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First Line Friday: Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe

First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books!

Today’s feature is ……
Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe!

Edith Foster was the poster child for hippie living.

T.I. Lowe

Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980
Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness.

Scratching out a living on the family’s tobacco farm is as tough as it gets. When a few random acts of kindness help to ease the Fosters’ hardships, Austin finds herself relying upon some of Magnolia’s most colorful citizens for friendship and more. But it’s next to impossible to hide the truth about the goings-on at Nolia Farms, and Austin’s desperate attempts to save face all but break her.

Just when it seems she might have something more waiting for her—with the son of a wealthy local family who she’s crushed on for years—her father makes a choice that will crack wide-open the family’s secrets and lead to a public reckoning. There are consequences for loving a boy like Vance Cumberland, but there is also freedom in the truth.

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12 responses to “First Line Friday: Under the Magnolias by T.I. Lowe”

  1. The Vanishing at Loxby Manor by Abigail Wilson

    “I knew there was something terribly wrong the moment I stepped foot back inside Loxby Manor – the pervasive restlessness of the servants, the strained silence of the front room”

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      Abigail | Rejoice In Reading

      I am looking forward to reading The Vanishing at Loxby Manor by Abigail Wilson!

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  2. Happy Friday! 😀
    Today on my blog, I’m sharing the first line from Active Defense by Lynette Eason: https://christianfictiongirl.blog/2021/01/15/first-line-friday-170/. I’m currently in the middle of a chapter so I’ll share a line randomly from there here. “Travis wanted to pounce but waited.”
    Hope you have an excellent weekend! 🙂❤📚

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      Abigail | Rejoice In Reading

      I LOVED “Active Defense” by Lynette Eason! Her series are so good!

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  3. sassybookishmama Avatar
    sassybookishmama

    Happy Friday!!

    Today on my blog I am sharing the first line from Caryl McAdoo’s Quincy & Priscilla: A the Lowell House.
    “The hall clock struck the first twelve bongs; Priscilla touched her flute to her mother’s as the second chime sounded.”
    https://www.musingsofasassybookishmama.com/2021/01/first-line-friday-quincy-priscilla-at.html

    Happy Weekend, Happy Reading!

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      Abigail | Rejoice In Reading

      Ooh, that sounds like an interesting read!

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  4. I have some books by her sitting in my TBR, but not this one. Today, I’m sharing the first line from All That We Carried by Erin Bartels. “Midwesterners do dumb things on the one nice day in March.”

    https://moments-of-beauty.blogspot.com/2021/01/first-line-fridays-all-that-we-carried.html

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    1. Abigail | Rejoice In Reading Avatar
      Abigail | Rejoice In Reading

      That is some first line!

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    1. Abigail | Rejoice In Reading Avatar
      Abigail | Rejoice In Reading

      I can’t wait to read it!

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  5. Paula Shreckhise Avatar
    Paula Shreckhise

    That sounds fantastic!

    My first line comes from Dreams of Savannah by Roseanna White:
    Savannah, Georgia May 1861
    Cordeliia Owens had dreamed of this day a hundred times. This moment. This story just waiting to happen

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    1. Abigail | Rejoice In Reading Avatar
      Abigail | Rejoice In Reading

      I read Dreams of Savannah a while ago. I love the cover!!!

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