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?

• 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!

Hello and happy weekend! The book I’m spotlighting this week is one that’s been on my TBR for a while but has recently got a UK publisher. Filled with desire and dangerous situations, a few blogger friends of mine have highly rated this one & I can’t wait to start reading it.

Three Weddings. Three Funerals. A better person would have been devastated, but Alessa bowed her head to hide dry eyes as she knelt before the jewel encrusted coffin on the altar.

Oooooh. This sounds SO GOOD! Ready to find out what it is?

Three weddings. Three funerals. Alessa’s gift from the gods is supposed to magnify a partner’s magic, not kill every suitor she touches.

Now, with only weeks left until a hungry swarm of demons devours everything on her island home, Alessa is running out of time to find a partner and stop the invasion. When a powerful priest convinces the faithful that killing Alessa is the island’s only hope, her own soldiers try to assassinate her.

Desperate to survive, Alessa hires Dante, a cynical outcast marked as a killer, to become her personal bodyguard. But as rebellion explodes outside the gates, Dante’s dark secrets may be the biggest betrayal. He holds the key to her survival and her heart, but is he the one person who can help her master her gift or destroy her once and for all?