First Line Friday {5}: Hooked in One Line!

Happy Friday, bookworms, and welcome to First Line Friday!

The rules are simple: grab the closest book to you (or one from your ever-growing TBR pile), flip to the first page, and share its opening sentence in the comments.

This fun weekly event is hosted by Reading is my Superpower: Link-Up—and a huge shoutout to One Book More where I first spotted it! The goal? Hook your fellow readers using only the book’s very first line before you reveal the title.

Want to play along? It’s incredibly easy:

Grab a book: Pick up your current read or a random choice from your shelves.
Share the line: Copy the first few sentences in the comments, but keep the title a secret at first to tease us!
The Reveal: Finally… let us know what book it is!

In the morning I got Chrissie to cut off all my hair.

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From the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, the inspiration for HBO’s True Blood, comes “a gripping, twisty-turny, thrill ride of a read” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) following a young gunslinging mercenary on deadly mission through the American Southwest.

In a fractured United States, a new world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards. Lizbeth Rose has a wildly fearsome reputation but these wizards are desperate. Searching the small border towns near Mexico, they’re trying to locate a low-level magic practitioner believed to be a direct descendant of Grigori Rasputin.

As the trio journey through an altered America—shattered into several countries after the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression—they’re set on by enemies. It’s clear that a powerful force does not want them to succeed in their mission. Lizbeth Rose has never failed a client, but this job may stretch her to her deadly limits.

“Immersive, involving, suspenseful and intriguing, with a main character you’ll love” (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author), An Easy Death is a fast-paced thriller of the highest order.