Answers to the First Lines Quiz

1) The whole affair began so very quietly.
c) Madam Will You Talk — Mary Stewart

2) Here is a small fact: you are going to die.
b) The Book Thief — Markus Zusak

3) She needed a husband and she needed one fast.
a) Shattered Rainbows — Mary Jo Putney

4) People disappear all the time.
a) Outlander — Diana Gabaldon

5). A gentleman was strolling down a side street in Paris, on his way back from the house of one Madame de Verchoureux
a) These Old Shades — Georgette Heyer. *And by the way, in 2026 it will be the 100th anniversary of the publication of These Old Shades, and it’s never been pout of print. Cool, eh?.

6) They were both born under the sign of Gemini and for those who believe in the stars as arbiters of faith, this must have seemed the link that bound them.
c) Magic Flutes — Eva Ibbotson

7). There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
c) Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

8). You’ve got to say this for desperation: It makes you much more open-minded.
a) The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary

9). It wasn’t everyday a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of a road, not even in Dean Robillard’s larger-than-life world.
d) Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

10). He needed a woman. Bad
b) Mackenzie’s Mountain — Linda Howard.

11) As Sebastian, Lord St Vincent stared at the young woman who had just barged her way into his London residence, it occurred to him that he might have tried to abduct the wrong heiress last week at Stoney Cross.
c) The Devil In Winter — Lisa Kleypas

12). Be sure he drinks the wine before he gets your clothes off.
b) Lord of a Thousand Nights — Madeline Hunter

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Answers to the First Lines Quiz

Answers to the First Lines Quiz

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