Monday, December 14, 2020

First Chapter, First Paragraph, Tuesday Intros/Teaser Tuesdays - December 14th



It's Tuesday!  It's time to share your excerpts and teasers from books we are currently reading, have read or are planning to read.  So, feel free to join us by sharing the first paragraph or (a few) of a book you are reading or thinking about reading soon.  This meme is guaranteed to increase your TBR :)



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I, also, participate and link up to Teaser Tuesdays.  Here's info about that meme:

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, now being hosted by Ambrosia at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:


* Grab your current read

* Open to a random page

* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!



I just started reading this one.  These excerpts are from the E-ARC from NetGalley.







First Chapter... 

Alaska
Midnight Sun Fishing Camp
Katchabiggie Lodge
Eight years ago January.
Five and a half hours a day when the sun rose above the horizon.
Storm clouds so thick, daylight never penetrated, and night reigned eternal.
Thirty below zero Fahrenheit.

The hurricane-force winds wrapped frigid temperatures around the lodge, driving through the log cabin construction and the steel roof, ignoring the insulation, creeping inch by inch into the great room where twenty-year-old Petie huddled on a love seat, dressed in a former guest's flannel pajamas and bundled in a Pendleton Northern Lights wood blanket.

Teaser...

For a second long, dark winter, she was the only living being tending the Midnight Sun cabins and the lodge, making sure the dark, relentless Alaska winter didn't do too much damage and in the spring the camp could open to enthusiastic fishermen, corporate team builders and rugged individualists.


Synopsis from Goodreads:

WRONG JOB

Eighteen-year-old Evelyn Jones lands a job in small-town Alaska, working for a man in his isolated mountain home. But her bright hopes for the future are shattered when Donald White disappears, leaving her to face charges of theft, embezzlement—and a brutal double murder. Her protestations of innocence count for nothing. Convicted, she faces life in prison…until fate sends her on the run.

WRONG NAME

Evelyn’s escape leaves her scarred and in hiding, isolated from her family, working under an alias at a wilderness camp. Bent on vengeance, intent on recovering her life, she bides her time, patiently searching for the man who took everything from her.

WRONG ALIBI

At last, the day comes. Donald White has returned. Evelyn emerges from hiding; the fugitive becomes the hunter. But in her mind, she hears the whisper of other forces at work. Now Evelyn must untangle the threads of evidence before she’s once again found with blood on her hands: the blood of her own family…




What do you think? Would you keep reading?








6 comments:

  1. Sounds very good! Thanks for sharing, and enjoy.

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  2. I feel like I read Dodd years and years ago but really need to pick up one of her newer books. This looks interesting!

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  3. This sounds really good. One of my other reviewers read it and we'll be publishing her review later this week.

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  4. I like the setting and sound of this one. Thanks for sharing, hadn't heard of it.

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  5. I like the first chapter and teaser.

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