First Last Kiss

A fake girlfriend for the holidays.
A hockey legacy under pressure.
And one New Year's kiss that changes everything.

Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Kristen Hope Mazzola returns with a swoony, heartfelt hockey romance about fake dating, forced proximity, and a New Year's Eve kiss that changes everything.

Gret Hayes has spent his entire life trying to outrun a shadow.

As the youngest son of NY Otters royalty, every mistake is magnified, every bad game a headline, and every season a test he's terrified of failing. When his confidence shatters right before Christmas, the last thing he needs is a complication.

Then Etta James moves into his guest room.

She's a rising jazz singer with a broken heart, nowhere to go, and a rule about not falling for emotionally unavailable men. Gret is supposed to be a temporary solution. A favor. A roommate.

Instead, he becomes her rescuer.
Her fake boyfriend for the holidays.
And the safest place she's had in years.

From ugly sweater traditions to skating under Rockefeller lights, pretending starts to feel dangerously real.

But Gret doesn't do half-commitments.
And Etta doesn't trust happy endings.

With family pressure, a career on the line, and feelings neither of them planned to catch, they'll have to decide if a once-in-a-lifetime connection is worth breaking every rule they made.

First Last Kiss is a tender, swoony sports romance featuring:

• Fake dating
• Forced proximity
• Found family
• An acts-of-service hero
• A holiday love story
• And a New Year's Eve happily ever after

Perfect for fans of slow-burn romance, protective heroes, and found-family hockey love stories.