First Lines Fridays 13th March 2026 | Jo Linsdell

First Lines Fridays 13th March 2026

  

First Lines Fridays


Books: First Lines Fridays 13th March 2026

Welcome to another First Lines Friday! Are you ready to judge this week's book based purely on it's opening lines? Will you be adding this week's pick to your TBR list?

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I'm participating in First Lines Fridays as I think it's a great way to highlight more of the books that are on my bookshelves. 

What is First Lines Fridays?

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? 

  • Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page 
  • Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first 
  • Finally… reveal the book!

My Pick For This Week


The first lines of the book:


When the plane took off, Sean didn’t experience that exhilarating liftoff surge he usually got when his body, mind, and soul were ejected into the earth’s atmosphere. This flight was no prelude to the next adventure. In fact, it was adventure’s negative image. It was an anti-adventure. He was going home.


Do you know which book this is from? Scroll down to find out!


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And the book is...


The Shortest Way Home by Juliette Fay



About the book


Book synopsis for The Shortest Way Home by Juliette Fay

What do you do when destiny isn’t turning out as planned? For Sean Doran, you make a course correction . . . and go home.

USA Today bestselling author Juliette Fay delivers a richly-drawn page-turner with humor, heart, and hope for finding oneself when all the tables have turned. Perfect for fans of Jonathan Tropper and Marisa de los Santos.

Sean Doran has spent twenty years as a nurse in Third World war zones and natural disaster areas, fully embracing what he’d always felt was his purpose in to do as much good as possible with whatever time he has. With a 50% chance of carrying the gene for Huntington’s Disease like his mother, he’s never married or had children, and has kept his relationships casual. But when Sean begins to question the basis for his life’s work and burnout sets in, he is reluctantly drawn back home to Massachusetts.

There he discovers that his steely elderly aunt, drama-loving sister, and quirky nephew are having a little natural disaster of their own. Sean soon finds himself parenting a misunderstood boy, falling in love with a woman from his past … and realizing that the bonds of love and loyalty might just rewrite what he once thought he knew about destiny.



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Where to find The Shortest Way Home by Juliette Fay online: 

 



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