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I Was First
Hayden Brandt
Everyone needs to shut the absolute hell up about me having a crush on Cameron Walsh. Yes, I have a crush on my friend. Yes, it’s embarrassing.
And, actually… way easier to get over than I thought, now that Cass, my crush since I was sixteen and still in braces, is suddenly looking at me like he wants to lift me into his lap.
He’s off-limits, though. He’s straight – I think. My older brother Hadley’s best friend. He’s my Resident Assistant in my dorm. He’s never shown interest in me before. In anyone, really.
Maybe all it takes is a few days camping in the woods with all of them to find out what’s in Cass’s pretty brain.
Lindsay Cass
I’m harboring a very unfortunate secret. My brotherly feelings toward my best friend’s younger brother? Yeah, not so brotherly anymore. Um… really not brotherly anymore.
I want him. I’m pretty sure I can have him. I’m absolutely sure the thought makes me want to vomit.
I can’t sleep with him, I just can’t. I have too much self-consciousness, too much self-hatred, too many scars.
Except for the first time in my life, those ugly feelings are being overshadowed by, as Dana Tamlin would say, an adorable ball of blond.
I want him.
Yeah. I think I’m gonna take him. Everything in my way can go to hell.
I Was First is a long MM romance between a bubbly, sweet lacrosse player and his high school crush - his older brother’s best friend, an insanely practical Resident Assistant who would maybe do anything if asked.
Book Two of the Baltic College Boys series, following Hayden and Cass, our most playful couple of them all.
Everyone needs to shut the absolute hell up about me having a crush on Cameron Walsh. Yes, I have a crush on my friend. Yes, it’s embarrassing.
And, actually… way easier to get over than I thought, now that Cass, my crush since I was sixteen and still in braces, is suddenly looking at me like he wants to lift me into his lap.
He’s off-limits, though. He’s straight – I think. My older brother Hadley’s best friend. He’s my Resident Assistant in my dorm. He’s never shown interest in me before. In anyone, really.
Maybe all it takes is a few days camping in the woods with all of them to find out what’s in Cass’s pretty brain.
Lindsay Cass
I’m harboring a very unfortunate secret. My brotherly feelings toward my best friend’s younger brother? Yeah, not so brotherly anymore. Um… really not brotherly anymore.
I want him. I’m pretty sure I can have him. I’m absolutely sure the thought makes me want to vomit.
I can’t sleep with him, I just can’t. I have too much self-consciousness, too much self-hatred, too many scars.
Except for the first time in my life, those ugly feelings are being overshadowed by, as Dana Tamlin would say, an adorable ball of blond.
I want him.
Yeah. I think I’m gonna take him. Everything in my way can go to hell.
I Was First is a long MM romance between a bubbly, sweet lacrosse player and his high school crush - his older brother’s best friend, an insanely practical Resident Assistant who would maybe do anything if asked.
Book Two of the Baltic College Boys series, following Hayden and Cass, our most playful couple of them all.
409 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 30, 2026
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