Falling in Love for the First Time

Falling in Love for the First TimeIn a bustling Brooklyn coffee shop, twenty-two-year-old Steve Johnson is stuck in the same routine—until Sanjana walks in and claims table four.Sanjana is a Nepali graphic design student on a student visa, far from the mountains and festivals of home, pouring her heart into a restaurant logo that must feel like "e;home but modern."e; Steve knows nothing about design, but he knows how to listen. What starts as one small cup of Nepali tea slowly brewed the right way becomes daily conversations, walks across the Brooklyn Bridge, autumn afternoons in Central Park, and an invitation to a vibrant Nepali festival in Queens.As Steve begins to see the world through Sanjana's eyes—and signs up for his first design class to understand the stories she tells with color and shape—their friendship deepens into a gentle, slow-burn first love. But Sanjana's visa ends in eight months. She must decide whether she can build a real life in New York… and whether Steve fits into that future.Tender, heartfelt, and quietly hopeful, this clean contemporary romance celebrates the beauty of listening, the courage of starting over, and the quiet magic of falling in love for the first time—across cultures, across a city, and across one small coffee-shop table.Perfect for fans of slow-burn multicultural love stories and wholesome New York romances.