#FridayBookShare ~ an excellent idea created by Shelley Wilson.
With the weekend approaching it’s the perfect time to seek out new books to read, so Shelley created a Friday Book Share game to help search for that ideal read.
Anyone can join in. Just answer the following F.R.I.D.A.Y. questions based on the book you’re either currently reading or have just finished reading. Use the hashtag #FridayBookShare and remember to tag Shelley (@ShelleyWilson72)
First line of the book.
Recruit fans by adding the book blurb.
Introduce the main character using only three words.
Delightful design (add the cover image of the book).
Audience appeal (who would enjoy reading this book?)
Your favourite line/scene
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First line of the book.
Lloyd Carter cried out, sending a startled white-tailed doe wheeling off through the dark woods.
Recruit fans by adding the book blurb.
On a bitter cold January night in 1965, death came calling at an isolated little cabin on Wake-Robin Ridge. Now, nearly 50 years later, librarian Sarah Gray has quit her job and moved into the same cabin, hoping the peace and quiet of her woodland retreat will allow her to concentrate on writing her first novel. Instead she finds herself distracted by her only neighbor, the enigmatic and reclusive MacKenzie Cole, who lives on top of the mountain with his Irish wolfhound as his sole companion.
As their tentative friendship grows, Sarah learns the truth about the heartbreaking secret causing Mac to hide from the world. But before the two can sort out their feelings for each other, they find themselves plunged into a night of terror neither could have anticipated. Now they must unravel the horrifying events of a murder committed decades earlier. In doing so, they discover that the only thing stronger than a hatred that will not die is a heart willing to sacrifice everything for another.
A story of evil trumped by the power of love and redemption, Wake-Robin Ridge will transport you to the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and introduce you to characters you won’t soon forget.
Introduce the main character using only three words.
Genuine, likeable, compassionate.
Delightful design (add the cover image of the book).
Audience appeal (who would enjoy reading this book?)
Anyone who likes their romance with a bit extra – a touch of the supernatural, two stories woven together and a beautiful setting.
Your favourite line/scene
In her deepest heart, down in the part Lloyd hadn’t belittled and demeaned and beaten to death over time, Ruthie had cherished the memory of that trip, and had clung to the idea that someday she would find a way to live in those hills. Providence had put the means right in her hands. When she finished packing up the Impala, she stashed her suitcase full of money in the trunk, and headed north, towards the Blue Ridge Mountains. She never even noticed the dirty gray car that pulled away from the curb two blocks behind her.
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Here are the book links if you’d like to investigate further ~ Amazon UK | US
Fabulous choice for the Friday Book Share, Cathy. I love the sound of this book – you had me at touch of supernatural! 🙂
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Thanks, Shelley 🙂
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Thank you so much for featuring (and READING, yay!) Wake-Robin Ridge today, Cathy. I’m tickled to death! It was my very first book, and I still love every character in the story, though they have grown and changed, and become so much more in the last three years. Hope you enjoy it!! 🙂
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Thanks, Marcia. I’m loving it! 🙂
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“…the dirty gray car…” grabs my FULL attention. Gives me goosebumps! 😀
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Thanks, Tess. That dirty gray car is the start of a lot of trouble for Ruthie Carter, for sure. 😉
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There’s plenty of those 😉
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Goosebumps are a favorite of mine. 😀 I just finished the third book in this series, Harbinger, and I think it has a lot of them, too. After all, a book about the Appalachian/Celtic legend of the Black Dog as a harbinger of death simply must have a fairly high Goosebump Factor, right? 😀
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Right! I have the next two books ready and waiting. Hope it’s not too long before I can get to them 🙂
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Can’t wait to see what you think, Cathy. I’m starting work on my 3rd Riverbend novel next week, but the last nine months have had me (mentally) back in those mountains I love so much, and I hope you’ll enjoy every minute of the time YOU spend there, too. THANKS for reading, and sharing. 🙂
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You make me want to visit, it sounds an absolutely beautiful place 🙂
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They are unbelievably beautiful. The Appalachian chain is the oldest mountain chain on the planet, and that accounts for the way the rounded hills roll on and on. Between the ferns, wake-robins, and waterfalls, and the smoky blue mist that hangs over the cliffs and peaks, it takes your breath away. There’s a sense of something primeval about it all, and there’s nowhere else I’ve ever been that feels quite the same way.
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Another thing to add to my bucket list…
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Have just reviewed Marcia Meara’s latest book: Harbinger: Wake-Robin Ridge Book 3: http://bit.ly/28TY05j and loved it. as I enjoyed her previous books. Marcia’s writing is so evocative, and her descriptions give such a sense of place I just wanted to be there. #FridayBookShare – a great idea
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That’s what I get from Marcia’s books too. Looking forward to the rest of the books.
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Thank you, Judith. I “cut my teeth” reading Daphne du Maurier, and I think that’s where I get my love of descriptive writing. I clearly remember reading Rebecca at age 12, and I could smell the salt of the sea at the foot of the cliff, and see the towering rhododendrons along the drive to Manderley. Everything about that book was magical, and I’ve never forgotten it. I’m so glad my love of the North Carolina mountains shows in my own books! (Hopefully, my love of the rivers of central Florida shows in my Riverbend books, too. I want readers to feel the canoe rocking beneath them as they glide past the egrets . . . and alligators . . . along the shore.) 🙂
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Cathy, I hope you’ll continue to enjoy my books for as long as I can keep writing them. I intend to keep doing so until I fall face down on the keyboard! 😀 ❤
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Reblogged this on The Write Stuff and commented:
And adding to my lovely day, my first book, Wake-Robin Ridge, was a #FridayBookShare on #BetweentheLines! Thank you so much, Cathy. I’m so pleased you enjoyed it!
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Thanks for the reblog, Marcia 🙂
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❤ 🙂 ❤
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On top of my threatening to topple down TBR list! It sounds my alley of favorites. Congratulations, Marcia and Cathy for a lovely post!
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Thank you 🙂
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I know exactly how you feel, Carmen. I have a huge, long shelf filled with TBRs, and a virtual shelf on my Kindle filled with hundreds more. Even the Must Read VERY Soon folder is overflowing! Gleep. Someday, right???? 😀 ❤
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Your Friday Book Share got my attention. Sounds like a great read. Have a wonderful weekend, Cathy.
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It’s really good 🙂 You have a great weekend too, Michelle.
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