Cover of Like First Love, Again

Like First Love, Again

J.J. Arias

272 pagescontemporary romance
(3k)Steamy

Her secret first love walks back into her life after 14 years — needing help selling a house, not her heart.

Content Warnings
griefdeath of loved onepregnancy/baby loss

Description

When the one who got away comes back...Real estate broker Tori Cruz has spent years building a life of structure and control — keeping her heart, and her past, carefully locked away. But when Mia Falcon, her childhood best friend and secret first love, crashes back into her life after fourteen years apart, everything Tori thought she buried comes rushing back.Mia didn’t mean to find Tori again. She definitely didn’t mean to want her. Divorcing, grieving, and lost, Mia only wanted help selling her mother’s house. She wasn’t prepared for feelings she never dared name to come rushing back — hotter, deeper, and far more dangerous than before.Back together, and it’s like no time has passed. And when Mia realizes that home isn’t a place — it’s a person — she knows she can’t walk away again.Old feelings resurface. New ones spark. And some loves? They never die. They wait. A steamy, slow-burn, friends-to-lovers romance full of heart, heat, and second chances. Mentions of past loss including passing of a parent and early-term miscarriage

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