First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?

The Rules:

• Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page.
• Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first.
• Finally… reveal the book!

First Lines:

“I’m not accustomed to leaving a woman unsatisfied, especially an attractive woman who’d already shown me a great deal of generosity. Still, it couldn’t be helped. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t catch Mrs. Green’s cheating husband in the act.”

Ha! This is not where my dirty mind was taking these first few sentences!

Do you recognize the lines?

Here’s a hint:

It’s a new mystery/romance novel.

Still not sure? Here’s another hint:

It’s written by Paula Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith.

The First Lines Friday book is:

Sounds Like a Plan.

About the Book:

Title: Sounds Like a Plan

Authors: Paula Samuels Young and Dwayne Alexander Smith

Page Length: 304 pages

Publication Date: July 9, 2024

Publisher: Atria Books

Synopsis: 

Reluctantly joining forces after discovering they’ve both been hired on the same missing person case, two rival Black private investigators find their mutual dislike evolve into an undeniable attraction in this rollicking, romantic thrill ride told in alternate perspectives from award-winning authors Dwayne Alexander Smith and Pamela Samuels Young.

Jackson Jones and Mackenzie Cunningham have a lot in common. They are both hard-working private investigators with their own firms in Los Angeles. They are both Black, happily single, and very good at their jobs. But when they’re together, they are like oil and water.

When they find themselves working the same missing persons case, the idea of collaborating seems about as likely as a blizzard in Beverly Hills. But once it’s clear that they have been set up to take the fall for a murder, they have no choice but to work together.

Bickering their way from Century City to Malibu and beyond, it becomes increasingly hard for them to deny the sparks flying between them. But with a small army of killers in hot pursuit, there’s no time to sort through their complicated feelings in this witty, fast-paced, and swoon-worthy mystery.

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