First-Time Caller
Aiden Valentine is the smooth-voiced host of a late-night call-in radio show about love and relationships — which is a problem, because privately he has lost all faith in romance. His ratings are slipping and his job is on the line when a young girl phones in, hoping to find a boyfriend for her lonely single mother, Lucie. The segment goes viral overnight, and the station seizes on it: they will help Lucie find love on the air, with Aiden as her reluctant, behind-the-scenes coach.
As Aiden guides Lucie through a string of set-up dates and awkward on-air moments, the two spend hours together in the booth, and the easy warmth between them grows into something neither planned for. The trouble is that the whole city is now invested in Lucie's search for the perfect man — and the man she is falling for is the cynic in the headphones beside her.
A witty, warmhearted contemporary romance that nods to classic radio-romance films, First-Time Caller is the first book in B.K. Borison's Heartstrings series: a slow-warming, banter-filled story about second chances, found feeling, and learning to believe in love again.
A Baltimore single mother whose love life becomes public property after her daughter calls in to the show.
Host of Heartstrings, Baltimore's late-night radio romance hotline, who has privately lost his own faith in love.
Lucie's ex-partner and co-parent to Maya, still one of her closest friends; married to Matteo.
Lucie's young daughter, whose late-night call to the radio show asking for dating advice for her mother sets the story in motion.
Aiden's best friend and a weatherman at the station; the lead of the next Heartstrings book.
This book is the first installment in the Heartstrings series.
The narrative is explicitly inspired by the film Sleepless in Seattle.