First Date (Fear Street, No. 16)

Fear Street — where your worst nightmares live... Chelsea is the typical shy girl. Always home on a Saturday night, she would give anything to have her first date. Finally, Chelsea's luck begins to change when two new guys move into town and both ask her out. Too bad that one of Chelsea's new boys has a terrible hobby — murder. Now Chelsea may be looking for love, but he's looking for a new victim. The Fear is Catching. Julia is getting married to Roman Sonntag, a man she has known less than a month. So big sister Sydney, an accountant in New Jersey, immediately travels to Fredericksburg, Texas, to talk some sense into her; and Sydney's own romantic misadventures start when Roman's best friend, Alex, overhears Sydney at her most scathing. Determined to teach her a lesson, Alex drags Sydney through a barnyard in the Texas heat before introducing her to Roman, cool and elegant in a designer business suit at his very prosperous vineyard. An embezzlement, Alex's struggle with his mother's early-onset Alzheimer's, and Sydney's unwillingness to admit, even to herself, that she is more than a little jealous of Julia's beauty and newfound self-confidence add depth to this contemporary romantic comedy, the first in the Bridesmaid Chronicles, a series of four by various authors Thrilled when two new boys in Shadyside begin vying for her attentions, the usually boyfriendless Chelsea Richards finds her joy turn to fear when the FBI informs her that they have tracked a psychotic killer to Shadyside. Chelsea is shy, lonely and looking for love. Then two new boys move into town and both ask her out. Too bad one of them is a crazed killer. Will her first date be her last date?