All Your Firsts | ARC

Thank you to Naughty Nook PR and the author for gifting me a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This indie book by Amarie Collins is 307 pages of off-the-rails motorcycle gang/mafia insanity.

Rosie, our female main character, is a mafia princess in the largest, most violent family in Chicago, but she’s run away. Her brother helped her and put her up with his best friend, Vic (our male main character). Unfortunately, Vic acts more like her jailer than her roommate.

The undeniable attraction is underscored by the fact that Vic was Rosie’s secret pen pal while he was locked up in prison with her older brother. If either of them learn that Vic did this, he could lose them both, but he pushes through with the lie, to his detriment. He wants to be all of Rosie’s firsts, and her last.

Loaded with tropes (He Falls First, Forced Proximity, Brother’s Best Friend, Forbidden Romance, Pen Pals, Hidden Identity, Motorcycle Club, Protective MMC, Touch Her and Die, Found Family, Virgin FMC, Family Secrets, Lies and Deceit, and One Bed), this book delivers both on the spice and the yearning before it.

I loved this book and can’t wait for more from this author. I think I might now be a fan of Mafia romances.

All Your Firsts comes out on 6/1/2025. 5/5 Stars