First love.

Those two words conjure so much possibility in the young and stoke memories in the young-at-heart. So much excitement. So much hope. There’s nothing more compelling than new love, nothing like that first fierce falling.  First love often comes sudden and sweet, hitting like a breathless dagger, sharp with longing. 

Sarah Collier learns at fifteen the sorrow of a hungry heart  when she makes a fool of herself in front of the whole town of Twilight as she tries to stop the man she loves from marrying another woman.

When I wrote that opening scene I thought of every teen who had ever loved amiss and in it I felt her shame. But unlike many of us, Sarah gets a second chance at her first love. It’s a romantic and enduring notion””the idea that first love never really dies””and I had a lot of fun exploring that in The First Love Cookie Club.

So what about you? Do you ever think about your first love? Are the memories happy or melancholy? Do you ever think, “what if”? Or did you marry your first love and live happily ever after? Or if you’ve yet to meet that first love, what are your favorite “first love” romance stories?

Drop a line and tell us about it in comments for a chance to win a 12-month membership to this cookie club.