The First Sentences Matter

I wonder how many other writers have had this experience. Two of the last sentences I wrote before publishing Shadows from The Sun were the first two sentences in the book. It took me the whole story to get it right. But here they are: “Ryan Farraday had fought in war zones around the world but he’d never felt so vulnerable as right at that moment, standing on a ridge overlooking the river, watching Elizabeth Malone work her way toward him along the mountain track. He’d waited fifteen years to be alone with her again and he had no idea how she was going to greet him.”