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First Last Kiss: Expanded 2026 Edition
Paperback
Series: Shots on Goal (Expanded 2026 Edition), Book 8
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 30 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.
AUTHOR NOTE:
This expanded edition of First Last Kiss is part of the complete Shots on Goal series relaunch-eight fully rewritten, expanded, and newly edited standalone romances set in the interconnected world of the New York Otters.
Each novel follows a different couple and a different emotional journey, and the books can be read in any order.
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