madness!”
“That’s all it takes.”
Have a great weekend, everyone!
He he!
She sounds like just my kind of heroine!