First Comes Like by Alisha Rai

 FIRST COMES LIKE – Alisha Rai

Modern Love, Book 3

Harper Collins

ISBN: 978-0-06-287815-1

February 16, 2021

Contemporary Romance

 

Los Angeles, California – Present Day

 

Beauty expert and internet influencer Jia Ahmed is normally too busy promoting her brand to worry about a man, but here she is at a party checking out Bollywood actor Dev Dixit. Several months ago, he’d slid into her DM’s on social media, tantalizing her with his interest in her. Now she’s crashing a party to meet him—and to confront him. Jia finally comes face to face with Dev and after she mentions how they know one another, he informs her that he doesn’t know her. How can this be true when they’d been texting back and forth all this time?

 

Dev is perplexed by Jia’s claims. He really hasn’t heard of her and yet she is in front of him claiming they’ve been texting for months. He tries to play it cool, not wanting to let her know he’s alarmed by her claims while he tries to figure out what happened. After questioning a couple of family members, he learns that his late brother logged into Dev’s social media account and started chatting with Jia. This brother is now dead, and another brother kept it up, a form of establishing a relationship called “catfishing.” It’s an embarrassment all around, and Dev feels like he needs to make it up to Jia for what his brothers did. Besides, he’s now more than a little interested in her…

 

Dev is new to Hollywood after years spent building a successful career in India. He comes from a legendary family of Bollywood actors and wants to make his own mark in America. He has custody of his late brother’s daughter, Luna, and they all live together along with his maternal uncle. Meanwhile, he meets up with Jia to explain what he found out about who was texting her. He needs to make it up to her for what happened. They end up going out a few times—as friends only—and discover a nice friendship. Could it end up being more than friendship?

 

Jia belongs to a traditional Muslim family and she is trying to make a name for herself in the beauty industry. Having Dev in her corner could prove beneficial, and she thought she was onto something when he started texting with her. But now that she is getting to know the real Dev Dixit, she likes what she sees. Their relationship builds slowly, but it soon is about to fast track in ways neither expects in FIRST COMES LIKE by Alisha Rai.

 

A tale that is cute and funny, with modern love thrown in, FIRST COMES LIKES is set around the Hollywood Hot Set. Despite Dev’s fame being mostly in India, his family’s reputation, power, and money have the paparazzi chasing after any scandal they can dig up about him. This is why the “catfishing” done by his brothers with Jia needs to be kept hidden. She is a nice girl, anyway, and Dev will do whatever it takes to make it up to her. Will they soon be in love?

 

For an engaging romantic tale about love in the twenty-first century, be sure to grab a copy of FIRST COMES LIKE.

 

Patti Fischer