#8Sunday First Lines--Sweet Auralie

Welcome back to #8Sunday, the weekend writing warrior's blog hop where writers post eight to ten sentences of their work.  Since we often talk about the importance of opening lines, I've been posting the openings of my books over the past few months.  What better way to finish this series of openers than with the first lines of my brand new book. 
Sweet Auralie is the final book of the Sweet Lenora series. Unlike the other three books in the series, it's a full length novel rather than a novella. It begins where the last novella, All Things Returned, leaves off, with the hanging of Cyrus Abercrombie, hated former first mate on the Sweet Lenora. Anton Boudreaux narrates this part of the story--

​ The sun shone bright the morning of the hanging as though it were a perfect day for a picnic. When I had ridden past the public square with Lenora’s brother, Edward, the day earlier, there were already booths being hammered together by local merchants making ready to sell their wares at the spectacle.
“Will you attend?” Edward asked.
“I would not like to put Lenora through such an ordeal,” I answered. I should myself have liked to see Cyrus Abercrombie receive the justice he so richly deserved, but I did not hold with turning sober occasions into celebration.
“Aye. We shall stay home as well.” I wondered if Edward might have gone had he not wanted to protect his wife, Meifeng.
​“You are quite right, ladies should not be subjected to such things. Perhaps no one should.” Sweet Auralie releases as an e-book tomorrow, October 5.  You can preorder it on Amazon Find your next great read! Check out all the authors at the #8Sunday Blog Hop Read More About Sweet Auralie