Let the Game Begin
A Dark College Romance Full of Romantic Suspense (Kiss Me Like You Love Me Book 1)
Published on 26. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
720 pages
978-1-4642-4545-9 (ISBN)
Description
A bingeable dark college romance featuring a suspenseful cat-and-mouse subplot from Italian bestseller and BookTok sensation Kira Shell.
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Love the players. Hate the game.
Selene Anderson reluctantly moves to New York to live with her estranged father and his new family for her first year of college. She's immediately drawn to Neil Miller like a moth to a flame. Neil is the eldest son of her father's new wife, constantly battling a sinister past that gives him no respite. Selene would do anything to break down the walls Neil has built around his heart. But Neil is not ready to open up to anyone, believing himself to be too damaged to be loved.
As Selene and Neil wrestle with conflicting emotions and forbidden fantasies, in the shadows lurks Player 2511: a stalker looking for revenge against Neil. With his riddles, threats and attacks, the ruthless stranger drags Neil into a wicked game that he must play if he wants his family to live-and win if he wants a future with Selene.
Let the Game Begin is the first in Kiss Me Like You Love Me: a dark new adult romance series. It features mature themes and explicit content that may not be suitable for all audiences. Reader discretion is advised.
Tropes
Dark Romance
Forbidden Love
College Romance
Stepbrother
Romantic Suspense
This work has been translated with the contribution of the Centre for Books and Reading of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
***
Love the players. Hate the game.
Selene Anderson reluctantly moves to New York to live with her estranged father and his new family for her first year of college. She's immediately drawn to Neil Miller like a moth to a flame. Neil is the eldest son of her father's new wife, constantly battling a sinister past that gives him no respite. Selene would do anything to break down the walls Neil has built around his heart. But Neil is not ready to open up to anyone, believing himself to be too damaged to be loved.
As Selene and Neil wrestle with conflicting emotions and forbidden fantasies, in the shadows lurks Player 2511: a stalker looking for revenge against Neil. With his riddles, threats and attacks, the ruthless stranger drags Neil into a wicked game that he must play if he wants his family to live-and win if he wants a future with Selene.
Let the Game Begin is the first in Kiss Me Like You Love Me: a dark new adult romance series. It features mature themes and explicit content that may not be suitable for all audiences. Reader discretion is advised.
Tropes
Dark Romance
Forbidden Love
College Romance
Stepbrother
Romantic Suspense
This work has been translated with the contribution of the Centre for Books and Reading of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Sourcebooks, Inc
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 50 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4642-4545-9 (9781464245459)
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Person
Kira Shell is a bestselling Italian author with over 600,000 copies of her dark romances sold. She began writing the Kiss Me Like You Love Me series in 2017. The series has over 6 million Wattpad reads. Kira is a law graduate and lives in Italy.