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Chapter One 

"The Back door slammed and, nine-year-old Danielle Bennett jumped. "

Twenty Five Years Later

Chapter Two

"Dani Collins tilted her head as she tapped the Blackwing pencil against the sketch pad and studied the women she'd just drawn."

 

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Prologue

"The Click next to her ear jerked her out of a deep sleep to roll into a sitting position, a scream on her lips her eyes on the man with the gun standing next to her." 

Chapter One 

Eighteen Months Later 

Mid-September 

"Lainie Jackson glanced at the clock on the dash and pressed the gas a little harder even though the rain came down in sheets."

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Prologue 

Lake George, Province of New York

Winter 1753

"He was numb, the wind-whipped snow driving icy shards into his exposed skin, the grip on his rifle weak."

Chapter One 

Acadie 

December 1754

"Sylvie Galant took a deep pine-scented breath."

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Chapter One 

"The Sun always leaves the East Casemates first." 

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The Fall 

Poenari Castle, Wallacha 

December 1917

"The Earth was cold, frozen, and slick." 

The Riser 

Ten Years Later 

"The Frozen air is black as it scratches the night." 

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London 1927

"From her rooftop perch high above moonlit Whitehall, Ivy shucked off her blood-crusted blouse and skirt and dropped them into a pile to be incinerated." 

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Chapter One 

"Everything around me whispered lies." 

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Bertha 

Early March, 1952 

"According to Mrs. Higginbottom- home economics teacher at Bonaventure Park High School-there were certain skills that the average girl needed to master in order to secure for herself a good husband, live in a nice home, raise clean-cut children, and serve her country." 

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January, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 

Chapter One

"History didn't haphazardly repeat itself in the chapters of Elise Malvern's life. It copy-and-pasted in the most irritating fashion." 

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April  1715

Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-laye 

France

"Struck by sunlight, the sprawling chateau was blinding, rose-hued white." 

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Prologue

Dobryzov Castle, Russia

January 1917

“She kissed Jack hard on the mouth, then aimed her Beretta over his Shoulder and fired a round of shots down the medieval corridor of Dobryzov Castle.”

 

This first line gives me Black Widow and Winter Soldiers vibes. So, if that’s what the author was going for it worked.

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25 August 1651

Somewhere in the Isles of Scilly 

"The Sea was vengeance. The sea was justice. The sea was the hand of the almighty, stretched ou tto slap and strike." 

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Chapter One 

"Simon Barre had left his best revolved back at his family estate near Wilmington, Sussex, along with the Barrington Surname." 

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 Unu

“Fear Arrived at Five o’clock.”

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Galway City, Ireland 

April 16, 1920

"No one ever tells the truth about love." 

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Paris, France

Wednesday, May 29, 1940

"As Long as she kept dancing, Lucille Girard could pretend the world wasn't falling apart." 

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York, Virginia 

September 1755 

"Chocolate had been Captain Henri Lennox's one weakness. Was it still?"

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September 28, 1923 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

"Snapping Wind yanked at the letter in my hand, and my fingers tightened, the crisp edge biting into my palm." 

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Chapter one 

"If Rory Perez could find a way to wad all the Cilantro into the entire world into a ball and hurl it into outer space, it still wouldn't far enough removed for her preference." 

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Prologue

1947

" Raphe Broussard was just a boy when he first saw it—glimpsed it at least”

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Chapter one 

September 

Louisville, Kentucky 

"Some engagements end in happily ever afters, and some just end... on social media."