First-Time Caller

Aiden Valentine runs Heartstrings, Baltimore's radio romance hotline, and he has a problem: he no longer believes in love. He keeps up the act on air, but the job of coaxing callers toward happy endings has started to feel like a performance. Then a young girl phones in to ask for help finding a date for her mom, and the segment spreads far beyond the station's usual listeners. The mom is Lucie Stone, and until that broadcast she considered her life in good shape. She has a steady job, a close and loving family, and a clever, mischievous kid. Suddenly the whole city has opinions about her love life, or the lack of one, and Lucie starts to wonder whether being content is the same as being fulfilled. Maybe a bit more romance would not hurt. Everyone around her is rooting for her to find someone, including the moody, good-looking host who is steering the whole campaign. As the two spend more time working together behind the scenes, the tension between them turns into something neither expected. Lucie ends up choosing between the happily ever after the radio show has arranged for her and the man sitting beside her in the studio. First-Time Caller is a cozy, warm-hearted romance in the spirit of Sleepless in Seattle, with a cynical hero, a hopeful heroine, and a city listening in.