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  • Close Proximity, Book 1
  • By: Lily Morton
  • Narrated by: Joel Leslie
  • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (27 ratings)

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Best Man

By: Lily Morton
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Publisher's Summary

Zeb Evans doesn’t do messy.  

The product of a disorganized 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 best-selling 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.

This is the first book in the Close Proximity series, but it can be listened to as a standalone.

©2019 Lily Morton (P)2021 Lily Morton

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Fiery!

One of my favourite things about Lily's books is her casual environmental descriptions. In this book, it's the smell of oranges for Zeb and green tea for Jesse. These descriptions evoke such personal connotations to the characters that we as readers can't help but engage on a more personal level.
This story is fiery and passionate as well as showcasing fragile and flawed characters who appear well put together on the outside. A great read and brought to life superbly by Joel Leslie's wonderful narration.

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Another smart and funny Lily Morton romance!

Jesse Reed is young, messy, snarky, and fun - the perfect foil to Zeb Evan’s older, buttoned-down politeness. When Jesse talks his way into a job with Zeb’s agency, there are sparks but both men keep things professional until Zeb asks Jesse to act as his fake boyfriend at his ex-boyfriend’s wedding. While the fake relationship, forced-proximity, and odd-couple tropes are well-trodden roads, the wit and humour were wonderfully refreshing - it was just so fun to read and I can’t wait for more in the series! Audio narrator Joel Leslie’s English voices were charming and charismatic with excellent comedic expression.

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