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Zeb Evans doesn't do messy. The product of a disorganised and chaotic childhood, Zeb likes order and control, and as the boss of his own employment agency he can give that to himself. Life runs along strict lines and he never mixes business with pleasure. Everything in his life lives in neat, alphabetized boxes. Until Jesse.Jesse Reed is Zeb's complete opposite. He's chaos personified. A whirling cyclone of disorder. He's also charming and funny and a very unwanted distraction.Which is why it comes as a complete surprise to Zeb to find himself asking Jesse to pose as his boyfriend for a few days in the country at a wedding. Zeb doesn't do impulsive, but as the time away progresses, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the merry and irreverent Jesse. But can he bring himself to break the hard-won lessons he's learnt in life? And even if he can, how could Jesse be attracted to him anyway? He's so much older than Jesse, not to mention being his boss.From the bestselling author of the Mixed Messages and Finding Home series comes a warm and funny romance about one man's fight for control and another man's determination to circumvent it.
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The one in which Mr 'I Can't Be With You' is somehow (surprise, surprise!) at the exact latitude and longitude to fuck.
Anyhoo.
MC 1 is 21 in the prologue and 24 for the rest of the book. Down bad for MC 2 who is 44. Keeps saying the older one is good and kind and honorable but there's a lot of telling and very little showing to back it up.
MC 2 is supposed to be this suave mature older guy who knows his own mind but does so much flip flopping about what he does or does not want, can or can not do, that it's really giving.....younger one was the mature one all along.
Otherwise not much angst. The grovel is meh, but then again so was the offense so I'll not go too hard on that.
Perfect for when you want to read but don't really have the energy to invest much thought into the book you're reading.
Bonus- maybe I'm getting used to Joel Leslie??? Idk. I didn't want to scrub my ears with bleach this time.
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3 primary books7 released booksClose Proximity is a 7-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Lily Morton.