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The First Kind of Love
(2025)(The fifth book in the Riverside Reapers series)
A novel by Celeste Briars
Shiloh St. Clair is a one-woman army. Married to her job at the ripe age of twenty-five, her vision board consists of top-of-the-line espresso machines instead of white dresses and wedding bells. With her family’s business doomed to go under, her future’s balancing on a knife’s edge of guilt and responsibility. She thinks she has her whole future planned out—in a pretty little schedule planner, no less—until a rogue hockey slapshot comes careening into her tiny shop, dismantling everything she thought she knew about herself.
Fulton Cazzarelli—self-proclaimed nervous wreck and bearer of the coveted virgin title—has been crushing on the pretty barista who serves him dairy-free coffee and crumbly raspberry tarts for four years. He never thought he’d muster the courage to ask her out…until one of his teammate’s springs a destination wedding on the entire team. Now, with his friends goading him into bringing a plus one, Fulton takes a quantum-leap of courage to get the girl of his dreams.
A hesitant Shiloh agrees to three weeks in Cabo with the Riverside Reapers’ biggest sweetheart, yet her work obligations simmer low on the back burner the moment her feet hit that golden sand. But as she gets closer to Fulton—and they both discover that they’re more alike than they thought—Shiloh is caught in a crossfire of loyalty to her parents, and loyalty to her heart. Indulging in playing pretend isn’t on her itinerary, and neither is prioritizing a short-lived relationship. Fulton, however, knows what lies in his future, and it consists of one brown-eyed brunette.
Will Shiloh finally find the balance between business and pleasure, or will she let the best thing that’s ever happened to her drift out to sea?
The First Kind of Love is a laugh-out-loud hockey romance featuring a socially awkward virgin, the strong-willed barista of his dreams, a destination wedding, beachside tomfoolery, a boatload of secondhand embarrassment, spice hot enough to make you question your religious values, and a soul-deep connection between two lost—yet likeminded—individuals. It’s the fifth book in a series but can be read as a standalone.
The First Kind of Love is a friends to lovers, one bed, soulmates, forced proximity, destination wedding, virgin MMC, hockey romance with no cheating, and a satisfying happily ever after.
Genre: New Adult Romance
Fulton Cazzarelli—self-proclaimed nervous wreck and bearer of the coveted virgin title—has been crushing on the pretty barista who serves him dairy-free coffee and crumbly raspberry tarts for four years. He never thought he’d muster the courage to ask her out…until one of his teammate’s springs a destination wedding on the entire team. Now, with his friends goading him into bringing a plus one, Fulton takes a quantum-leap of courage to get the girl of his dreams.
A hesitant Shiloh agrees to three weeks in Cabo with the Riverside Reapers’ biggest sweetheart, yet her work obligations simmer low on the back burner the moment her feet hit that golden sand. But as she gets closer to Fulton—and they both discover that they’re more alike than they thought—Shiloh is caught in a crossfire of loyalty to her parents, and loyalty to her heart. Indulging in playing pretend isn’t on her itinerary, and neither is prioritizing a short-lived relationship. Fulton, however, knows what lies in his future, and it consists of one brown-eyed brunette.
Will Shiloh finally find the balance between business and pleasure, or will she let the best thing that’s ever happened to her drift out to sea?
The First Kind of Love is a laugh-out-loud hockey romance featuring a socially awkward virgin, the strong-willed barista of his dreams, a destination wedding, beachside tomfoolery, a boatload of secondhand embarrassment, spice hot enough to make you question your religious values, and a soul-deep connection between two lost—yet likeminded—individuals. It’s the fifth book in a series but can be read as a standalone.
The First Kind of Love is a friends to lovers, one bed, soulmates, forced proximity, destination wedding, virgin MMC, hockey romance with no cheating, and a satisfying happily ever after.
Genre: New Adult Romance
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