First Time Caller

First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, Book 1)

Author: B.K. Borison
Genre: Contemporary Romance / Romantic Comedy
Book Rating: ⭐ 9/10
Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ 3/5

Description

Aiden Valentine hosts a romance hotline for a living. There’s just one problem—he no longer believes in love.

As the jaded host of Baltimore’s Heartstrings radio show, Aiden spends his nights helping strangers navigate their love lives while secretly wondering if romance is even worth believing in anymore.

Then a young girl calls the station looking for dating advice—not for herself, but for her single mom, Lucie Stone.

The call goes viral.

Suddenly, all of Baltimore is invested in finding Lucie her happily-ever-after.

Lucie never thought there was anything wrong with her life. She has a job she enjoys, an incredible family, and a clever daughter she adores. But with thousands of strangers now discussing her nonexistent love life, she starts wondering whether she might actually want someone to share it with.

Heartstrings decides to help find her the perfect match, putting Aiden right in the middle of Lucie’s search for romance.

There’s just one complication.

The chemistry isn’t happening with her dates. It’s happening with the grumpy man behind the microphone.

As Lucie and Aiden spend more time together, the hopeless romantic begins getting under the skin of the man who stopped believing in happily-ever-afters. Now Lucie must decide whether to follow the love story everyone has planned for her—or take a chance on the unexpected man sitting right beside her.

Cozy, heartfelt, and swoony, First-Time Caller is a Sleepless in Seattle-inspired romance filled with late-night radio, found family, a lovable matchmaking daughter, and two people discovering that sometimes love finds you when you aren’t even looking.

Tropes / Mood

Hopeless Romantic × Cynic • Radio Host MMC • Single Mom FMC • Grumpy × Sunshine • Sleepless in Seattle Inspired • Workplace Proximity • Matchmaking • Single Parent Romance • Viral Moment • He Falls for Her • Found Family • Slow Burn • Baltimore Setting • Cozy Romance • Banter • Opposites Attract • Feel-Good Romance • Open-Door Spice