Thursday, September 18, 2025

Book Beginnings, First Line Friday, & Friday 56: Girl Lost (The King Legacy Book #1) by Kate Angelo

Book Beginnings is a weekly meme hosted by Rose City Reader that asks you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you're reading. I'm also linking up with Carrie at Reading is My Superpower for First Line Friday. Friday 56 asks you to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and share a non-spoilery sentence or two. It was started by Freda at Freda's Voice, but Anne over at My Head is Full of Books has taken over for the time being.

This week I'm featuring Girl Lost (The King Legacy Book #1) by Kate Angelo. I just started reading it and am really enjoying it so far.

About the Book
A LOST BABY
Luna Rosati found acceptance and comfort with her childhood foster family, but when she became pregnant at sixteen, she gave the baby up for adoption and left without a word. Now a CIA counterintelligence officer, Luna wants to reconcile her fractured sense of self by finding the only blood family she has--the teenage daughter she's never met. As Luna closes in on learning the girl's identity with the help of her mentor, Stryker, she prepares to meet him in her old neighborhood--the last place she wants to be. Then Stryker is captured.   

AN INESCAPABLE PAST
Special Agent Corbin King changed his last name to escape the shadow of his convicted father serving a life sentence. When he runs into Luna, the object of his failed teenage romance, the two must put their pasts aside and work together to expose a secret that someone's willing to kill for.

A DEADLY THREAT

But when they encounter a kidnapping, missing bodies, and murder, the secrets Corbin and Luna are keeping from one another are only the beginning of the threat they face with more than their own lives at stake.

Book Beginnings / First Line Friday
Luna Rosati could disappear into any crowd, any city, any life. Except this one. This life. It had a way of pulling her back. Like a riptide dragging her under.

Friday 56
Corbin pushed open the door. The smell of antiseptic cut right through his exhaustion and jolted him awake. The harsh fluorescent lights of the medical examiner's office cast an eerie glow over the sterile room where steel examination tables and rows of medical instruments lined the walls. 

What have you been reading lately?

16 comments:

  1. I believe I've seen the cover of this book somewhere, maybe on Kindle.

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    1. It's such a cool cover, isn't it? Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a great week!

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    1. I just finished it and loved it! Thanks for coming by! Hope you have a great week! :D

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  3. I love that opening line! This does sound like a fun one.

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    1. Isn't it? It hooked me immediately! Thanks for stopping by, Lark! Hope you have a wonderful week! :D

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    1. I loved it! Thanks for coming by! Hope you have a great week! :)

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  5. This book looks so interesting! The synopsis is so full of action and that first line with the "riptide" metaphor is really captivating. It's so cool that the main character is a CIA officer, and the plot seems so complex and exciting. I can definitely see why you're enjoying it. Thanks for sharing!

    I hope you have a great weekend of reading.

    www.melodyjacob.com

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    1. It's so good! Thanks for stopping by! Hope you have a great week!

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  6. I hope you continue to enjoy this one, Ashley. It sounds like it would be hard to put down. Have a good week!

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    1. Thank you! I just finished it and really enjoyed it. Hope you have a wonderful week! :D

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  7. This book sounds so compelling. I hope you are enjoying it.

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    1. Thank you, Anne! I loved it! Hope you have a great week! :D

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  8. I saw this on GR just the other day and had loved the cover.

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    1. It's such a great cover, isn't it? Hope you have a wonderful week! :D

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