Front Page Fridays Week-61
Front Page Fridays Week-61
Welcome to Front Page Fridays Week-61. On Fridays I showcase the first page of a new book.
My Front Page Fridays Week-61 guest is Natalie Kleinman with her brand-new contemporary romance, Come Fly With Me.
Here’s the opening:
PROLOGUE
Olivia closed her eyes and tried to block out the sight of the runway racing past the window. It was a long way from New York to London.
She felt like the terrified four-year-old she’d been twenty years ago when her parents had treated her to a fairground ride on a bright yellow plastic plane. Feet on the ground again, she’d promptly been sick. It had taken every ounce of willpower, even after all this time, to summon up the courage to fly. It seemed such an unnatural thing to her, to be trapped inside a metal tube for hours on end, travelling at high speed from one continent to another. And why didn’t it fall out of the sky? And why didn’t it crash when it landed?
Oh, God! She still had that bit to go through, and her stomach did a double lurch as she opened her eyes just in time to see the plane lift off the ground. She could see cars on the perimeter road becoming ever smaller until they resembled ants frantically rushing to and from their nest. And then she couldn’t see the cars any more. And then she couldn’t see the road. And there were deep indentations where her nails had dug hard into her hands.
There was no turning back. But what was waiting for her on the other side of the ocean? She didn’t know. All she knew was that she had to find out.
“First time?”
“Excuse me?” she asked the stranger sitting next to her.
“Never flown before? Don’t worry. That’s the worst bit over.”
“Landing?”
“I’ll hold your hand,” he said, offering his own. “I’m Dan Pearce.” His hand felt warm and firm in hers. Reassuring somehow.
“Olivia Croft. And yes, it is my first time, and I’m terrified.”
What Dan didn’t know was that for Olivia the destination was as frightening as the journey. That somewhere, hundreds of miles ahead but just a few hours away, her mother was waiting. Her real mother. The one she’d been led to believe had died in childbirth.
Her birth.
About Come Fly With Me:
Adopted as a baby and raised in the USA, Olivia Croft is stunned when she discovers that the mother she thought had died in childbirth is alive — and has been searching for her for twenty years. But she’s on the other side of the Atlantic, and to meet her Olivia must conquer her lifelong fear of flying…
Being on a plane is just as terrifying as Olivia expected. But when a handsome stranger comes to her assistance, she’s buoyed by his quiet kindness — and, to her surprise, by the flutter of something more.
In the sleepy Cotswolds town of Cuffingham, she finds a warm welcome with her birth mother Hannah Marshall and a whole new family she never knew existed. Dan Pearce, meanwhile, can’t stop thinking about the shy stranger he met on the plane.
When their paths cross again, the connection neither of them expected begins to deepen. But life has a way of complicating even the most hopeful beginnings, and Olivia soon learns how fragile happiness can be.
Will Olivia find the courage to embrace her newfound family and the future she never planned? Can she and Dan prove that what began by chance might be strong enough to last?
And when a shocking event threatens to pull them apart, will love be enough to keep them together?
Link: getbook.at/ComeFlyWithMe
About Natalie Kleinman:
Natalie began her writing career with short stories, of which some fifty have been published in magazines in the UK and internationally. She was winner of the Christmas-themed John Walter Salver Competition 2021 run by the SWWJ. Her first three novels were contemporary romantic fiction before she moved to Regency historical romance. She now has seven books published in this genre and has returned to contemporary romance with two books in 2025 and a third in 2026.
When she isn’t writing, Natalie is a regular at her local gym. She enjoys lunching with friends and spending time outside. In addition, a lifelong resident of London, she takes full advantage of all the culture and entertainment that amazing city has to offer, with visits to museums and the theatre being a top priority.
Natalie is a member of the SWWJ (Society of Women Writers and Journalists)
Social Media Links:
https://nataliekleinman.com/
https://www.facebook.com/NatalieKleinmanAuthor
https://www.instagram.com/nataliekleinman6279/
Purchase Links to Some of Her Other Titles:
Contemporary romance
A Walk in the Park getbook.at/AWalkInThePark
After All These Years getbook.at/AfterAllTheseYears
Escape to the Cotswolds http://amzn.to/2gU9GOU
Regency romance
The Girl With Flaming Hair amzn.to/3X0bsOP
The Ghost of Glendale amzn.to/3DjqZhz
When Only Pride Remains https://amzn.to/3w0s60Y
I hope you enjoyed reading Front Page Fridays Week-61. Please come back next time when I’ll be featuring a different author and the first page of their book.
And please take a look at books already featured on Front Page Fridays:
1. Blood Ribbons by Lin Le Versha
2. Fatal Blow by Brian Price
3. Can I Trust You? by Rob Gittins
4. The Last Bird of Paradise by AJ Aberford
5. Never Forgive You by Hilly Barmby
6. The Mists of Pencarrack Moor by Terri Nixon
7. The Thief of Joy by Stacey Murray
8. Edge of the Land by Malcolm Hollingdrake
9. The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood
10. The Midnight Man by Julie Anderson
11. Dark Road Home by Sheila Bugler
12. Her Charming Man by Rachel Sargeant
13. Wedding Bells at the Lakeside Hotel by Linda Huber
14. Dark Island by Daniel Aubrey
15. The Shame by Maureen Myant
16. Dead Mile by Jo Furniss
17. The Violin and Candlestick by David Jarvis
18. New Memories by S.E. Shepherd
19. Young Blood by Victoria Gemmell
20. Private Investigations by Rob Gittins
21. The Car Horn revolution by A.J. Aberford
22. What Lies Beneath by Maureen Myant
23. A Safe Place by Stephanie Carty
24. Fatal Image by Brian Price
25. Run For Your Lies by A.A. Abbott
26. A Walk in the Park by Natalie Kleinman
27. A Storm in a Teacup by Rachael Gray
28. The Midnight Bookshop by Amanda James
29. A Death in the Afternoon by Julie Anderson
30. Justice by Madalyn Morgan
31. Let Me Out by Amanda Brittany
32. A Pocketful of Poisons by Brian Price
33. Tribute by Madalyn Morgan
34. Mistress of the Manor by Cara Clayton
35. Waves of Change in Pelican Crossing by Maggie Chistensen
36. A French Inheritance by Jennifer Bohnet
37. Beneath the Same Moon by AS Andrejevic
38. The Fallen by Maureen Myant
39. The Bad Women by Jennie Ensor
40. Lies Between Friends by AA Abbott
41. Fatal Shot by Brian Brice
42. The Alibi by Katharine Johnson
43. The Croatian Island Library by Eva Glyn
44. If I Were You by Helen Matthews
45. (Not Quite) Done With Dating by Bella Osborne
46. Poison at the Wild Haggis Bookshop by Jackie Baldwin
47. Beattie Cavendish and the Highland Hideaway by Mary-Jane Riley
48. Missing… Rose Malone by Linda Huber
49. Fiasco by Nicola Kelsall
50. 27 Church Street by A.J. Hobart
51. The Girls of Maple Close by Amanda Brittany
52. Growing Old Disgracefully by Karen King
53. Meet Me At Apple Blossom Lane by Anita Faulkner
54. Festival Days by Julie Anderson
55. The Conservatory by Anthony Aberford
56. Her Rising Star by Rachel Sargeant
57. Wonderful by Louise Beech
58. Safe Space by Beck Lewis
59. The Boy in the Photograph by Hilly Barmby
60. One Little Lie by Charlotte Leonard