
Happy Friday & welcome to the First Line Friday hosted by Reading Is My Super Power! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today, I’m featuring the first line of Steeped In Secrets by Lauren Elliot.

And my first few lines are………..
Shayleigh Myers or Shay as her friends and family called her,hopped out of the black Explorer into what was a typical cloudless California late August morning. She gazed at her surroundings,finding it hard to she was actually back in the small town she thought she had left behind forever.
About The Book
From the USA Today bestselling author of the Beyond the Page Bookstore Mysteries, the first installment in a new series featuring Shay Myers, intuitive gemologist and owner of a New Age tea and crystals shop in beautiful coastal California’s Monterey Peninsula.
Flat broke and divorced, intuitive gemologist Shay Myers has changed since leaving her artsy hometown of coastal Bray Harbor sixteen years ago. But when she moves back under strange circumstances, old instincts may be the only key to spilling the tea on a deadly mystery.
Even with her life in ruins in New Mexico, Shay feels uneasy about settling into the small seaside town where she grew up on California’s Monterey Peninsula and taking over an estate bequeathed to her by Bridget Early, a woman she had barely known. Her heightened senses—an empathic gift she’s had since childhood—go into overdrive upon touring Crystals & CuriosiTEAS, Bridget’s eclectic tea and psychic shop brimming with Irish lore and Celtic symbols. They reach a boiling point when Shay looks up to discover a stranger’s body sprawled across the shop’s greenhouse roof . . .
With her new business a crime scene and questions brewing over Bridget’s so-called accidental death, Shay fears she’s also inherited the attention of a killer. The terrifying realization sets her on an impractical investigation for answers aided by her sister, an elusive pure-white German Shepherd, a strikingly handsome pub owner who speaks in a gentle brogue, and a misunderstood young woman with perceptive talents of her own. As Shay struggles to figure out her true purpose in Bray Harbor and the powerful connection she has with the tea shop, she must trust her judgment above all else to identify a ruthless murderer and save herself from becoming victim number three.

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304 pages Kensington Cozies November 29,22 publish date
Would you read this one?
Let me know in the comments what your first line Friday is
Have a fantastic Friday and thanks for stopping by.

15 replies on “First Line Friday”
I really enjoyed Lauren Elliot’s previous series. This sounds like another good cozy mystery. Love that beginning.
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Me too Carla. I’m looking forward to the start of this new series
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Hi Deanne! I’ve heard of this series and it does sound like something I will enjoy for sure! Thanks for sharing this one and reminding me once again that I need to look into the Beyond the Page Bookstore series.
Have a good weekend and happy reading!
Elza Reads
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It’s a great series. Cozies are quick,fun reads. A great way to spend a few hours taking your mind off of other things 🙂
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I am currently reading The Belle of Belgrave Square by Mimi Matthews. I am loving it!
“Later that morning, after a brief stop at Doctors’ Commons, Jasper bounded up the steps of the Wychwood townhouse in Belgrave Square.”
I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
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I’ve heard of this one and would love to read it. Very intriguing beginning. Enjoy your fantastic read and enjoy your weekend 🙂
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Thank you! You have a great weekend, too!
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Thank you so much!
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My first line this week comes from a breathtaking book The Lost Melody by Joanna Politano.
One day in late May of the year 1886, I found myself imprisoned in the Hurstwell Pauper Lunatic Asylum. This was unconscionable—- I had never been a pauper.
Happy reading!
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I’ve heard of this one and would love to read it Paula 🙂
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I am noticing quite a few books coming out or just in general where the person moves back home for whatever reason, even though they thought they never would (or at least that is a theme in a few of my reads recently!). I hope you enjoy it. Have a great weekend!
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I’ve noticed that as well. Sometimes things aren’t as bad as they seem back home.
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That looks like a good one!
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Cozy mysteries are a favorite of mine now.
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Yes!
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