Nora Clarke and Will Sterling are new apartment neighbours in Love at First by Kate Clayborn ($10) who are equally at odds with one another as they are drawn to one another. She wants to keep her close-knit community of residents the same as its been since her childhood, while he has plans to turn his inherited apartment into a rental unit. As Nora resists change and Will pushes for it, it won't take long for them to realise that the reason they're so drawn to each other has actually been 16 years in the making.
Why It's Memorable: Will and Nora's connection is insanely romantic in a tender, quiet way. The sex scene is written from Will's point of view, and it's a testament to Kate Clayborn's poetic writing that you can just feel how Nora consumes his every thought.
Favourite Line: "But then she walked by him, her legs bare, the back of one thigh pink from where his hand had been holding her, and to him it might as well have been another command. That looked the same as having the words follow me whispered right into his ear. He'd never really thought of himself as a man who liked to be bossed around during sex, but damn if he didn't walk toward the cool, dark quiet of Nora's bedroom and want her to tell him every single thing she wanted him to do, exactly how she wanted him to do it."
Spice Level: 🔥