First time/awakening • Age gap • Small town secrets • Found family • Steam level: 🔥🔥🔥

His first kiss. His first love. His first choice between safety and truth.

Adam Foster is drowning in secrets. At twenty-six, he's never kissed a man, never told anyone he's gay, never risked the teaching career that means everything to him. Within his conservative family, staying closeted feels like survival.

When Rico Martinez crashes into his life, Adam's carefully constructed walls start cracking.

Rico doesn't do scared. Doesn't do closeted. Doesn't do complicated. But something about the shy English teacher with beautiful hands and vulnerable eyes makes him want to break every relationship rule he's ever made.

One dinner leads to one perfect kiss, which leads to Adam's first time with a man who makes him feel like he's finally becoming his authentic self. But when the school board receives complaints about his relationship, and pressure from his family mounts up, Adam must choose: his job and family's approval, or the mechanic who's patient enough to show him what authentic love feels like.

Some firsts are worth fighting for.

"Tender, steamy, and emotionally devastating in the best way. First-time romance at its finest." - Essential reading for fans of Perfect for fans of Lucy Lennox and Riley Hart.

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