Just a Touch Away

Author: Jae

Narrator: Abby Craden

Unabridged: 11 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/28/2023

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Lgbtq+, Contemporary Romance

Synopsis

An enemies-to-lovers lesbian romance with an ice queen whose frosty facade is melted by the power of touch.

Hannah Martin has an unusual job: she's a professional cuddler. While she has a big heart for her clients, she hasn't found someone special to snuggle up to in her personal life.

Winter Sullivan isn't looking for love. She's an aloof workaholic who's built walls of ice around herself. She would rather drive toothpicks under her fingernails than cuddle, and she certainly doesn't want to share her space with anyone.

When Winter's estranged father dies, he leaves her one last surprise: she and Hannah, a perfect stranger, will inherit a building together. But there's a catch: first, they have to live together for ninety-two days.

Winter is determined to dislike her rival, but soon finds Hannah isn't what she expected at all. Thanks to a hilarious doormat war, a cuddle dare from Winter's half sister, and a kiss in the most unusual of places, the frosty fortress around her heart begins to melt.

Will she be able to accept that love might be just a touch away?

Contains mature themes.

About Jae

Jae is the author of twenty-three award-winning lesbian romance novels. She lives in the sunniest city of Germany, near the French and Swiss borders. The writing bug bit her at the age of eleven.

She used to work as a psychologist but gave up her day job in 2013 to become a full-time writer and a part-time editor. As far as she's concerned, it's the best job in the world.

When she's not writing, she is an avid reader of lesbian books, indulges her ice cream and office supply addictions, and watches way too many crime shows.

Reviews

Goodreads review by pipsqueakreviews on September 27, 2022

Professional cuddling. One of the characters in this book is a professional cuddler, which is a real job according to Google. If I'm being honest, I'm not entirely comfortable with the concept of professional cuddling. I'm not big on hugs and touches unless it is with my girlfriend, so this could be......more

Goodreads review by Jude in the Stars on September 30, 2022

Winter and Hannah should never have met. The former is a forty-one-year-old workaholic, the latter a professional cuddler in her early thirties. They couldn’t be more different and even their relationships with the one person they have in common were entirely opposite. Winter’s late father has alway......more

Goodreads review by Leah on September 30, 2022

This was around 3.5 stars for me. I liked it in the end, but the beginning was a little rough. I felt the “opposites attract” was a little heavy handed with them being complete opposites with everything in their lives. Plus, them being forced to live together for an inheritance just made the whole f......more

Goodreads review by Gaby on August 29, 2022

Another entertaining story by Jae Jae is one of my auto-read authors who writes in a diversity of genres such as contemporary romance, suspense, paranormal, and historical fiction. If you are looking for slow-burn romances, you cannot go wrong with Jae. Hannah Martin is a professional cuddler. Winter......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on February 20, 2024

This was good, though I didn't buy the tropes. In the beginning, I felt like it was setup for a straight-forward age-gap Ice Queen romance. Or even a grump v sunshine. But those themes didn't really express very strongly. Take the age gap. Winter is forty to Hannah's thirty. But Winter's age sits lig......more