First Line Friday #43-To Marry An Earl

Happy Friday, my bookish friends! Any plans for the weekend? Tomorrow I am going to read and relax before going to a gender reveal party. Tomorrow is Church and youth group. Welcome back to First Line Friday hosted by Carrie at Reading is My SuperPower!! I am also linking up with Gilion on Rose City Reader for Book Beginnings. This is where you share the beginning of the book that you are reading. To join in the fun grab the book you are reading and leave a comment with the first line (or your link).  This week I am reading To Marry an Earl by Karen Thornell.

 A crash echoed through the silent manor home, practically setting it shaking.

Book Beginnings:

Oxfordshire, 1812

A crash echoed through the silent manor home, practically setting it shaking. Katherine startled, her gaze jumping to the door.

"Where is she?" The loud, slurred words reached her bedroom easily, and she tentatively stood from her chair, setting her book aside. Her hands shook slightly with the movement, but she stilled them in an instant. Father was home weeks before expected and apparently in a terrible mood. Though, by this point in his life, perhaps it would be more appropriate to simply consider such moods his character.

About the book (from Goodreads):

Katherine Cartwright knows through bitter experience that true love is fiction and trust should not be bestowed easily. Now, after two unsuccessful London Seasons, her atrocious father has decided to marry her off to the highest bidder to pay for his gambling debts, ridding himself of the daughter he never wanted. A profitable deal is struck, and Kate is packed off to the home of her betrothed, an earl she has never met. Or so she believes.

When James Fenwick, the new Earl of Bowcott, learns that the girl he’s loved since childhood is being sold off like chattel, he’s determined to step in and save her. He makes an offer her father cannot refuse and insists on a proper engagement. But when Kate meets James again, her old friend cannot bring himself to admit it is him whom she is to marry. Soon, an intricate charade and a past that cannot be escaped jeopardize James’s chance at rekindling their friendship, to say nothing of winning Kate’s heart. Can love truly conquer all, or was this a match doomed
from the start?

 Your turn! Grab the current book you are reading and post the first line in the comments! Then, click on the icons below and join the fun there too! Thank you all for coming by each week, I REALLY appreciate the support and comments 😀