WHAT’S INSIDE THE GUIDE

🏒 Discussion questions
🏒 Character breakdowns
🏒 Emotional themes & trope discussions
🏒 Playlist inspiration
🏒 Snack & drink pairings
🏒 Bonus book club activities
🏒 Hockey terminology for non-sports readers
🏒 Behind-the-book notes from Kristen
🏒 Holiday romance and fake dating discussion prompts

PERFECT FOR READERS WHO LOVE…

❄️ Fake dating romance
❄️ Forced proximity tension
❄️ Holiday love stories
❄️ Found family dynamics
❄️ Slow-burn emotional chemistry
❄️ Protective hockey heroes
❄️ Emotional healing arcs
❄️ Cozy winter romance atmosphere
❄️ New Year’s Eve kisses
❄️ Character-driven romantic comedy

ABOUT THE BOOK

First Last Kiss is a heartfelt, emotionally layered hockey romance about unexpected connection, rebuilding your life after heartbreak, and discovering that home can sometimes arrive in the form of another person.

At the center of the story is Gret Hayes — a hockey legacy carrying the crushing weight of expectations — and Etta James, a struggling singer trying to piece her life back together after losing everything she thought her future would be.

What begins as a temporary arrangement quickly turns into something far more complicated.

This story explores vulnerability in all its forms:
the pressure of family legacy,
the fear of failure,
the loneliness hidden beneath success,
and the terrifying hope that comes with allowing yourself to be loved fully.

Within the Shots on Goal universe, First Last Kiss brings together cozy holiday atmosphere, emotional intimacy, found-family warmth, and the kind of slow-burn connection that quietly becomes impossible to ignore.

At its core, this story is about being chosen — not out of obligation, convenience, or expectation, but because someone sees every broken piece of you and stays anyway.

A NOTE FROM KRISTEN

Writing First Last Kiss felt like stepping into the kind of romance that wraps around you slowly and stays long after the final page.

Gret and Etta’s story is deeply emotional beneath all of the banter, fake dating chaos, and holiday magic. Both characters are carrying insecurities and heartbreak in very different ways, and watching them slowly become each other’s safe place was incredibly special to write.

This book is about kindness during difficult seasons of life. About finding comfort when everything feels uncertain. About learning that love does not have to be earned through perfection.

And honestly?
There’s just something magical about New York at Christmas mixed with hockey romance.

Thank you for spending time with these characters and this world.

— Kristen Hope Mazzola

READ NEXT

Loved First Last Kiss?

Continue your hockey romance binge with:

🏒 Public Enemy #91
Fake dating chaos, explosive chemistry, forced proximity, and emotional vulnerability collide inside the Minnesota Frosthawks expansion of the Shots on Goal universe.

🏒 Hat Trick
The original New York Otters romance featuring forbidden love, emotional healing, and the story that started the entire interconnected hockey world.

🏒 Cherry Picked
A high-heat insta-love hockey romance packed with emotional intensity, undeniable chemistry, and one unforgettable connection.

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