Next of Kin (Next #1)
Hannah Bonam-Young
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars
3.81
· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 209 ratings · 297 pages · Published: 27 May 2022
When people-pleasing Chloe learns that her birth mother has unexpectedly had another baby, she doesn’t hesitate to become a next-of-kin guardian. But when she fails to pass Child Protective Services’ financial evaluation, she is faced with a choice: see her baby sister placed in foster care or participate in CPS’ new initiative, TeamUp.
Enter Warren, a surly mechanic’s apprentice attempting to get custody of his deaf fifteen-year-old brother after failing CPS’ housing evaluation. The two strangers immediately clash but agree to live together until Warren can find housing elsewhere and Chloe can further grow her freelance career.
As their lives intertwine, Chloe and Warren both realise that they’re far more similar than they could have imagined. What started as forced begins to feel natural—and far less lonely. Chemistry soon intensifies beyond what either of them can stand, but they must each decide if what burns between them is worth risking their arrangement.
With banter, heart, and steam that will have the reader blushing, NEXT OF KIN is a true underdog story of two young adults redefining what family can look like.
Content Warnings:
For adult readers only due to explicit (consensual) sexual content, child abandonment (referenced in memory), substance abuse and addiction (referenced, not described), foster care and adoption (theme throughout), references to anxiety (brief description of a panic attack), and death of a parent (referenced in memory).
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Tagged as:
- forced proximity 26
- grumpy & sunshine 22
- contemporary 22
- new adult 19
- single mother 16
- friends to lovers 14
- working class hero 14
- enemies to lovers 12
- funny 11
- grumpy/cold hero 11
- hurt/comfort 11
- single father 11
- independent heroine 10
- found family 9
- m-f romance 9
- competent heroine 8
- bad boys 7
- caretaking 6
- disabilities & scars 6
- insta-love 4
- tortured hero 4
- take-charge heroine 3
- sweet/gentle heroine 3
- height difference 2
- angst 1
- late 20s fmc 1
- late 20s mmc 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- substance abuse 13
- past child neglect 10
- alcoholism 6
- past abuse 4
- abuse 3
- mental trauma 3
- geography
- north america 5
- Format
- audiobook
- first person pov 8
- standalone 1
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The 'Next' series
3.94 · 361 ratings
contemporary · late-20s-mmc · working class hero · mental-trauma · standalone · first-person-pov · caretaking · north-america · late-20s-fmc · friends to lovers · grumpy sunshine · hurt-comfort · independent heroine · humor · forced proximity · standalone-first · height-difference · competent heroine · found-family · m-f
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