First Line Friday #98- A Life Once Dreamed

Happy Friday, my bookish friends! I hope you all have a great Friday and weekend! First Line Friday is 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. This week am reading A Life Once Dreamed by Rachel Fordham. 

Fearful, timid, reserved.

 Book Beginnings:

Fearful, timid, reserved. Agnes had been described as such since she was old enough to pay attention to the words of the adults around her. She looked again at the advertisement on the wrinkled sheet of newspaper. The Dakota Territory. Schoolteacher. Contract. Her head spun as she considered the venture. Nothing about it naturally called to her, yet she was fairly certain she had no other options.

Synopsis (Goodreads):

Six years ago, a shocking secret sent Agnes Pratt running in search of a new start. She found it in Penance, a rugged town of miners and lumberjacks in the Dakota Territory, where she became Miss Aggie, respected schoolteacher and confirmed old maid. But the past has a way of catching up with people.

When childhood friend and former sweetheart James Harris accepts a position as the town doctor, Aggie's pleasantly predictable days suddenly become anything but. James wants to know why Agnes left behind the life they had dreamed of creating for themselves--but he is the one person who can never know.

In the shadows of the Black Hills, can a healing light be shed on the past? Or will the secret Agnes can't seem to outrun destroy her chance at happiness?

Fan-favorite Rachel Fordham brings to life the dusty streets of an 1880s frontier town in this story that affirms where you come from matters far less than where you're going.

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