First Line Friday & Friday 56: People Watching by Hannah Bonam-Young

Welcome to First Line Friday! This is a weekly feature hosted by Carrie at Reading Is My Superpower. The idea is very simple: you just share the first line (or lines) of the book you are currently reading. 

"Please, Bertha, Baby, I am begging you." I say, tightening my hands on the shuddering steering wheel. There's not another living soul in sight. No one to witness the inevitable crash and burn if Bertha decides to call it quits and send us rolling backwards down the hill.

Friday56 is hosted by HeadFullOfBooks

RULES:

*Grab a book, any book

*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your e-reader (If you want to improvise, go ahead!)

*Find a snippet, but no spoilers!

*Post it to your blog and add your url to the Linky. If you do not add the specific url for your post, we may miss it! 

*Visit other blogs and leave comments about their snippets. Expand the community. Please leave a comment for me, too!  

Page 56:

"The truth is I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. Making you fly the nest means losing Mom, but keeping you here means disappointing Mom by allowing you to lose yourself. She never once asked me to keep her here or take care of her until the very end. She only asked for me to make sure that you were okay. And, I haven't been doing that. I cannot keep the store running and look after her at the same time once you're flying free."

Synopsis:

Prudence Welch has found solace in her introverted life in Baysville, a charming tourist town in Northern Ontario. Despite once dreaming of a life beyond its borders, she now finds contentment in her working at her father’s gas station, writing poetry, and caring for her mother, who was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer's shortly after Prue’s nineteenth birthday. But as her mother’s condition worsens and her father’s concerns about her future intensify, Prue feels her world slipping further out of control.

Enter Milo Kablukov, an enigmatic wanderer whose beat-up van covered with ill-advised bumper stickers rolls into town just when Prue needs a change. It’s all too easy to let go with him, and Prue can’t help but strike up an unlikely friendship with Milo, which leads to a wild and sexy agreement between them.

Milo, a man of many adventures and countless stories, is not one to settle down. However, his brother’s urgent need for help has brought him to Baysville, and now the intriguing Prue has given him more reason to stay. Especially once they start spending more time together, their chemistry intensifying, and casual-sex lessons start at Prue’s request.

But as their temporary arrangement blossoms into something deeper, Prue and Milo discover that getting out of their comfort zones is one thing . . . taking that leap together is something else entirely.

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