I am completely and utterly speechless. I didn't know what to expect when going in to First Touch, and everything about it, from beginning to end, took me completely by surprise. This book - Reeve and Emily's story - is intense. So intense, I had to put it down at some stages and just stop. I've read books darker than this one, but it was so different compared to Laurelin's other books that it really did take me by surprise, and at first, I didn't know how to feel about it. 
 Emily receives a call from an old friend, Amber, asking for help. Emily hasn't heard from Amber in years, but their past is what makes Emily need to help her; more, it's the fact that Amber used their safe word that's only to be used in case of emergencies, so Emily knows that Amber is in trouble, and so she's determined to find her and help her and get her out of whatever trouble she's in. But the last person seen with Amber is hotelier, Reeve Sallis, and when Emily puts herself in his line of sight and gets to know him better, she soon discovers that Reeve is a dangerous man. A very, very dangerous man - one she should be running from, but one who's touch she soon begins to crave. 
 This book, to me, really was intense, yet I was sucked in from the very beginning, but I had mixed feelings about it throughout. At first I loved this book, but as I was reading it, I went through stages of loving it, to hating it, to loving it again, and then back to hating it. I hated how weak Emily could be; hated how much of an ass Reeve was, and I hated the way he controlled her. I went from hating Reeve and Emily, to loving them; loving the way Reeve controlled her, because those scenes' were hot; loving how Reeve changed the more we got to know him; loving Emily's dedication to a friend she hadn't spoken to in years; loving them both - and everything about this book - in general. Then I went back to hating them; hating Emily's dedication to a friend she hadn't spoken to in years, and hating how Amber pushed Emily away - the cause of their lost friendship which, as I was reading it, had me shaking with fury. 
 But as much as I both loved and hated this book, I mostly loved it. We get some scenes where we're thrown into Emily's past, and we see how Emily and Amber meet, we see the journey they went on together, and we see how they created such a bond that, after years of not speaking, and with the way they parted ways, Emily still goes to help Amber when she needed it. And then we'd come back to the present where we see Emily fight her way to be with Reeve for Amber, so she can get the answers she needs to find her once best friend whilst also trying not to fall too deep with Reeve. 
 To me, this book was definitely different to Laurelin's other books. It was very erotic, and dark, and had the right amount of mystery added to keep me on the edge of my seat. And that ending... it left me in a state of shock, and then a sudden need to have Last Kiss in my hands. I was on such a rush after that ending; it came out of nowhere, and I did not expect it! Talk about cliffhangers... 
 I'll definitely be pre-ordering Last Kiss as soon as possible, because this book really was a mystery, and with how it ended... I have so many questions as to what has just happened and I need answers! I guess I'll just have to wait until June to finish this mysterious, unique, intense and addictive story, and I cannot wait. 
 ARC provided via Netgalley for honest review