First Lines Friday ~ Like Frail Boats on the Sea (Little Sister Island book4) by Caren J. Werlinger #Contemporary Fiction

Welcome to First Line(s) Friday, a weekly feature hosted by Carrie at Reading Is My Superpower. Just share the first line or lines from the book you’re currently reading.

I’m just about to start the 4th book in the Little Sister Island series by Caren J. Werlinger, Like Frail Boats on the Sea. I enjoyed the previous books very much, so I’m looking forward to this one.

Prologue

1st February 1761

Stars blanketed the sky, all the brighter for the lack of a moon. A few clouds scudded across the sky, and sparse snowflakes drifted, blown about by a slight breeze as Imogen picked her way through the woods. Tree shadows fell across her path, rippling over her heavy woolen cloak. She gasped when a rabbit burst from the brush and raced past her. Behind it, a fox in pursuit nearly jumped in a somersault trying to alter course when it spotted her.

For a few heartbeats, they stared at each other, then the fox darted into the undergrowth again, quickly disappearing. She listened until the rustle of its movements faded in the dark and then continued on her way. She knew where she needed to go.

Home.
Molly Cooper thought she knew what home was. Little Sister Island—the place she was born and raised. The place her people have lived since the 1760s. The place that was literally tied to her by blood.

Eryn Grant had grown up thinking she knew what home was, but then she found out about Little Sister Island and her mother’s side of the family. A place and people she never knew existed. Being on the island awakens more than just a desire she can’t quite put her finger on.

A series of island tragedies—past and present—shake all of the islanders. Eryn is inexorably drawn by these events, back to the place she needs to be, but for Molly, everything she thought she knew is turned upside down. She’s adrift in the world. Even the love of her mate, Kathleen, isn’t enough to hold her steady in this storm.

The island’s magic is powerful, but is it powerful enough to heal rifts this deep?